New Video - John Brown Before Parole Board!

..."I cannot imagine me doing it, but I done it" - John Brown before the Parole Board 2011...

Opponents and advocates for John A. Brown's Release Speak Out In Front Of Tennessee Board of Parole

Remembering Stringbean (June 17, 1915–November 10, 1973)

Remembering Stringbean on what would have been his 96th birthday today!    

Born David Akeman, he was a banjo player and comedy musician best known for his role on the hit television show, Hee Haw, and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.  Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973.

Akeman came from a musical Kentucky family and was taught to play banjo by his father. He traded a pair of prize bantam chickens for his first real banjo at the age of 12 and began playing local dances where he developed a reputation but could not earn a living as a musician.