Note of personal and related interest:
Festus is from the Fresno suburb where I live. Clovis, California.
They even got a statue of the bumpkin downtown, that's how lame Clovis is.
that “bumpkin” was a fine singer before he becamse Festus....
My uncle lives in Clovis and was working in fresno.
More note of personal and whatever interest... My grandparents lived in Clovis. Their house is/was became a nursery with two huge giant palm trees in front. Probably gone now.
Petey