From under the brim of a black gunslinger’s hat, Calder Allen stood onstage at the Capri in Marfa and surveyed his audience. The crowd was what you’d expect for a Thursday night: hip-adjacent young residents in Open Road Stetsons; local artists who looked like they’d just ridden in with a Lonesome Dove–era trail drive; women who could be either yoga teachers or blacksmiths (in this Trans-Pecos village, it can be hard to tell); neighbors catching up with one another; a quorum of dogs.Allen’s four-piece band, which included his uncle Bukka Allen on keyboard and accordion, was in the midst of a sprint through a set of a dozen or so songs, all of them written or cowritten by the 21-year-old front man. By all available evidence, folks…
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