Editing Old Crow (section)

==In popular culture==
Old Crow is said to have been the favorite bourbon of American writers [[Mark Twain]] and [[William Faulkner]].{{cn|date=May 2025}} Journalist [[Hunter S. Thompson]] liked it.{{cn|date=May 2025}} Twain reportedly visited the distillery in the 1880s, and Old Crow advertised this heavily;<ref>For instance, in an [https://books.google.com/books?id=A2QQAAAAIAAJ&q=mark+twain+old+crow ad] in ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]] magazine, from 1953.  See also [https://books.google.com/books?id=zQQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=mark+twain+old+crow&pg=PA20 this ad] from ''[[Kiplinger's Personal Finance]]'', 1981.</ref> John C. Gerber sees in this commercial exploitation a sign of Twain's continuing popularity.<ref>John C. Gerber, "Collecting the Works of Mark Twain", in {{cite book
  | last = Davis
  | first = Sara deSaussure
  |author2=Philip D. Beidler |author3=John C. Gerber
  | title = The Mythologizing of Mark Twain
  | publisher = U of Alabama P
  | year = 1984
  | location = Tuscaloosa
  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/mythologizingofm00cong/page/3 3]–14
  | url = https://archive.org/details/mythologizingofm00cong
  | url-access = registration
  | isbn = 978-0-8173-0201-6}}</ref> As for Thompson, the frequent occurrences of the drink in his writing, semi-autobiographical<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Thompson
  | first = Hunter S.
  |author2=Douglas Brinkley |author3=David Halberstam
  | title = Fear and loathing in America: the brutal odyssey of an outlaw journalist, 1968-1976
  | publisher = Simon and Schuster
  | year = 2000
  | page = 93
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=R34syw0vpZ4C
  | isbn = 978-0-684-87315-2}}</ref> as well as fictional,<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Thompson
  | first = Hunter S.
  | title = Songs of the doomed: more notes on the death of the American dream
  | publisher = Simon and Schuster
  | year = 2002
  | page = 6
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wuHsCVa4TAsC
  | isbn = 978-0-7432-4099-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
  | last = Thompson
  | first = Hunter S.
  | title = The great shark hunt: strange tales from a strange time
  | publisher = Simon and Schuster
  | year = 2003
  | page = 62
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VHxgGvF9ugAC
  | isbn = 978-0-7432-5045-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
  | last = Thompson
  | first = Hunter S.
  | title = Mescalito
  | publisher = Simon and Schuster
  | year = 2000
  | page = 21
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5jNAar89FfcC
  | isbn = 978-0-7432-1522-0}}</ref> have led to similar associations. The manufacturer actively pursued such publicity: in 1955, they took out an ad in ''College English'', the journal of the [[National Council of Teachers of English]], offering $250 for every authenticated reference to their product one could find in past literature or history.<ref>{{cite journal
  | title = News and Ideas
  | journal = College English
  | volume = 17
  | issue = 2
  | page = 119
  | publisher = [[National Council of Teachers of English]]
  | year = 1955
  }}</ref>

In the 1955 film ''[[I Died a Thousand Times]]'', the dying mob boss, Big Mac (Lon Chaney Jr.), drinks Old Crow in violation of doctor's orders.

The 1952 film "Springfield Rifle", disgraced Major Kearney (Gary Cooper) orders Old Crow in a saloon

Throughout ''[[Up a Road Slowly]]'', Irene Hunt's 1966 Newbery Award–winning novel, Uncle Haskell drinks copious quantities of Old Crow, taking the empty bottles in a golf bag to bury them at a creek. He claims the Old Crow is rare French wine, so the children begin referring to it as ''Le Vieux Corbeau''.

In recent books in the [[Spenser (character)|Spenser]] series, originated by the late [[Robert B. Parker]] and continued by [[Ace Atkins]], the title character regularly refers to drinking Old Crow.

Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major the main character, Bluesman Manfred Banks favorite drink is Old Crow.

In the [[History (American TV network)|History Channel]] 3-part mini-series ''[[Grant (miniseries)|Grant]]'', the general is seen with a bottle of Old Crow.

In Joseph Hansen's series of detective novels, his protagonist Dave Brandstetter drinks Old Crow.

Principal McVicker from the TV series [[Beavis and Butthead]] is seen drinking a bottle of Old Crow in the episode "No Laughing". Famous YouTuber Gothic king cobra (JFS) is also a fan of the cheap whisky .