hillbilly

Stewart didn’t go for polyester suits or arenas, preferring the rough and rowdy “skull orchards” around Fort Pierce where he could alternate between hillbilly rock and progressive bluegrass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The music he made came from Mexico, and it came from Los Angeles, where 1940s Spanish-language swing tunes, Black doo-wop sounds and hillbilly guitar-plucking were mashed together in a molcajete y tejolote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

He’s a hillbilly, an elegist, and a Yale Law School graduate.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025

Mr Walz becomes the second running mate with claimed ancestry from the island in this year's presidential election, after Donald Trump announced 'Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart' JD Vance as his pick for vice-president.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024

My sister Lillian was in high school and singing with a hillbilly band called The Sierra Stars—jeans, cowboy hats, two guitars, and a tub bass.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

"It's cool there's a spot for hillbillies like me," says Top.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

Others accepted Vance but don’t like him, mainly because his book criticizes hillbillies for their “bad choices” and flawed culture and celebrates his own desperate escape out of it.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

“The people up here, even the hillbillies like me, we would go down with our guns and stand outside the front gate of Islamberg to protect them,” Lonsberry said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019

Li’l Abner Musical Theatre West offers a staged reading of this musical adaptation of the Al Capp comics about the lives of hillbillies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2016

With just 10 days left, few self-described hillbillies in southwest Virginia are undecided.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2012