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...Hank Williams and a new Waylon Jennings. I wanted to see performers whose edges were finely honed and who seemed to spring from the country, and made no accommodations for television in their performances. The Nashville Nick had come to find was part of the vast network of motel people. He had come to apply for work in one of the newly-opening prestige chains, fixed with glowing references from his employers in Florida. This boy can fill your house, they said. Nick was going to get a job to be near Penny. We checked into an eight-dollar...
Nick turned to me and said that although quite a few amazing things had occurred, we might yet be surprised. "If we don't watch it, we might end up back at the motel with two old ladies...
After some heart-to-heart talking with the mother. Nick and she agreed that the girl needed to develop some confidence in herself. The woman drew a map on a napkin, and Nick drove me back to the motel on the expressway...
...back in the morning," said Nick. I sank into a state of twitchy purgatory in the empty motel room as the lightning grew louder and closer. I had stopped drinking at two beers and was further from comprehension than if I had matched Nick's pace. Why had he left? The day was nearing 22 straight hours of highway unraveling followed by the unraveling of events at The Wheel. The sound of an approaching freight train rent the air, rising above the flailing of rain. That's the sound people hear when the funnel is about to scoop them...
...head north early the next day, but I took Nick back into the hamlet and left him at its one motel. The Thistle Dew Alone, with only a wire to his mother for enough money...