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SXSW scene report: Drive-By Truckers at Waterloo Records
One of the best bands in America playing in the parking lot of one of the best record stores in America on a beautiful day in a city that never tires of congratulating itself on being unquestionably the best, most enlightened and hippest town from sea to shining sea. Yeah, sometimes it’s good to live in Austin.
That was the scene Thursday afternoon at Waterloo Records (which has a solar-powered stage for SXSW, with which to shore up its hip/enviro bona fides even more), where the Drive-By Truckers stopped by to showcase new tunes off their two-day-old record, “The Big To-Do.” People die a lot in DBT songs, so it was appropriate that they opened with singer-songwriter-guitarist Patterson Hood singing “Drag the Lake Charlie.” Best lines: “Our best-case scenario is Lester turns up dead/I’m almost out of Valium, courage and self-respect.”
I love this band.
Thirty-five minutes, seven songs and they were done, heading inside to do a signing. The line of fans stretched around the corner and down the block.
DBT plays again tonight at 10:30 at Stubb’s.
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