CONTENTS

        Dedication

        Epigraph

        Introduction: Jolson in the River

  1    The Father of Waters

  2    Whiskey in the Ditches Two Feet Deep

  3    The Big House

  4    Mr. Paul

  5    Sun

  6    “I Been Wantin’ to Meet That Piano Player”

         Photographic Insert 1

  7    Too Hot to Rock

  8    England

  9    “Who Wants Some of This?”

10    American Wilderness

11       “He Who Steals My Name”

    Photographic Insert 2

12    Jet Planes and Hearses

13    The Year of the Gun

14    “Babies in the Air”

15    The Fork in the Road

16    Last Man Standing

17    Stone Garden

        Epilogue: Killer

        Acknowledgments

        Bibliography

        Index

        About the Author

        Also by Rick Bragg

        Credits

        Copyright

        About the Publisher