No, Foolsetroupe, he wore black. All black. He probably even had black underwear. He was emulating another one of his heroes, Johnny Cash. He was also crazy about Stompin' Tom Connors and he had every Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Stompin' Tom record ever made. But get this: in no sense whatsoever was he a typical "country music" type of person. Not in the least. Far from it. He wrote weird avante-garde modern poetry, smoked the odd cigar, was into fine wines, and adopted a style which I think could best be described as romantic/tragic modernist urban poet. If it had been the 1950s instead of the 1990s, he would have made the perfect wacky beatnik performance artist, hanging out at the coffeehouses and performing poetry that was largely incomprehensible but very, very cool.

He was also a born-again Christian, and he liked the band "Dead Can Dance" and had a thing for Leonard Cohen and Tom Waites too.

He put on 3 plays about Hank Williams in this town, and starred in all of them. He also ran for city council once, but didn't make it.