Dellwood McGinty
Dellwood McGinty was born in 1947 to Mr. and Mrs. Reginald McGinty in Appaloosa, New Mexico. Reginald was a traveling snake-oil salesman and often took his young son on the road with him. It was on these adventures that Dellwood was introduced to the guitar by another seedy profiteer and grifter that went by the name of LongHorn Bob. LongHorn taught Dellwood how to play slide on a beat-up 1922 Sears Silver Tone guitar using a carved piece of a horse femur which incidentally became the very implement used in Reginald's unsolved and gruesome murder.
An early trauma...
After his father's death, Dellwood travelled the country, funding his exploits by performing a strange new brand of music on the flatbed of his deceased father's 1930 Chevy LR1 1/2 ton truck. It was during this time Dellwood met, and instantly fell in love with his future wife, Brandywine Magowan. Together they ventured around the country subsidizing their musical income by selling homemade jerky, leather goods, and other assorted byproducts of the animals they either hunted or absconded with.
A love affair…
Along the way they partnered up and performed with a band of similar ne'er-do-wells; namely the outlaw-guitar-player Apple Jack Roscoe (who famously built one of the first of what could be considered an electric guitar out of a broom stick, a steel chamber pot, and a Sentrol magnet from the gate of an electrified fence); a percussive young farm-hand that went by the name of Tom Tom Cherry-Bomb (who incidentally is considered one of the first pyrotechnics due to his fascination and experiments with black-powder explosives); and George Sweet-Peppers (once a dealer of low-end phonographs but, due to his outrageous temper and gambling addiction turned to selling stolen cattle and horses in Oklahoma).
Only the beginning.
After a few years of traveling in loose companionship they all decided to head east and settle down in the booming city-town of Buffalo NY. There they each raised families but continued to hone their special brand of music, performing under the moniker of "The Nightshades".