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Strip-Mall Music Man: ‘One Foot in the Grave, the Other on a Banana Peel’

An old bald guy with honey-colored skin is a regular solo performer outside the 99-Cent Store on Hilltop Drive in Redding. The summer day he and I first met he was hunkered comfortably upon his battery-operated, awning-covered scooter. He played gospel and rockabilly tunes on a shiny white electric… Continue Reading