Cover -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- One Man's Sanctuary in Opelika, Alabama -- Confession in a Booth at the Hollow Log Lounge -- A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies -- Charlene Sperry on Safe Beauty -- Flat-footing on Bluegrass Night: Dorsey Hostetter Explains It All to a Stranger -- He Gets Nostalgic in the Hollow Log Lounge Just Before Friday Night's Last Call -- Pick It, Squirrel: Steve Gresham Sees the Light -- Theology in the Hollow Log -- Wade Seego Believes Soylent Green Is People -- A Cosmological Discovery in the Hollow Log Lounge -- Tull Jackson's Slow Confession -- In Horsehide Shoes, Fleur Hobbs Eats Cheese, Drinks Irish Beer, and Laments the Nature of Her One Arrest -- Break Time: Herman Wiggins Just About Says It All to a Fledgling Who Hopes Swing Music Turns the Local Girls to Carnal Dreams -- Getting Cleared: The Cosmetologist Recounts Her Recent High-Noon Ordeal -- Cadmon Dabney from Whitby Corners on How He Made His Song -- Dew Stuart's Break through on the Jew's Harp -- Oxford Stroud Recollects Fishing with Electricity -- The Phyllis -- After One Straight Jack Too Many, the Salesman Waxes Wild -- Politics and Vodka in the Hollow Log Lounge -- Cowgirl -- Zydeco Washboard, the Confession of Johnny Smooth -- A Putative Country Star Rebukes His Exit Escort -- Twang Chic: Sam Buckhannon Explores the Latest Fashion -- Country Music -- One-Eye Remembers Silver Queen -- James Lee Bucky Declines the Offer -- Leaving the Kmart 4-for-1 Photo Portrait Booth, Junior Martin Flirts with Madness beyond the BlueLight Special and Rumors of Joy -- Miller -- He Has Seen More Than He Bargained For -- Working Up a Thirst in the Hollow Log Lounge -- March, and Mae Fields Tells the Most Recent Miracle She Sort of Saw -- Goatsucker: Dillard Ramsey Admits to His Suspicions.

Jane Lagrone Rejects a Tract En Route to Happy Hour -- Sheriff Matt Whitlock Confesses to a Lesson in Zen after Hours -- The End: Sam Buckhannon's Lament as Told to Pattie Holcey.