Still & Barrel : Blair : 9780895876836 : 0895876833 : 22 Jun 2017 : Although legal spirits in the Tar Heel state only go back about ten years, making liquor in North Carolina is not new. Wilkes County, which was once dubbed the ?Moonshine Capital of the World,? was the leading producer of illegal liquor for decades. In 1965, Tom Wolfe's article in Esquire??The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!??made the area nationally famous. Today descendants of famous moonshiners are now respectable craft distillers carrying on the family tradition?people like Brian Call, the master distiller at Call Family Distillers, who is descended from Reverend Daniel Call, who sold his still seven generations ago to burgeoning entrepreneur Jack Daniels. Brian is the son of the legendary Willie Clay ?The Uncatchable? Call, who hung around with Junior Johnson and whose favorite car?a 1961 Chrysler New Yorker fitted with toggle switches that kill the brake lights, is on display at the distillery today.