Where Country Music Comes From
By raincoasterApparently, country music comes from Hartman, Arkansas. How appropriate.
A twelve year old and his ten year old sidekick got “liquored up,” stole his father’s truck, set off in search of a girl they’d met at the rodeo, jumped a guardrail, and ended up at the bottom of a hill in an Ozark forest in the middle of the night.
From the Modesto Bee:
Clark James, 46, who lives down the road from the crash site, said he answered the boys’ banging at his front door with shotgun in hand about 2:30 a.m.
“I opened the door and the first thing (the 12-year-old) said to me was, ‘I’m drunk and I had a wreck,’” James said. “I looked at him and I thought ‘You’re kind of young to be out drinking. And you sure shouldn’t be driving.’..”
Teresa Belew, executive director of the Arkansas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the 12-year-old is the youngest person she’s heard of facing a drunken-driving charge in the state.
James bets that both Johnson County boys are grounded for life.
“If not, then they should be,” he said.
How long till they get a movie deal and an interminable Kenny Chesney song?
May 21st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I keep trying to defend the south having been born and bred below the Mason-Dixon but this shit keeps the ideal of ignorant, inbred, rednecks in the public eye. It’s like saying everyone from Harlem is gangsta, all Californians are valley girls or surfers and (I was about to say something about Republicans and remembered the prior mess) all New Yorkers are Mafia connected. My parents would have beat the crap outta us! Driving on government highways before 13???!! Gettin caught!! Drunk!! We all know if you’re drinkin’ and drivin’ you take back dirt roads. If you wreck, walk away, just walk away….
May 21st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Jennie, I just snorted my tea out of my nose after reading that.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Jennie, do you need an intro to a Nashville producer? I think you’ve got what it takes.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
@raincoaster Only if they like dogs, trains, Budweiser, pickups, honky tonks, and infidelity… Glinda, Thanx!
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:26 am
How’s your hair? Is it really tall and crispy?
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
No, I never got on board with the big hair and laquered look. Now I do have relatives that have the bigass hair bump and use a can of Aquanet a day while clinching a cigarette between their lips and doing the Tammy Faye to their face…
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
That only counts if the cigarette is menthol.
The higher the hair, the closer to God!
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 am
I give it two years, one year (with bonus points) if it’s the boys who write the song.