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Here come the Hatfields & McCoys

March 12, 2012, by JimC

My Frontier Partisan heart beat a little faster at the release of the trailer for the History Channel’s miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys,” due out Memorial Day. (Not least because of the potent, dark stomp of the song that plays over it: “Bartholomew” by The Silent Comedy). Watch it here.

This is one of the great American stories — the facts being more interesting by far than the stereotype-laden folklore that has accreted around it. I read a fair bit about the feud back in college and I’m going to refresh my knowledge before I watch the movie.

Coincidentally, I just picked up Sharyn McCrumb’s new book, “The Ballad of Tom Dooley,” a novel based on the 1866 murder immortalized in the famous folk song (Doc Watson’s version is preferred to the Kingston Trio’s). All this and “Justified” — I’m on a bit of an Appalachian binge.

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  1. LynnW says

    March 19, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    I can tell from that visual and auditory bait on “Hatfields & McCoys,” I’m gonna either love it or hate it. Can’t wait to find out.

    I’m really fond of Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown’s version of Tom Dula. A Tom Russell-ish rendition, harking back to the song’s roots. Perhaps you can find a link to a listen somewhere, I just spent 15 minutes looking to no avail, sorry, really wanted to share that with you.

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