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I've got my nose in Ry Cooder's book again, reading it for the second time, trying to connect more dots. It's a series of short stories but nearly every chapter mentions some dive bar or restaurant that's mentioned in another story. There's more than a few shady characters and musicians mentioned in nearly every story. Some of the musicians actually existed, but it's hard to figure out if the scenarios he paints around them are factual or not. For instance it the chapter that mentioned Lorrie Collins (of the Collins Kids) it has her in a car with two hoods that are up to no good and a bottle of hooch. Did that really happen? Who knows?

In the story I reread yesterday, it mentions Esquerita. He was a real person, a singer in the mold of Little Richard. They actually knew each other which, given Esquerita's appearance, sometimes leads to chicken or egg debates, who influenced who. In this story he's mentioned because a shady guy needs a plastic surgeon for a sex change. A mechanic he encounters might know a guy, one who did some fine work on Esquerita. "You know what you're doing Doc. Esquerita was good work." And that's about where the mention ends. But it was enough to remind me that I haven't listened to Esquerita in a long time.

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Listen:
Esquerita - Hole In My Heart mp3 at Rocky 52
Esquerita - Rockin' the Joint mp3 at Rocky 52
Esquerita - Crazy Crazy Feeling mp3 at Rocky 52