",[3] which was first published in Esquire magazine in March 1965[4] and included in his debut collection of essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, later that year.

[5] Junior Jackson is a restless young man who finds himself the family breadwinner when his father, a career moonshiner, is arrested and sentenced to one-year imprisonment.

Junior is an outstanding driver, so he enters a demolition derby promoted by Hackel, the owner of the local racing track, hoping to win the prize money.

To raise money he spends his nights transporting moonshine, which his father does not approve of, knowing it will inevitably land his son in prison as it did him.

[9] The film's theme song, "I Got a Name", sung by Jim Croce, was released in September 1973 as a single, peaking at No.