Don't let that sneer put you off - the Yale features excellent blues musicians, most of them black Americans, as a matter of fact!
As to the story, I've no doubt the Canadian border police beat the sh*t out of the uppity native musicians.
Hey, they're only Indians!
The article is wrong to label him a surf guitar player. He's a hillbilly from the Baltimore area. Not much surf and unlike land locked bands like the Trashmen, he never even recorded any songs with surf in the title.
Now if only our border police could return the favor on Bryan Adams.