I’ve got a few scrambled thoughts about SXSW that I’m trying to string together for y’all, but in the meantime, I thought I’d share this cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” by the astounding JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound. I closed out SXSW somewhere around 2 a.m. Sunday morning in the backyard of the Red Eyed Fly, clapping and swaying alongside good friends as JC howled and a wild girl danced onstage with some kinda glow-stick hula hoop. Does it get any better than that?
This article appears in Mar 15-21, 2012.
