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2010-03-14 18:31:03 UTC
"Chasing the White Dog - An American Outlaw's Adventures in
Moonshine" by Max Watman (Amazon.com: http://tr.im/WhiteDog)
(Wall Street Journal) - It was years after my first taste
of moonshine that I managed to find the words to describe
how it felt when the whiskey took hold. The revelation came
courtesy of a 1928 record by the Fruit Jar Guzzlers,
hillbilly musicians from the mountains of West Virginia who
knew of what they sang:
"One drop will make a rabbit whup a bulldog and a taste
will make a rat whup a wild hog
It'll make a mouse bite off a tomcat's tail and make a
tadpole raise a fuss with a whale."
Sounds like the stuff I had, I said to myself, as one of
the Guzzlers blurted out between verses: "Gimme another
drink of that corn liquor, Henry!"
Plenty of hard alcohol carries a high-proof kick, of
course. Moonshine has an added mystique that can bewitch
its fans—and stir a writer like "Chasing the White Dog"
author Max Watman to set out in search of modern backwoods
distillers...
Continued: http://tr.im/RPfe
Book excerpt: http://tr.im/RPfw
Moonshine" by Max Watman (Amazon.com: http://tr.im/WhiteDog)
(Wall Street Journal) - It was years after my first taste
of moonshine that I managed to find the words to describe
how it felt when the whiskey took hold. The revelation came
courtesy of a 1928 record by the Fruit Jar Guzzlers,
hillbilly musicians from the mountains of West Virginia who
knew of what they sang:
"One drop will make a rabbit whup a bulldog and a taste
will make a rat whup a wild hog
It'll make a mouse bite off a tomcat's tail and make a
tadpole raise a fuss with a whale."
Sounds like the stuff I had, I said to myself, as one of
the Guzzlers blurted out between verses: "Gimme another
drink of that corn liquor, Henry!"
Plenty of hard alcohol carries a high-proof kick, of
course. Moonshine has an added mystique that can bewitch
its fans—and stir a writer like "Chasing the White Dog"
author Max Watman to set out in search of modern backwoods
distillers...
Continued: http://tr.im/RPfe
Book excerpt: http://tr.im/RPfw