The Unknown Hinson Show won Creative Loafing's 'Best Of' poll for Best Public-Access Television Show four years in a row. After Swan's death in 1995, Baker created 'The Unknown Hinson Show', a direct spin-off of 'The Wild Wild South'. Baker along with co-star Don Swan played the characters of Unknown Hinson and Rebel Helms. Stuart Daniel Baker, a music teacher and studio musician from Albemarle, North Carolina, created his alter-ego for The Wild Wild South, a Charlotte area public-access program that featured comedy sketches and concert footage. Much like Andy Kaufman's alter-ego, Tony Clifton, Unknown Hinson never breaks character in public and adamantly denies having any connection to Danny Baker. ' Baker has carefully cultivated his alter ego. With his glued-on sideburns, blacked-out front teeth, and dark hair slicked back to reveal a prominent widow's peak, he has been referred to as the 'hillbilly vampire.' The self-proclaimed 'king of country-western troubadours' speaks and sings with an authentic southern drawl, commonly pronouncing words like woman 'womern,' and window 'winder.' Hinson's personality is that of a hell-raising and hard-drinking country western singer with a preference for 'party likker,' sexy womerns, and fine 'git-tars. His recorded material has the sonic qualities of a regional country star with access to cheap recording studios and hack producers.

Unknown Hinson, dressed in his signature rodeo tailor coat and black ribbon necktie, is a dark parody of the country western stars from the 1950s through the mid-1980s. He is perhaps best known for his role as the voice of Early Cuyler on the Adult Swim cartoon series Squidbillies. Stuart Daniel Baker, better known by his stage name, Unknown Hinson, is a comedic country musician, songwriter, and voice actor.

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