1962 Wolverton Mountain

Did he have a pretty young daughter by chance?

I don’t care about Clifton Clowers
I’m gonna climb up on his mountain

Yep very interesting story.

The song was written by Merle Kilgore who was Hank Jr's longtime manager. Clowers was Kilgore's uncle.

From wikipedia:

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Clifton T. Clowers was born on October 30, 1891, at Center Ridge, Arkansas, son of Thomas Jefferson Clowers and Mary Prince Clowers. In July 1919, he married Esther Bell. He was a veteran of World War I and a deacon in the Mountain View Baptist Church. He was immortalized by the success of "Wolverton Mountain". He lived most of his life on a small farm located on the northern edge of Woolverton Mountain. According to one of his grandchildren, Clowers wished that Kilgore had not suggested in the song that he threatened his daughter's suitors with a gun and a knife, saying, "I never used those tools for that purpose, I just used them to hunt and whittle.”

On his 100th birthday Clowers was visited by both writers of the song, King and Kilgore. Clowers died at the age of 102 on August 15, 1994, at his home in Clinton, Arkansas, and was buried at the Woolverton Mountain Cemetery.

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I was in a relationship for two years (well, not really a relationship - we were married), with an attractive woman (pics posted in 2013), and she claimed to be the niece of Claude King, who recorded Wolverton Mountain, and that it was supposed to be based on her family. She also claimed to have fricked OJ Simpson and several other celebrities. That's all I have to contribute to this thread.