Contributors Music I Want My $2…ChinaShop Catches Up With Paper Route

April 6, 2009 - 6:42 pm

Gavin, drums (on left)
Chad, bass and keyboards
JT sings and samples
Andy sings and plays guitar

The Paper Route play their second SXSW, and this year have taken a slightly less intense schedule, playing two shows instead of four. Big fans of the music festival/conference/freebie schmoozefest, the Nashville quartet is enjoying their time in Austin. Even when I told them that Allen’s boot shop sold hats that said “Nashville Sucks,” they had nothing bad to say about the city. Ascribing the hats to a long-running country music rivalry of which the Paper Route wants no part, they proclaimed to be “hurt” and “disappointed” over their city’s treatment. “You can be there and not really know that country exists,” Chad says.
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