Boone Sawyer, who aspires to a career in rock and roll music, despite the advice of his stern father, Merit Sawyer, who wants Boone to join him in the automobile repair business. The setting of the series is Tennessee in the early 1950s, when great changes began to occur in popular music, with the rise of Elvis Presley.
Boone and Rome discover an orphaned girl living in a burned-out cabin. Boone and Rome meet Banjo, a wild orphan with a talent for the instrument she's named after, and bring her to the Sawyer's home to stay, but Boone is not prepared for the jealousy his sister, Squirt, exhibits toward the newcomer. |