 Heavy metal singer and guitarist Dave Reffett also grew up near this area.Prestonsburg is mentioned in Dwight Yoakam's "Readin', Rightin', Rt.23" (from his album "Hillbilly Deluxe"), a song about the yearning of local coal miners to escape their plight by traveling up U.S. Route 23 to find employment in the factories in the North, not knowing that they were only trading one miserable life for another.