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The Belleville Outfit - Time to Stand Time to Stand utilizes a very interesting approach to funding (or at least partially funding) an album release. For this, their sophomore effort, the young sextet created an “Adopt a Song” campaign for fans who would like to have their names mentioned in the liner notes and at concerts in exchange for some sweet, sweet green. Not bad. And, as it turns out, none of those handsome, clean, smiling orphan songs went without a home. All those little tunes dressed up nicely with violin, Wurlitzer and male/female harmonies. They were brushed and combed and made to look mighty fine by Grammy Award-winning producer Bil VornDick, a man who’s worked with Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss and Lucinda Williams, to name a few. And when this mischievous band of songs gets together on Time to Stand they find they can work together as a unit okay, but are sometimes better as stand-alone tracks which dart around between a big band boogie feel, gypsy swing, Americana and all points in between.

Here’s the start of a horror movie, starring the lineup Sunday’s lineup on the Austin City Limits BMI Stage (not that the lineup is horrifying, or anything): We open on a run-down house in rural Mississippi. The house is owned by five brothers, played by the five members of Colour Revolt. The brothers, a scraggly, rough-hewn bunch, are sitting on their front porch, listening to a variety show on an antique radio (voices and music provided by The Belleville Outfit), when five strangers crest the hill approaching the house. It’s the members of South Austin Jug Band and The Massacoustics, playing road-tripping college friends, headed to New Orleans but terribly lost and out of gas. Suddenly, the ghostly image of a woman (Elizabeth Wills) appears between the house and the travelers. She knows of the danger that lies ahead of them. “Fly away,” she warns. “Fly away!”