Race Relations after the Civil War. By the time Twain was writing Huckleberry Finn in the early 1880s, the United States was redefining itself as a nation postwar and postslavery.ace Relations after the Civil War. By the time Twain was writing Huckleberry Finn in the early 1880s, the United States was redefining itself as a nation postwar and postslavery.
Whiskeytown was an alternative country band formed in 1994 from Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Fronted by Ryan Adams, the group included members Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Eric Skillet Gilmore, and Mike Daly. They disbanded in 2000 with Adams leaving to pursue his solo career. Whiskeytown gradually expanded its sound outside the confines of alternative country while still maintaining its alternative roots.
As a young child, Ryan was known to be obsessed with poetry and cult fiction, enjoying the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Hubert Selby and Henry Miller. When his parents brought him an electric guitar for his fourteenth birthday he played it constantly and ended up joining a local band called Blank Label.