Contents
Author’s Note
Chapter 1. Route 66
Chapter 2. California
Gospel Gypsies
Chapter 3. All-Day Singing with Dinner on the Grounds
Chapter 4. The Joneses Sing
Chapter 5. Afterglow
Chapter 6. Little Sinners
Chapter 7. Queen of the Southern Transplants
Chapter 8. Truths and Dubious Wisdom
Chapter 9. Our House
Chapter 10. Sister Fern Won’t Go to Town
Chapter 11. We Got Us a Baby
Chapter 12. Daddy and the Doctor
Chapter 13. The Other Babies
Chapter 14. Raymond’s Doll Baby
Chapter 15. In the Garden
Chapter 16. Hey Good Lookin’
Chapter 17. I Was There When It Happened
Chapter 18. Musical Pie Lady
Chapter 19. His Eye Is on the Sparrow
Chapter 20. Goodbye Again
Chapter 21. Harmony in the Car
Chapter 22. Tents
Chapter 23. Revivals
Chapter 24. Down on the Bayou
Chapter 25. Junior and Them
Chapter 26. Brother Daly’s Gold-Plated Hallelujah
Musical Houses
Chapter 27. Age of Reckoning
Chapter 28. The Pink House
Chapter 29. Prodigal Son
Chapter 30. Johnny Cash Will Make All the Difference
Chapter 31. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Chapter 32. Down by the Riverside
Chapter 33. Leaving Louisiana
Chapter 34. California Kids
Chapter 35. Nashville Nights
Chapter 36. Fifties Farewell
Chapter 37. Love Me Tender
Chapter 38. Palm Springs
Chapter 39. This World Is Not My Home
Epilogue
Gospel Gypsies Know
Acknowledgments
Credits