Jimmy LaFave (born July 12, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point, Texas, a small farming community located near Dallas. At a young age, LaFave's family moved to the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas, where he attended junior high and high school. By his early-teens, LaFave was making music perched behind a Sears and Roebuck drum kit. It was not long before his mother traded a drawer full of green stamps for his first guitar and the switch to singer-songwriter was in progress.

His family later moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma, where LaFave completed high school. Although he has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1986, he is known for his strong ties to Oklahoma and what he often refers to as his "Red Dirt music". It was in the Oklahoma landscape that he began to define his sound which in part is a combination of his Oklahoman experiences among so many authentic songwriters from the tradition of Woody Guthrie.

While still living in the small farming community of Wills Point, Texas, LaFave played drums in local garage bands. When his family moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma during his sophomore year of high school, LaFave played drums in the high school band, but eventually switched to guitar. An older brother showed him how to play a few chords and LaFave taught himself to play James Taylor and Bob Dylan songs by playing along to records. By age 15 he was writing and singing his own songs and the first incarnation of his band, The Night Tribe, appeared. After high school LaFave played music at night while working a number of day jobs. For a year or two he managed a club in Stillwater called Up Your Alley and recorded Down Under (1979) and Broken Line (1981) at Lamb Recording. During the early 1980s, LaFave traveled to several other cities to determine what the music scene was like. After visiting Nashville, Los Angeles, and Austin, he decided to move to Austin saying "I liked what was going on there."

Bob Dylan ( /ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.

Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.

In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve year old girl. The novel won several awards such as the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel By An American Author, the 2008 Barry Award for Best First Novel, the 2008 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and the 2008 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.