shotgun shack

Make a visit to Clarksdale even more memorable with an overnight stay at the Hopson Plantation's Shack Up Inn--a bed and breakfast made up of authentic sharecroppers' shotgun shacks. Don't worry--while the exterior of each ramshackle shanty is authentically dilapidated, rickety and rustic, the interiors are modern, clean and comfy, with amenities you just won't find at the local Holiday Inn.

It fell on the row of shotgun shacks, on the burned-out grocery, on the street in front of the shuttered tavern.

The words "You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack" come from which song?

They also decorated the interior and exterior of her Everlasting Gospel Mission, a shotgun shack in the bohemian Lower Ninth Ward, her headquarters from the late '50s on.

Elvis was raised in poverty in a shotgun shack, so named because you could shoot right the way through it.

Believability, in fact, is stretched from the start, when 45-year-old George (Kline) wakes up in what's no better than a shotgun shack at the end of a cul-de-sac in a pricey coastal Orange County, Calif., neighborhood, putters across his backyard to the edge of a cliff and urinates into the Pacific.

The following words are the first words to which famous song: "And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack" 1.

Rumbling his way on to Julian McGowan's evocative set, a so-called shotgun shack scarcely larger than Karl's (offstage) Cadillac, Hollis suggests a portly sage, his eyes glistening with experience and a hard-won wisdom.

You may yet find yourself in another part of the world, living in a shotgun shack, asking yourself, "What have I done?" Even more scarily, you might feel you've come home.

Tracing the steps of Elvis from the shotgun shack in Tupelo - so called because you could shoot a shotgun through it and not hit any furniture, to Gracelands, the luxury mansion the singer brought with his new riches - his rapid rise to fame and fortune is glaringly apparent.

But in his recent installation, entitled Spirit House, 1993, Birch set his sights on three African-American traditions of the rural South: the yard show, the shotgun shack, and the bottle tree.

Their world, beyond the razor-wire fences of the school, was no broader than the dusty streets of the wrong side of the tracks, the sloped tin roofs and sagging porches of shotgun shacks and trailers mounted on cinderblocks.

Urban renewal erased all that, with government bulldozers tearing down shotgun shacks and well-kept two-story homes alike.