The story -- My favorite singer -- McCulloch County -- West Texas -- Music in the blood -- Didn't we have us a time -- San Angelo to San Marcos -- The High Cotton Express -- Hondo -- Cheatham Street Warehouse -- Right or wrong -- Texas flood -- I've written some life -- The sky above, the mud below -- Hours a day -- A voice in the wilderness -- Good time van -- Purgatory road -- Home again -- Don't tell me -- Lost and found -- Blanco River meditation #2 -- Legacies -- The players -- Marcia Ball -- Darrell Staedtler -- George Strait -- Ray Wylie Hubbard -- Omar Dykes (Omar and the Howlers) -- Cleve Hattersley (Greezy Wheels) -- Jon Dee Graham (The Skunks) -- Jesse Sublett (The Skunks) -- Will Sexton -- Joe Ely -- Monte Montgomery -- Eric Johnson -- Joe "King" Carrasco -- Ernie Durawa (Texas Tornadoes) -- Diana Finlay Hendricks -- Travis Warren (Blind Melon) -- Radney Foster -- Walt Wilkins -- Bruce Robison -- Terri Hendrix -- Todd Snider -- James McMurtry -- John Arthur Martinez -- Hal Ketchum -- Slaid Cleaves -- Adam Carroll -- Randy Rogers -- Cody Canada (Cross Canadian Ragweed, The Departed) -- Willy Braun (Reckless Kelly) -- William Clark Green -- Hayes Carll -- Robert Ellis -- Joe Pug -- Steve Poltz -- Scott H. Biram -- Sunny Sweeney -- Brennen Leigh -- Noel McKay -- Jamie Wilson (The Trishas) -- Robyn Ludwick -- Owen Temple -- Jack Ingram -- Afterword.