Piecing together the story of my father, the Black cowboy-musician Jimmy Holiday

In the 1950s, he quickly developed a reputation for being a gun-toting, switchblade-carrying man on one hand and an impossibly tender soul who could write love songs with the facility of angels on the other.

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