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Down in Austin, music is something of a family business

Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 19 March 2015

AUSTIN MUSIC IS becoming a family business. Parents are passing down to their children songwriter/performer brand names as if they were used-car lots, drug stores, or Italian restaurants. The kids apprentice their craft by hanging around their fathers and mothers at work until they're ready to take over the franchise.

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