Little Mazarn, Cactus Lee, Cody Dosier
Once upon a time in Austin, immortals-to-be Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Nanci Griffith played this Drag-bound dive regularly. Behold the modern equivalent. “Cactus Lee’s hippie folk sound: more Gene Clark than Gene Autry, more Jackson C. Frank than Alan Jackson,” opined the Chronicle. Alt-ego Kevin Dehan strums a Lone Star timelessness in his quartet’s mid-week Hole in the Wall residency. That pairs divinely with the spare-n-sparse naturalness of Lindsey Verrill leading root whisperers Little Mazarn. Both local acts boast caressing, contemplative 2025 LPs. Now throw in Being Dead godhead Cody Dosier. Old gods, news gods, same ol’ Austin. – Raoul Hernandez
