From a childhood spent among such key roots-music figures as Bob Wills and Big Joe Turner, and an extended dual career as a musician and journalist, Michael H Price has forged this frenzied chronicle of life among the denizens of the vanishing borderlands of Texas' indigenous music scene over the past half-century. Contains essays (and some interviews) on Boisec Ardoin, the Austin Lounge Lizards, Billy Briggs, Fred 'Papa' Calhoun, Zeke Campbell, Ornette Coleman, Trudy Coleman, Robert Crumb, Diddy Wah Diddy, Willie Dixon, Robert Ealey, Carroll Hubbard, Herbert Jeffries, the Light Crust Doughboys, Big Bill Lister, Spanky McFarland, Buddy Ray, Rudy Ray Moore, Mantan Moreland, Johnny Reno, Eck Robertson, Salt Lick, Ray Sharpe, Robert Shaw, Major Bill Smith, Texas boogie woogie piano, Son Thomas, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Honest Jess Williams, Windy Wood and many more.