Jesco White

Jesco is also mentioned in the lyrics of the new Big & Rich song "Coming To Your City" although Jesco says he's never met them. "Hank III's a good friend of mine and has been up here to see me and play music with me, but I've never met Big & Rich in my life." says White. "They never even called me to say hello or sent a card or anything."

Quotes from Jesco documentaries

• "And I took the butcher knife and put up to her neck. I said if you want to live to see tomorrow, you better start frying them eggs a little better than what you frying. I'm tired of eating sloppy, slimy eggs."

• "You're gonna go to bed alright, you're gonna go to bed in a coffin!"

• "...Cuz all I want is good honest dancin', and people to enjoy their selves."

• "Anyone will say anything under the influence of madness."

• "Yeah, I've threatened your life a many a time to get your mouth to shut up. I mean I've told you I'd blow your brains plumb into that river bank over there just to get you to quit arguing and trying to get ahead of me."

• "Marriage is a wonderful thing, but you get a lot of little things with it. It's not perfect. But they's love in it, they's happiness in it, but there's also sorrow, hatred and madness in it."

• "I got a double super buzz."

Jesco White was first profiled on the Public Broadcasting Service's "A Different Drummer" Series. Because of his popularity, PBS eventually released two documentaries about Jesco. The first was The Dancing Outlaw (1991), directed by Jacob Young (documentarian), which featured him at home in West Virginia and gave audiences a glimpse into his troubled life.

As the popularity of The Dancing Outlaw grew, he was asked by comedian Tom Arnold to perform on the television show Roseanne. He travelled to Los Angeles for the performance, which was chronicled in the 1994 short film Dancing Outlaw 2: Jesco goes to Hollywood - directed by the original's Jacob Young.