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Hillbilly Highlander
@hillhighlander.bsky.social
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I'm a hillbilly from Kentucky with a home in the Scottish Highlands. Retired Navy Band. Happily married father of two adult kids. VERY liberal. Avid hillwalker and photographer.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 14h
Excellent sound system too!! They were rockin' classical music all day.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 14h
It was built in the late nineteenth century as a railroad bridge, went out of use in the sixties and was reopened as a foot bridge in 2013.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
You couldn't just walk into a music store and buy steel band stuff back then, we had to make it ourself, and that includes ALL the sheet music as well. We wrote and or arranged all of it!
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
I did at the last pow-wow I danced at. I played Amazing Grace during grand entry, after the prayer, with a lovely Seneca woman singing the song in her peoples tongue.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
You can't just walk into a music store and buy this stuff! We used surgical rubber tubing on dowels for the smaller pans mallets. Did all our own arrangements, too! (Couldn't buy them back then either!)
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
Glenfinnan, and yes, very Scottish. The Scottish craft beer and craft gin scene is off the chain, hell, I've had Scottish craft absinthe distilled on Loch Ness! Efes is a pretty hard beer to come by; I can only find it one place: The Moorings Turkish Restaurant in Ft. Augustus.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
Thanky kindly! I'm watching the drum keeper for hand signals and cues. The universal signal for "this is the last verse, end it," is to point your index finger down at the drum, then open your hand and sweep it to the side.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
This memory just popped: this is me playing six barrel basses in the U.S. Navy Steel Band. Fun fact: I made those mallets using two pieces of dowel rod and two rubber baseballs with the skin sanded off!
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
A wee little sod must huv taken this photie of me. Ah look fourteen feet tall!
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 15h
One of my favourite things about pow-wows was the honour of being allowed to sit in on a drum and sing. This is me singing with the Southern Traditional drum, Skyhawk. Someone had a whoop ass zoom, all's I'm sayin'.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
I've learned that my favourite beers are malty, not hoppy. It's been my experience that hoppy beers tend to be fruity and bitter. As for ales, gie's a guid Newcastles Ale ony day! I like the crisp, clean finish of lagers and pilseners. A favourite beer of mine is the Turkish pilsener Efes.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Aye, he kens a mechanical bean flicker whaun he sees ain!!🤣🤣
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
If I go from my resting grouch face to this face a little too quickly, it can cause small children to cry and pregnant women to go into premature labour. Consume me with caution, I guess.😜
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Here's a socially distant hug for anyone who may be needing one.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Riiiiiiight... a gum massager.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Oh, no you didn't! Gonna split hell wide open.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Quoth the raven, "Spinach shins!"
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Here's a craft beer taste test for you.

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#42 Glen Finnan Gold Single Malt Ale
YouTube video by Hillbilly Highlander
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
I couldn't believe the swamps; reminded me of New Orleans.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Ah'd highly recommend the smoked paprika creme fraiche with dill and parsley for dippin' yir tatties!! That wis braw scran!
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Oof, it's been ages since I've been in Western Kentucky!
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Here's a contribution from me for Scotstober: my very favourite reading of Robert Burns, "Address To A Haggis." I attended my first Burns Supper at the community hall in Invergarry, our wee village.
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ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS BY ROBERT BURNS. ACTOR GARETH MORRISON buymeacoffee.com/GarethMorrisonActor
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
Ah'm gettin' ready tae post ma favourite readin' of "Address To A Haggis" for "Scotstober."
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h
We'd just call that "chicken fried steak!"😜
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