By JEN CHEN
I was walking around in Westport on a Thursday afternoon when I spotted this sharp-looking guy in front of Tea Drops. Kyle had just rolled into town and was looking for Big Dude’s Music City. He’s the bass player for James Otto, a country singer, and they were performing later that night at the Beaumont Club.
I liked Kyle’s effortlessly cool look. The 24-year-old sported a hat with a hounds tooth pattern, which matches the bold gray graphics on his T-shirt. The gray theme is also picked up in the faded, almost-gray jeans and his Converses. I hadn’t noticed his necklaces at the time, but I’m also intrigued by the charm that looks like a bottle opener. Kyle said that he wore his outfit on the bus the previous night. “It’s a basic rock look, for comfort,” he added.
Onstage, Kyle says that his style isn’t really a little bit country – it’s a little more rock ‘n roll. “I, as sort of a rock musician, can’t justify wearing cowboy boots and a hat [onstage] – especially culturally,” he said. However, he admitted that he sometimes goes “full-out” onstage. He just bought a pair of boots from Katy K. Ranch Dressing, a vintage-slash-hipster-Western store in Nashville, and he’ll don them for the Beaumont show.
Ohhh, well played. Bust out the “Pat” clothes ho. That’ll do, pigs…progress is being made and on your terms.
P.S. Before you make a quorum and develop a consensus, consider the Pat-like ambiguities to which I refer…country versus rock, boots versus Converse, acceptable to get into Power and Light versus unacceptable to get into Power and Light.
Posted at: July 19, 2008 9:46 AM