Thanks, Texas, for restoring our signal, and for your comments.
Ferlin Husky is great, but you sent me searching.
Ferlin Eugene Husky was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky honk, ballads, spoken recitations, and rockabilly pop tunes.
Hard to believe that Johnny did that one about Roberta Flack, and that Roberta did it for Don McLean.
How about a bit of etymology on hill billy.
Many words commonly used in America today such as Hillbillies and Rednecks have their origins in our Scottish roots. While the following three terms are associated today with the American South and southern culture, their origins are distinctly Scottish and Ulster-Scottish (Scots-Irish), and date to the mass immigration of Scottish Lowland and Ulster Presbyterians to America during the 1700’s.
Talk about synchronicity.
Here is another billy(no, not goat) group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enZraTGenGE&feature=related