Texas singer/songwriter Vince Bell's story begins in the 1970s. Following the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Bell and his contemporaries Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, and Lucinda Williams were on the rise. In December of 1982, Bell was on his way home from the studio (where he and hired guns Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson had just recorded three of Bell's songs) when a drunk driver broadsided him at 65 mph. Thrown over 60 feet from his car, Bell suffered multiple lacerations to his liver, embedded glass, broken ribs, a mangled right forearm, and a severe traumatic brain injury....

Following a car accident in December 1982, Vince Bell's debut album was waylaid for 12 years. Detailing his recovery from the accident and his round-about climb back on stage, he describes the dark corners of the music business that, for the lone musician whose success is measured nightly, usually fall outside of the spotlight.