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Credit: Photo By Todd V. Wolfson

Chronicle cover boy Roky Erickson flanked by his brother Sumner (l) and Waterloo Records owner John Kunz

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Velvet men Alejandro Escovedo and John Cale

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Earl Poole Ball and sweetheart of the rodeo Margaret Moser

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Cowpokes Neil Kaiser and Patricia Vonne

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Hip-hop superheroes Dirty Wormz

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The men of Grady

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Dudley, Daniel, & Bob

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Dayna Blackwell snizzles Pinetop Perkins

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