Country Miles Are Longer Than City Miles: An Important Document in the Art and Social History of Americana

Unplug the clock. Turn off the television. Put a stack of John Hartford albums on the stereo. Sit back and take a trip to the hills of eastern Kentucky.

Come meet other real people among the hills, but dont expect to see any stereotypes of hillbillies or moonshine stills.

His tribute to these gentle people is, in the best sense, poetic. His writing flows like a creek running down the piney mountains.

Royce has given the world an impressive record of one of the last remnants of American c...