Originally frontman Matt Kinsey’s side-project whimsy, Li’l Cap’n Travis not only floated – its three-hour tour eventually made it to Gilligan’s Isle and lived blearily ever after! Their humid twang, dreamy and garage, bottled millennial slackerhood locally – part Tweedy, Wilson, and Johnston. Sophomore LP Lonesome & Losin’ in 2001 and 2004 list-topper …In All Their Splendor still feel like summer, water and sunsets, a crucial pressure valve in our embattled state. A message washed up on Lake Austin last summer, “Violeta, Diamond of the Everglades,” a wordless chorus of na-na-nas – hopefully still Kinsey, Christian Braafladt, Mandon Maloney, Jeff Johnston, and pedal steel sovereign Gary Newcomb – surfing a trumpet line off your favorite beach noir. – Raoul Hernandez
