High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Homer and Jethro were the stage names of American country music duo Henry D. Haynes (1920 1971) and Kenneth C. Burns (1920 1989), popular from the 1940s through the 1960s on radio and television for their satirical versions of popular songs. Known as the Thinking Man's Hillbillies, they received a Grammy in 1959 and are members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.