"The autobiography of Bob Livingston, bass player for the Lost Gonzo Band and contributor to the Cosmic Cowboy movement"--
Bob Livingston’s rollicking memoir of life with theGonzos on the road.
Born in San Antonio and raised in Lubbock, Bob Livingston drank from thesame West Texas water that nourished musicians like Terry Allen, Joe Ely, LloydMaines, and others who were surfing the wake of Buddy Holly, Sonny Curtis, andthe Crickets. He made his way to Austin and installed himself among theprogenitors of the Cosmic Cowboy movement, who played outlaw country music andbroke the rules (and the laws) that didn’t suit them.
Gypsy Alibi is Cosmic Bob’s origin story, but italso tells a tale of how music traverses the planet. Traveling since the ’80sas a Global Music Ambassador for the US State Department, Livingston has takenTexas music as far afield as India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Africa,Vietnam, and the Middle East.
Livingston is known as the bass player and singer of the Lost Gonzo Bandthat toured and recorded with visionary misfits like Jerry Jeff Walker, RayWylie Hubbard, and Michael Martin Murphey. Gypsy Alibi captures the lifeof a working musician, its flights of (and fights with) creative genius.Livingston’s romping narrative also serves as a gonzo travelogue that tracesthe spread and reception of uniquely Texan culture across the globe.
