Author Description

Before he wrote "Texas Crude," before drumming for the Fugs and writing songs like "I Couldn't Get High," before being a Cold War Air Force spy who deciphered Russian over Eastern Europe and Spanish over Cuba, before staggering and swearing his way through the sixties under the influence of everything that came his way, before becoming a hard laborer, a ditch digger, a zookeeper, a professor of Russian, a father, an author: Texas Crude, with illustrations by R. Crumb, and a contentedly sequestered husband in France, Ken Weaver was just another Galveston Island child in a world that didn't want him.