Get Ducked Up

Downtown — Austin, TX. I caught this one during an afternoon set at a dive off Sixth, back when the room was still mostly empty and the neon was doing more work than the crowd. Austin's reputation as the Live Music Capital gets thrown around a lot, but it's moments like this — a guy on a stool, open case at his feet, playing for whoever wanders in — that actually earn it. The city's been built on rooms like this one for decades, stretching back to the Armadillo and Antone's days when songwriters cut their teeth between lunch and last call. There's a quiet dignity to the daytime shift, before the tourists pour in and the sound guys crank it loud. This is where the real ones pay their dues.

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