Table of Contents
Preface v
1 You Can't Get Here from There 1
2 The Real Thing, the Big Show, Rock 'n' Roll! 21
3 Paint Your Wagon, a.k.a. the Big Break 35
4 It's Over-Breakup-to the Next Level 45
5 From Cowtown to Circles 61
6 The Circle Album 75
7 The Road Can Rule You 91
8 Road Animals: Linda, Bottom Line, Sedalia, Wyman, Russell 99
9 The Good, the Bad, and the Drugly 111
10 The Most per Note We Ever Made 127
11 The Red Brick Road 137
12 Starting On-the-job Training Being Towed in the Fast Lane 155
13 Little Jean, Dancing, Brings Us Together 173
14 That "I-Became-Earl-Scruggs"Moment 183
15 The Candidate Didn't Make It to the White House - What the Pluck Happened? 191
16 Can We Win This Crowd? And Finally Waking Up 207
17 Party of Seven-Single Father to the Max 221
18 Surfing in Kansas 227
19 Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, and Four Ex- Wives 239
20 The Fog of Wall and Phishing for Notes 253
21 Closing the Decade and Opening the New Century 265
22 You Never Know Who You Know until You Meet Them 281
23 McNamara Fog-Speed of Life-to NYC 291
24 Digging into the Apple 297
25 Full Circle: I Didn't Know 1 Would Get Here from There 307
Acknowledgments 317
Index 319
