Foreword : a tough gig, but it beats working / David Carr -- Guitar fools -- A boy and his guitar -- Buckshot in short pants -- Vaseline machine gun -- Cry of the muskrat -- Cats under the stars -- One more Saturday night -- Franklin Avenue -- Electric high heels -- Party to a crime -- Robots on death row -- Living in a house of cards -- Whistling past the graveyard -- Ferris wheels on the farm -- City of angels -- Mississippi farewell -- No money down -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Ghosts of Woody Guthrie -- Martini gulch -- White boys lost in the blues -- From Russia with love -- Key to the highway -- Sisu -- Texas in the twilight zone -- Slings and arrows -- Barbeque and blues -- Iko-iko -- Slow justice -- Stars over the prairie -- Fireworks on the Fourth of July.