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Texas guitar-slinger Long John Hunter plays party blues, bred in one of the most party-intense atmospheres a musician could ask for. For ten years between 1957 and 1970, Hunter rocked from sundown to sun-up at the Lobby Bar in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso. In a town where the curfew was determined solely by how long one was able to stay on one's feet, Hunter's job consisted of doing whatever it took to keep things at a fever pitch for a well-juiced audience of Mexicans, New Mexico and west Texas ranchers and cowboys, Fort Bliss soldiers, tourists, and teens and college students crossing the Rio Grande in search of sex, drugs, and other contraband from switchblades to firecrackers (plus, of course, the oft-rumored, never-actually-witnessed donkey show). To this day, Long John can work a crowd like few other musicians -- and in the '90s, for the first time ever, he's started being seen and heard by more than a lucky few in the Lone Star State. Now, finally, he's...