The first time indie rock icons the Mountain Goats played in Texas, the band’s founder and singer-songwriter, John Darnielle, didn’t really know what to expect. Darnielle was born in Indiana and raised in California, and the band’s first Texas show, in Austin in 1996, wasn’t a great fit for a then-unknown two-piece group. “We played a show in a gigantic, cavernous room, that we could not fill at all. We were pretty small potatoes at the time,” Darnielle said from his home in Durham, North Carolina, the day after returning from a rather more successful string of Texas shows. “I think maybe thirty to fifty people, maximum, were in a big old concrete room in the Austin of the nineties, which was a very different…
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