America does need to come up to the mountains to deal with some issues. |
I found myself in the South. I got picked up by somebody and made a joke about how dangerous it is to hitchhike with hillbillies. He told me to get out. |
It will be like an old-fashioned radio show. Appalachia is a crossroads of music, especially African-American. It's beyond your imagination what came out of there. |
It's not just a backwoods of white, lanky mountaineers. In fact, it's been much more of a crossroads of integration and coming together of many different cultures there. |
My whole thesis is that you can't understand America until you understand Appalachia. |
The whole point is why the mountains, the land, still determines our culture. The mountains sort of drive how we live. |
To me the clash of that culture is the beauty of Appalachia. |
We need to try to live in sync with our geography. |