He started playing steel guitar with a slide doing all the work for his missing fingers. Then, he took up the fiddle. He had to play it backwards, bowing with his damaged left hand and fingering the strings with his right.
Today, his face was filled with triumph as he felt his musical rebirth coming of age. He and Butch were weaving rhythms and leads with their electric guitars like they were tying the crowd to the whipping post. Jesse watched Dale singing and dancing like he’d been a rock star his entire life. He took to the big crowd like a pro surfer to a wave. At one point, Dale leaped into the air and landed into a double spin move with athleticism Jesse didn’t know he had. When he got to the famous line in the “Sweet Home Alabama” song, “A southern man don’t need him around, anyhow,
