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October 12, 2018

Shakey Graves: “Dining Alone” (Live in Studio 1A) [ACL Fest Preview]

By: Jack Anderson

Here we are once again staring down another weekend of ACL – and we couldn’t be more excited! Our final ACL 2018 preview is from native Austinite Alejandro Rose-Garcia, known around the globe as Shakey Graves. Shakey Graves is inseparable from the Austin music experience and when he performs at his hometown’s eponymous music festival, there’s a lot of local love in the crowd (case in point: last Sunday).

Shakey Graves plays this Sunday at Austin City Limits Music Festival, 7:00pm at the Barton Springs Stage. Shakey’s about to embark on an international tour and won’t be back in the states until December but we’ve got lots of goodies to check out in the meantime. Speaking of which…back in April, Shakey Graves released the critically acclaimed full-length Can’t Wake Up and joined us in Studio 1A around the same time. Here’s a cut from that 1A appearance to prime you for this last ACL weekend, “Dining Alone”.


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