Born on the first day of the Great Depression, Randy Davies absorbs the values of small-town Texas life in a time and place when the willingness to do hard and unpleasant work is a measure of a
man's worth. Later, those values fight for dominance when heis tempted to pursue a chancy life as an opera and concert singer. Black Tuesday's child, is about music, the land, the changing
times, and the love of two young women.