CHAPTER SEVENTEENRICK
Less than two weeks after Tim and Jesse’s warning from Carmen, The Divebomberz were scheduled to play Johnny’s Cimarron, a huge club in Shreveport, Louisiana, three hundred miles northwest of New Orleans. Jesse was amazed at the rapid turn of events. He hadn’t seen any way out of New Orleans until the door to their exit opened like a magic stone gate to a secret, mountain passage.
Rene’s parents had moved north and realized the clubs in that region would love the band’s country-rock sound. Rene’s father booked the job in Shreveport, which paid eighteen hundred for Wednesday through Saturday. The band would be filling in for another group that had to cancel.
Jesse was beginning to see that many of their opportunities happened because someone else couldn’t make it. E
