Joshua Brumett is a writer from Dallas, Texas. He blogs at lineofwords.blogspot.com and sometimes tweets as @joshbrumett.
A band performed that night, for the first time in public—a band whose mercurial rise and untimely fall was to become the talk of Clay County for years to come, and who, in their own way, possessed the rare and true spirit of the Texas musical tradition. They were called the Sons of the Sons of the Sons of the Pioneers.