Doug Wilhite: The Arkansas Blues Man Who Found His Home in East Tennessee
Blount County Live por Let's Be Blount
Notas del episodio
Lee and Scott sit down with Doug Wilhite, and if you're looking for someone who knows how to turn a rainy day into a hit song, this is your guy. This Helena, Arkansas native (that's the home of the blues, folks) moved to Tennessee in 2017 and immediately found his tribe at Brackin's Wednesday night jam sessions with Barry Swartz and Stan Giber.
Doug opens with "Too Wet to Plow," a rollicking tale of farming, moonshining, and Sheriff Crow that came about when his wife Kathy said those exact words on a day they couldn't go hiking. The song weaves in the story of Kathy's grandfather, who was sheriff in Monroe County during Prohibition and hated busting moonshine stills because he knew that's how families fed themselves. It's the kind of authentic storytelling that makes you want to grab a mason jar and head for the hills.
Then Doug perfo ...