calsfoundation@cals.org
January 3, 2010
In 1996, folk singer and songwriter Jimmy Driftwood of Mountain View (Stone County) became one of the first to be inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame. Driftwood rose to fame when Johnny Horton recorded his song “The Battle of New Orleans” in 1959, but he nonetheless generally stayed in his native Stone County and worked toward preserving the musical heritage of his fellow mountain people.