Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: Turn Your Radio On 1
5. Del Rio's Dr. Brinkley: The Big Daddy of Border Radio 15
6. Purple Shadow on the Rio Grande: Norman Baker in Nuevo Laredo 67
7. Border Blaster at Black Rock 103
8. Crazy 135
9. Please Pass the Tamales, Pappy 159
10. "'Radio Waves Pay No Attention to Lines on a Map" 199
11. "Coast to Coast, Border to Border . . . Your Good Neighbor along the Way" 229
12. Howlin' on a Quarter Million Watts 259
13. Blasting from Baja 275
14. Radio Station S-A-V-E-D 295
15. That Outlaw X 328
16. Selected Bibliography 335
17. Index 347
18. Index of Song Titles 357
19. "Border Radio" song lyrics from Nevada Slim 359
20. About the Authors 361