What led to the loss of O'Brien's arm was a case of TV gear. On February 12, he was stacking cases onto a cart after a reporting trip to Japan and the Philippines, and one of them fell on his left forearm.
The field holler or field call is a mostly historical type of vocal music sung by southern labourers to accompany their work, to communicate usefully or to vent feelings.n early description is from 1853 and the first recordings are from the 1930s. The holler is closely related to the call and response of work songs, and arhoolies, to Afro-American and ultimately influenced strands of African American music, such as the blues, rhythm and blues, and spirituals.
Variant of hollow. Our Living Language One feature of Upper Southern English and specifically of Appalachian English is its pronunciation of the final unstressed syllable in words such as hollow, window, and potato as (Ér). Holler, winder, and tater are merely variant pronunciations reflected in spelling.As a noun, holler has the specific meaning in the Appalachians of a small valley between mountains: They live up in the holler underneath Big Bald Mountain.oller-shout out; He hollered out to surrender our weapons. holler out. shout-utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking); My grandmother is hard of hearing--you'll have to shout.