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.
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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.
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