For reasons unknown to me, Austin remains a nightmare for legacy artists.
I'm genuinely surprised by this. And by Tom Rush still gigging.
Jules
Tom Rush was so, so good last night. He’s a masterful guitarist and storyteller. Just fantastic and we’re so glad we made the effort. The theater holds 300 and I think he had between 75 and 100 in the audience, mostly his contemporaries from the look of it. I easily outpaced them on the trip to the men’s room.
I feel like I discovered a new artist last night. Speaking of which, he was accompanied by Brendan Cleary, a young singer/songwriter and excellent guitarist whose first album comes out later this year. Highly recommend him as well.
Sadly, Austin is populated by music snobs who just don’t turn out for older artists. I often have to travel to Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio for shows. Case in point - Art Garfunkel has sold about 200 tickets at ACL Live (capacity 2400) for his November show.
