From his days at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, through seeking rock stardom with London Records, running the Lone Star Cafe and Blue Note Jazz Club in New York, managing many of Kinky Friedman’s musical tours and political campaigns, to smuggling pot and doing time in a Texas prison, Hattersley provides an often profane, always irreverent look at the times, sharing memories, anecdotes, and much more....

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s coif and dragster earned him his trademark moniker, and the abstract, welded sculptures he fashio...