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SXSW scene report: Beatles Complete on Ukulele Day 1
We walked up to the patio at Jaimie’s Spanish Village just as producer Roger Greenawalt, the Eggmen and others were playing “Happiness is a Warm Gun” with Greenawalt playing uke, as he will do from noon-6 p.m. at Jaimie’s as they play the entire canonical Beatles catalog with Greenawalt front and, well, to the right and sitting in a chair.
We also heard “I Saw Her Standing There,” “From Me to You” and more. Ex-Austinites Chris Masterson (Son Volt, Jack Ingram and soon to be a member of Steve Earle’s Dukes) and wife Eleanor Whitmore did “All You Need is Love” and more, with Masterson playing a beautiful cream-colored Gretch hollow-body with gold hardware.
“Singing those six songs is the most fun I’ll probably have at SXSW,” he said.
“That was a blast,” Whitmore said. “There’s no better music, really, than the Beatles.”
In case you want to see if they do have more fun later in the week, Masterson and Whitmore are playing the Indiesounds showcase at the Hideout Theater, 617 Congress Ave., at 4:35 p.m. Thursday, the Cactus Cafe Songwriter Showcase at 6 p.m. Saturday and elsewhere.
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