When I was a kid in WV, we memorized his stories the way a later cohort would memorize Monty Python skits.

My wife and I still quote him on occasion, "Hair, teeth, and eyeballs all over the road." "no I ain't et yet", "lift and eat fast lest it fall through the crust".....

We bought CD versions of the LPs a few years ago. A nostalgia binge.

It is true that you can't go home, but we still enjoyed most of them.
Some didn't wear well, some did.

While on a drive one day we played a few cuts for our daughter and her husband. There was absolute silence from the back seat. Guess you had to be there.

Although I was a kid in WV I wasn't stupid or naive or ignorant of the larger world I was living in. I didn't hear the racism then, and still don't hear it. Especially compared to some of the Warner Brothers cartoons that were still being aired.

Russ (Permanent GUEST)