Presents a chronicle of life among the denizens of the vanishing borderlands of Texas' indigenous music scene. This book 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, and Robert Ealey.