CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/13/2026

How-dee! ‘The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide’ is here

New from Toronto artist and writer Derek McCormack and San Francisco publisher Cushion Works, a book designed to offend Ole Nashville and confound the rest of us—in the best possible way. An auction catalogue-esque, bright yellow paperback with generous flaps and surprising spot varnish on the nicely isolated cover images, this unjustifiably appealing and darkly satirical / vampirical artist’s book documents “100s of pieces of shit priced & pictured” that purport to have been designed by SEX and Sex Pistols provocateurs Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood in the 1950s to service a clan of bloodsucking hillbillies who then preyed upon the unsuspecting stars of Music City. “These hillbilly vampires in 1950 … they were so punk, so Podunk … so we created a collection for them and called it Hillbilly Heaven,” McLaren (supposedly) writes in the Foreword. Pictured here: Item AC-4499–J, Punk Fangs #1 (plastic fangs, safety pins, jump ring).