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FM rock deejay and private investigator
Rick Shannon is back in a big way in the second novel of a
series that began with the rollicking Radio Activity.
Highway 61 Resurfaced kicks off
when a woman named Lollie Woolfolk sashays into the offices
of Rockin' Vestigations and says she wants to find her long
lost granddaddy, blues producer Tucker Woolfolk. Before it's
over, Rick Shannon has crisscrossed the sweltering Mississippi
Delta in search of the thread that connects a dead man in
Yazoo City found with a fork stuck in his back to an old man
known as Pigfoot Morgan who was just released from Mississippi
State Penitentiary after serving fifty years for murder. Further
complicating matters is the lovesick Crail Pitts, onetime
Ole Miss football star who is driving around the Magnolia
State with a noisy lawyer in his trunk, and Cuffie LeFleur,
one of four generations of a cotton dynasty that may be on
its last legs. In the end, everything points to one of the
great mysteries in blues lore: whether Blind Buddy Cotton,
Crippled Willie Jefferson, and Crazy Earl Tate ever recorded
together. When Rick starts a rumor that he's found the tapes
from the legendary Blind, Crippled, and Crazy sessions, a
killer is sent to collect them and Rick starts singing the
PI blues.
Bill Fitzhugh is the author of seven
novels. He loves the sound of mandolins, slide guitars, and
banjos. He's fond of barbecue, okra, and fried catfish. He's
been to the Grand Ole Opry and likes all kinds of country
music. His biggest regret is that he's never owned a proper
pickup truck. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three
dogs, and a cat, all of whom like to sing along.
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