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SXSW scene report: Yard Dog party
It’s everybody’s favorite old-school SXSW event: Randy opens up his Yard Dog Gallery on S. Congress Ave., bands play in the lot out back and people wander down the alley in search of a cold beer and some free music.
The crowd seemed to be smaller than normal Saturday afternoon, no doubt because of the weather, which didn’t keep one joker (surely a local) from coming out in short shorts and sandals.
“It’s good to be back in Anchorage for North By Northwest,” Coal Porters vocalist-mandolinist told the crowd that was trying to outsmart a chilly wind that went through you no matter where you stood. “I told the band to pack shorts — it’s hot in Texas.”
A genuinely funny (guitarist Neil Robert Herd is actually a comedian of some renown in the U.K.) and irreverent bluegrass band, the Coal Porters got serious long enough to do the weepy “A Soft Place to Fall,” written by Allison Moorer, also known as Shelby Lynne’s little sister. By set’s end the crowd seemed in an agreeable mood, and the $2 pints of Dogfish Head beer no doubt helped.
Franklin said the weather hadn’t caused him any problems except “it’s making me cold. But everything’s on schedule. And we haven’t had bad weather for this in years. But we’ve been doing this 15 years and I don’t ever remember it being this cold.”
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