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Criminal

I Fought the Law

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bobby Fuller was found dead. The mystery of what happened to him has been called “the rock and roll version of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.” We speak with Miriam Linna and Dalton Powell. We made a special playlist of music discussed in this episode. Learn more in Miriam Linna and Randell Fuller’s book, I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. This episode contains references to suicide.

0:34.0

Please use discretion.

0:38.0

There is a famous bar in Juarez, where in 1957 blues players like Hmong John Hunter and Little Joe Washington began performing.

0:47.0

The lobby, the legendary lobby.

0:49.0

It was a bar just across the bridge in Juarez, Mexico.

0:54.8

At the lobby, the music didn't stop until the sun came up.

0:58.5

Long John Hunter once said,

1:00.4

it was a party from 8 o'clock till please go home in the morning.

1:05.0

He was famous for hanging from the ceiling rafters with one hand and playing guitar with the other.

1:12.0

Everybody went to the lobby.

1:14.0

I mean, and in those days, you just walk across the bridge.

1:18.0

You didn't have to talk to anybody or anything.

1:20.0

So it was easy for the young guys to go over there and there weren't really any venues to hear that kind of music in El Paso.

1:29.0

So we all went over there.

1:31.0

Aetta James reportedly went to the lobby to see Long John Hunter.

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