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and build a home and studio out in the Hill Country west of the city, where she could
crank her amplifiers as high as she liked. He supervised the construction while Lydia
toured for a year, and when she came home they went inside together and stayed
there for a year and a half. LydiaтАЩs career might have ended then had it not been for
the fact that both her tour and her second album had grossed more money than the
rest of CCAтАЩs acts combined. So between CCA, the tabloid papers and TV shows
(тАЬLydia Love Pregnant with ElvisтАЩs Siamese TwinsтАЭ), and the continuing popularity
of her music, LydiaтАЩs name and image remained in the public eye even if Lydia
didnтАЩt.

Then the ex-cop showed up at an emergency room in Kerrville with a few
pellets of birdshot in his buttocks, and the county sheriff found the alleged shooter
making loud noises in her basement studio. CCA rejoiced, and the third album sold
even better than the first two.

LydiaтАЩs next boyfriend lasted almost as long as the ex-cop had. He was your
basic Texas bubba (Lydia seems to go for us common-man types), and he and
Lydia settled into a happy routine that could have ruined her. But then he went to a
rodeo and was seduced by two barrel racers. The photos and videos hit the stands
and the tube before the bubba even got out of bed. When he tried to go back to
LydiaтАЩs, he found the driveway blocked by a pile of his possessions. They were on
fire.

Creative Burst Number Four followed, and that resulted in the twenty-three
songs of Love in Flames, my favorite album by anybody, ever. Lydia followed that
with a world tour that took two years of her life and made CCA enough money to
buy Canada, if theyтАЩd wanted it. And it was while Lydia was on that tour, Daniels
says, that CCA bugged her house. The corporation wanted to be sure that they
could send help fast if she hurt herself in one of her rages.

When Lydia came home from the tour, she discovered that a hailstorm had
beaten up her roof. She hired an Austin company to repair it, and Christopher
Jennings, a twenty-four-year-old laborer and semi-professional guitarist, was on the
crew. When the job was finished and the rest of the crew went back to the city, he
stayed.

Christopher and Lydia had been together for almost eighteen months when
Lydia agreed to do a free concert in India. They went together, but Christopher took
a side trip to Nepal. On the way back to New Delhi, his plane detoured to avoid a
storm, hit a worse one, and went down in a mountainous wasteland claimed by both
India and Pakistan. The mountains, frequent storms, and constant skirmishes
between the opposing armies made the area inaccessible, and all aboard the airplane
were presumed dead.

Lydia remained in India for two months before corning back to Texas, and
then CCA rubbed their collective hands. They figured that with Christopher now a
corpse on a mountainside, theyтАЩd soon have more Lydia Love songs to sell to the
world.

But six more months passed, and the studio in LydiaтАЩs basement remained