Down in rural Tennessee, place names often arose from the activities that occurred there: Whetstone Mountain, Poorhouse Branch, Tater Hill, Washboard Creek. If this folk etymology holds, it makes you wonder what was going on in Sweet Lips, Finger, and Hookers Bend. Each of these locations lends its name to a song on Sir Richard Bishop’s newest album, Hillbilly Erotica — the title of which suggests that he knows exactly what those folk were getting up to.
On Hillbilly Erotica, Bishop returns to his roots in more than one way. His paternal homestead of Enville, Tennessee, can be found among these backwoods haunts, and the album is steeped in the folk music of the region. It is a sequel of sorts to last year’s Hillbilly Ragas, which…

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