[kj] Anyway we can get KJ to play Austin's South by Southwest Music Fest ...

B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 12 13:52:52 EST 2008


Wow, that is up there with the weirdest.

In the Minutemen documentary 'We Jam Econo' they discuss opening for
R.E.M. near the end of their career, 1984 or 85. REM were still college
rock and Minutemen were gravitating to that softer sort of sound sort of
like Husker Du had been, also.

-Oliver



Alexander Smith wrote:

> Odd double-bills:

>

> I saw Dwight Yoakam (perma-hatted country crooner/actor) open for

> Husker Du back in the day. Odd, to say the least.

>

> Alex in NYC

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