Whippin' The Devil

In 1925, Guy Roberts was an impressionable 15 year old working in the pool halls of Pound, Virginia, racking games and selling moonshine whiskey. During the 1930s he took to hauling moonshine over the mountain to Kentucky. After taking part in a robbery he was forced to flee across America on the lam. The video weaves together Guy's descriptions of his journey, family photographs, and the banjo music of Dock Boggs, including the song "Prodigal Son." Like the young man in the parable, Guy returned home, faced his punishment, and "lived a good life."

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• appalshop
• tony
• slone
• pound
• virginia
• bootlegging
• moonshine
• police
• outlaw
• family

[WheresPoochie]

Very interesting, though I have no clue what it is. I just found this when searching for clips of Halan County USA. Would Anyone mind telling me what this video is about and where it is from?

[Appalshop]

This is a clip from a film produced by Appalshop. Go to appalshop dot org and look at the hundreds of films they've produced about the Appalachian region.

[byan70]

i love real people and music

[Elkins2424]

you can see the pain in this old mans eyes as he talks about his mother and father...this is sad really what people had to do to make a living back then...my grandpa has told me all about it.

[dsk808ATgmailc0M]

@Elkins2424 and you know so little like yours morning shit

[redbulljustice99]

reminds me of my pow paw from the good ol appalachians in ky we live in mi now for work but my family remaned like this never changed that appalachian style

[ThePuzzler81]

In 50 years or so Islam will be quite large, christianity will be widdled down to small groups of people like this, tucked away in the hills reading their cultish little bible and secular Atheists will still be on the front lines, trying defend the freedoms we enjoy in a free society from the same old religious people that would love nothing more than to destroy it, destroy it. Open a history book, read about life when the religious were in control and never make that mistake again people.

[navertjarnskojan]

Music is I.D Stamper.

[ObaNarayanShivaji999]

Thank you!

[DesolateDawn]

Does anyone know what the song is in this clip?

[pathfinderdaddy]

I've been a moonshiner for many a year

I've spent all me money on whiskey and beer

I'll go to some hollow, I'll set up my still

And I'll make you a gallon for a ten shilling bill

I'll go to some hollow in this count-er-y

Ten gallons of wash I can go on a spree

No women to follow, the world is all mine

I love none so well as I love the moonshine

[sawzall666]

tastes nothing like that, smooth and strong best cold.