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Originally Posted by Brianna

However, I have been told that all those damn hillbillys in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, etc. are Scotch-Irish descendants

We are indeed, and don't forget Welsh. We Appalachian folk are mostly descended from indentured servants and undersirables that the Brits wished to be done with before Australia was invented. Mountain music has strong roots in Scottish and Irish folk music of old, and many traditional songs were actually preserved in a purer form than they were in the Old Country. I came to C/W via my Grandmother's singing of traditional ballads and hymns from the Southern Mountains and graduated to Blue Grass early on. Doc Watson and Vasser Clements! The Country Station on cable makes me break out in hives. Turn the channel to Austin City Limits. You can often catch some fine picking and grinning on that show.