In a time and place predating the widespread adoption of the automobile, agents of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol, used horses as their means of transportation through the rugged, often treacherous, terrain along the U.S.-Mexico border. From the sweeping deserts of the Yuma sector, to the jagged hills of Nogales, man and beast patrolled their area with an ever vigilant eye to protecting the homeland. In today’s day and age, you're more likely to see agents driving Humvees or Ford Expeditions, but tucked away in the back of every Arizona Border Patrol station, you’ll find the stables, and the horses, and the men and women who still use them every single day.
At the impressionable age of 12, sitting in his darkened Illinois bedroom, Bob Corritore was struck by lightning. Not the earth-splitting variety from the heavens, but lightning in the form of a song. Like a jolt of electricity straight to the brain, Muddy Waters' "Rolling Stone" put the young Corritore on a path of blues music leading him through the nightclubs of Chicago to the control room of Phoenix Public Radio's KJZZ (91.5) on a mission to spread his love of blues music to the world.