Dave Favis-Mortlock: Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek. I played fiddle in this country-and-western band for a while, did several gigs. One in Basildon, where I had grown up. A strong smell of cordite, I recall, as the audience fired their guns when we started playing. And once, on the way back from a gig, the van broke down. This was in the early hours of the morning. I decided to leave the others and walk home, with my fiddle. It took ages.

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