Thick Lights, Loud Smoke and Dim, Dim Music: The Honky-Tonk Badlands of Texas

by Michael H. Price

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. Says RECORD COLLECTOR magazine: "Evocative and compelling." Adds BLUES & RHYTHM magazine: "A Garrison Keillor of rock and roll... much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508428395
• ISBN13: 9781508428398
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"