High Lonesome Sound

By Boyce Brown

Young peripatetic artist-intellectual, son of a Hawaiian activist musician and stepson of a country songwriting legend, who grew up in Hawaii and Bakersfield travels to Austin to get into music and independent filmmaking but arrives with credit card debt and has to start temping immediately. Stumbles into a career in nonprofit administration. Tries to start a hip hop youth center with a friend from work. Helps organize a seven hour hip hop jam in an East Austin park. Falls in and out of like-plus with a fellow temp worker, falls madly in love with a sexy bright-eyed social worker. Road trips around Central Texas. Finds his long lost stepfather in dire straits in a trailer park outside of Page Arizona after a long journey driving west, reading from the world's religious traditions and journaling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DVXQV416
• ISBN13: 9798309150687
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"