June 26, 2011

In 1996, folk singer-songwriter Jimmy Driftwood of Mountain View (Stone County) became one of the first inductees into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame. Driftwood rose to national fame when Johnny Horton recorded his song “The Battle of New Orleans” in 1959, but he nonetheless stayed for the most part in his native Stone County and worked toward preserving the musical heritage of the mountain people.