The Story of Jelacy Hawkins

Hawkins first met Grimes through fried, who he got to know shortly after his discharge from the military. The two had struck up a friendship and hawkins managed to get back stage at fried's show when he just went up to grimes and asked for a job. Hawkins would play piano and sexophone, sing occasionally, and was also, according to hawkins, grimes's valley and dog walker. He would come out on stage in his kilt and with tins of carnation evaporated milk hanging on his chest as if they were breasts. For decades afterwards, hawkins would describe fried as one of the very few white people in the world who actually cared about black people