A song to die for

By Mike Blakely

Subjects: Organized crime, Investigation, Musicians, fiction, Austin (tex.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, Murder, Fiction, Songwriters, Nineteen seventies, FICTION / Crime, Country musicians, Guitarists

Description: Eagerly taking work as a new guitarist for a former country music legend, Vietnam veteran Creed Mason partners with Texas Ranger Hooley Johnson, who believes that the band has ties to a string of mob hits. 1975. Guitarist Creed Mason hopes to ride the new wave of Texas-style, Austin-based country music all the way back to the big time. A one-hit wonder whose Nashville career was cut short by a trip to Vietnam, Creed is desperate to get back into the business. His break arrives when a country legend, Luster Burnett, comes out of a fifteen-year retirement for one last album and tour in order to pay off a huge debt to the I.R.S. When a mob princess from Las Vegas is found dead just outside of Austin, it seems that the mob-related murders and the band are somehow connected.