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Jackson Brower: MadDog is favorite Backyard Oil character Jackson Brower announces his favorite Backyard Oil Character: Rascal Flatt, but he didn't think second episode measured up to first. Thinks MadDog, Jimmy Reliford and Travis Coomer would all be nice people to hang around the Circle R with. And - for those of those who don't know this is a comedy and not a documentary - the revelation that this is acting, leaving the writers and production people a lot of leeway with authenticity - especially with Amish, price Jimmy Reliford got for mineral water. Hopes Norman Hoover hits it big. (A side note: Richie Janes, in town Tuesday, reported that Gradyville, KY, remains the Adair County, Kentucky Petroleum Capital, with a new strike down the hill from his house or Corbin-Richards Road). How important is Backyard Oil in Adair County, now? People run their time by it. The Hospital Board meeting, to most, wasn't at 6:30pmCT, it was "Two and a half hours before Backyard Oil." (About the best internet reporter on the planet, David Wells, left his post at the Hospital Board meeting before some of the good stuff happened there, to go warm up the Tv and get ready to watch "his show." That's how pervasive the show has become) - CM By Jackson Brower Contributing CM Tv Critic, Pennsyltuckian, late of Barnett's Creek The entertaining series Backyard Oil filmed in Adair County went straight downhill last night. It looked like it was thrown together in a hurry with lots of scenes from the first episode cut and pasted into the second. My favorite character is definitely Rascal who, despite newfound oil wealth lives in a humble abode out in the boondocks with his pretty wife who continually smiles, and never says a word. Wouldn't we all like to have wives like that? (just kidding). MadDog, Jimmy Reliford and Travis Coomer are also really nice people, as well, who anyone would enjoy sitting around drinking coffee with at the Circle R. They all have great senses of humor. What struck me as odd was the character Amish Dan. The Amish folks were my neighbors in Pellyton, and I never heard any of them speaking with a southern accent, even 2nd generation "Kentucky born" Amish. I couldn't feel sorry for Dan when they hit a dry hole, because I would be willing to bet that he was an actor. Unless they have changed their religious policy recently, they would never permit any members to be photographed,, let alone filmed for a TV series. Remember, Ed, when you sent me out to Pellyton to get the scoop on their arrival from Pennsylvania around 1977? They were very personable folks but would not even allow me take pictures of their horses and buggies. Perhaps Dan, in the episode, was a genuine Amish breakaway. Another that that was hard to swallow (no pun intended) was when they hit mineral water and MadDog starts swilling from the drilling pipe like he was out at Henry Giles Spout Springs. Under ordinary conditions at larger drilling companies that would have been a flagrant violation of environmental/safety regulations, and he would have been fired on the spot. Also hard to believe (although it may indeed be true) is that Reliford got a better price for mineral water than Kentucky Crude. It was interesting that they successfully drilled on the Hoover property out in Chance. Why were no Hoover family members included in the filming? Maybe Norman changed his ways and joined up with the real Amish adhering to their precept of not allowing themselves to be photographed. He was actually probably hiding out in his cabin trying to avoid the Hollywood-like brouhaha. I hope he was the Hoover who cashed in on the oil hit. If so, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy, one of many in good old Adair County Kentucky. - Jackson Brower This story was posted on 2013-05-01 03:36:20
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