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Jim Morris (born July 5, 1952) is a professional wrestler best known to fans as Hillbilly Jim. He was one of the World Wrestling Federation's most popular wrestlers of the mid-to-late 1980s.

Morris portrayed a simple-minded, shaggy-bearded Appalachian hillbilly clad in bib overalls, and claiming to hail from Mud Lick, Kentucky, a fictional town said to be in the remote Appalachian Mountains. In reality, Mud Lick is a small town in Monroe County, Kentucky where Morris is originally from. Frequently, he was accompanied in tag team matches by his similarly-dressed "family" members Uncle Elmer and Cousin Junior. His theme music was "Don't Go Messin' With a Country Boy."

The character of Hillbilly Jim was introduced as part of an angle in which he requested his friend, Hulk Hogan, teach him to wrestle. Hogan and Hillbilly Jim also wrestled in tag team matches.

Hillbilly Jim continued to appear at WWF matches until 1990, and returned in 1995 to manage Henry O. and Phineas I. Godwinn, "brothers" who were pig farmers. Morris later worked as a road agent and participated in the "Gimmick Battle Royal" at WrestleMania X-Seven. He hosted the WWE's "Road to WrestleMania 21" publicity tour.

In 2005, Sirius Satellite Radio added "Hilllbilly Jim's Moonshine Matinee" as a weekly program on its Outlaw Country channel 36. Every Saturday, Morris plays a wide variety of classic country music and Southern rock, with stories of his days in the WWF in between records.

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 298 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.

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