Carson McHone

ARSON McHone was 16 when she started playing bars in Austin and beyond. A lot of the out-of-town joints are still real spit-and-sawdust saloons, chicken-wire fences in front of the stage. “You can find bars like that in Austin, if you know where to look,” she says. “But as you leave the city limits,. There’s lots of strange bars out there.”