"For a long time it seems like the hillbilly image kind of insulated us, made us somewhat unattractive as a place to live," Wilder explains. "Then suddenly, everyone is 27, has a beard and rolled-up jeans. So we are having the same problems Austin is dealing with. There's lots of new money in town, people from out of town investing in real estate, driving up the prices of everything. So it's gotten tougher for artistic types to be able to afford to live here, and I hate to see that part of it."
As for his next album, Wilder laughs.
"Big surprise -- it's going to be a garage-rock thing," he says. "I'm trying to cut the tunes fast and loud and a bit dirty, not cleaning everything up so much.
"I like a little crackle in the grooves, you know?"
Webb Wilder performs at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 29 at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk.
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