As an entity, Hippie Scum perhaps provides its own best introduction as “cosmic cowboy bootleg.” Overseen by Austin DJ and aesthetic precisionist Derek Daniel Brown, the cassette label preserves lost underground with Texas-centric compilations and rare live recordings from the likes of Pharoah Sanders and Neil Young. The bonus-track-sweetened novelties sell out quick – as do the Lone Star-loving, limited-run tees. Leon Bridges himself recently donned a Seventies-heavy design bearing the outlet’s “Here’s another one from Texas” slogan. Last year brought the outlet’s first original music releases, from Austin’s Cactus Lee and New York’s ZZZwalk (of course covering Kinky Friedman).
