Austin City Limits Recap

Posted October 7, 2009

It’s been a great couple weeks for Sons of Bill, making our acquaintance of the music loving population of Louisiana and Eastern Texas. We spent some time with some old friends down by the bayou and made some new friends, doing six shows with Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights. If you think you like rock and roll, you better check those guys out.

However, the highlight of the tour was our Sunday afternoon set at the Austin City Limits Festival in beautifully muddy Austin, TX. We had a great crowd join us at the BMI Stage, about 5 hours before Pearl Jam took the stage several hundred yards away to close out the festival. They rocked. And they brought Perry Farrell up for the encore to sing “Mountain Song”. Awesome! We were unable to convince Perry to join us onstage, but we rocked none-the-less. Evidence is available below in form of rowdy and righteous versions of the opening track from our new album and the title track from our debut album. Speaking of righteous, there are also some sweet pictures of Sam wiping his face with a towel and Seth getting his Bruce Springsteen on, available on an Austin news website; and a gallery of Sons of Bill photos on the ACL Fest website. Paste magazine also took notice, putting a one-liner about us on their festival recap page, and providing you with a helpful link to get back to the update that you’re currently reading. Enjoy that!

We’ve got three shows with Jason Isbell left to close out the tour and then we’ll be in DC and New York in a week and a half. We’ll hope to see you soon and enjoy the ACL mementos.