Border Music

Border Music by Robert James Waller Most people dont run
out the back door of a place called the Rainbow Bar in
Dillon Minnesota with someone they dont even know get in a
pickup truck drive all day and end up without any clothes
on in a motel room. But thats what Texas Jack Carmine did
with Linda Lobo. It was the kind of thing Jack was famous
for doing. The people who knew Texas Jack Carmine – such
as songwriter Bobby McGregor and Jacks uncle Vaughn Rhomer
back in Iowa – called him Gods only freeborn soul rider of
the summer roads traveler of the far places. Where he was
headed with dark-haired long-legged Linda was not just
back to his one-horse Texas ranch. It was somewhere he had
never been: face to face with his own heart and the wild
strange things that live there. Border Music is the story
of Jack and Linda of long hot days on a high desert ranch
nights wild with loving beneath West Texas skies and times
when their relationship tears them both apart. Its about
Vietnam and the Midwest and Vaughn Rhomer an old man who
tries in his own fumbling way to be free. Its about men
and women who work hard and care intensely about romance
and the passion that you only find once…and you never
stop wanting to find again.