Without falling into tall tales about crazy times on the road, Cabal traces the twists and turns of musicians who form a band that ultimately capitulates to George Strait's rising stardom. While recounting the growing division between Strait and his bandmates, Cabal is nonetheless generous and straightforward about the years before Strait became a household name. Had Cabal chosen to embellish or craft his stories along traditional lines, the book could have easily been twice its length, but instead he chose to document the events and tell us about his odyssey as though we were sitting in a Texas honky tonk and swapping life stories.