To the El Bebop Kid:

Thanks for all the great music, TEXAS TORNADOS & LOS SUPER SEVEN, Pancho & Lefty with Townes Van Zandt, Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, too much to even begin to list.

America loves you. Probably not enough, but the love is there.America doesn't appreciate their heroes until too late.

I would like to apologize as a member of the human race for your stay in Angola.

Here's to Baldemar Huerta. I know you don't drink, but I'm lifting one to you.