I put the show together because it's important to me, and Jesco is my friend. I think he deserves a chance for people to see him and see his talent for what it is. › What: Snake Blood Medicine ...

"White Lightnin' " takes hillbilly chic as far as it can go. British commercials director Dominic Murphy dives into Appalachian poor-white-trash communities like a sex tourist newly arrived in Bangkok ...

Did that really happen? The Spin actually sat still for two whole hours Wednesday night. We didn't know we could hold our piss for two hours — until Neil Young taught us over the course of a hypnotic ...

The Spin made it to the Exit/In in time to catch the acts that opened for the legendary West Virginia dancer and vocalist Jesco White, and the evening turned into something far more interesting than ...

When West Virginia's Jesco White agreed to be profiled for an episode of the PBS-TV series "Different Drummer" in 1991, he expected a simple, music-video document of the tap-dancing skills he then ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

HOLDEN — Jesco White, known as West Virginia’s “dancing outlaw,” was released on bond from the Southwestern Regional Jail on Wednesday morning, according to the jail’s booking records. White, 52, was ...

Dir: Dominic Murphy. UK. 2008. 90mins. White Lightnin’ is Dominic Murphy’s fictional tribute to the dancer and violent career criminal Jesco White; it manages to include every negative stereotype ...

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, in a battered trailer, abides living legend Jesco White, 'the dancing outlaw'. As a ...

WHITE LIGHTNIN’ DIRECTED BY Dominic Murphy STARRING Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher There are six “Notable Residents” listed on the Wikipedia page for Bandytown, a 100-strong community in the Appalachian ...

In the early ’90s, back when “going viral” meant you had to hook up two VCRs to dub 8th generation copies of cult classics, a curious piece of Americana brought a little heaven and hell in the ...