Fed up with Hogg, the citizens demand he reverse his dry county policy and free all the people he had arrested for selling moonshine.
Eventually, farmers struggled to break even, and in the late 19th century began to supplement their income by selling moonshine.
His father was a church deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned his own nightclub, the Tip In Inn.
He served some time for selling moonshine, and in 1926 he lost his eyesight because of glaucoma.
Many claim it was named after a black woman who sold moonshine to miners while others say that "Black Betsy" was the moonshine itself.
"He worked in the pharmacy, selling moonshine to certain preferred customers," Mr. Guthrie says, "and he offered to paint the sign."
Speakeasies throughout the eastern United States sold moonshine made in Buffalo City.
In 1953, 10-year-old Larry Flynt (Block) is selling moonshine in Kentucky.
Takes the side of Granpap for selling moonshine to make money.
The song describes progressive attempts to sell Colombian marijuana, Spanish cocaine and Tennessean moonshine to a recovered addict who refuses it all.