ASIN: B019HK8VIG
Publisher: Fred Calvert
Pages: 263
Back when country singer Bobby Wayner was twelve, he’d told a lie that was partly to blame for the death of his older brother, Eldon, who was shot by a neighboring farmer. Bobby couldn’t bear his grief and the guilt he felt for his lie, so he ran away. And for thirty-eight years he stayed away and never reached back. This happened in Kentucky, 1944, during the Second World War.He spent many of his years away in California’s Folsom Prison; he’d killed a man in a barroom fight. At release, he determined to finally go home, wanting to find and reconnect with his family. And he wanted to uncover and face the truth behind why Eldon was murdered. As he travels the roads and the rails his ballads and memories take us back to that tragic summer. Bobby and Eldon had been budding balladeers. They became intrigued with a recluse farmer, a German immigrant. Community rumors claimed he was a Nazi ...
