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“Death always leaves one singer to mourn.” –Katherine Ann Porter Ben Kweller quietly strums an acoustic guitar backstage as hundreds of fans crowd into Austin’s Historic Scoot Inn on a 102-degree night. It’s the final show of a summer tour that included stops in Denver, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston. Many in the audience have followed the musician for more than twenty years, back when Ben, then a talented kid from Greenville, Texas, became one of the most sought-after singer-songwriters in the country. While the audience waits in the heat, napkins transform into makeshift fans and backs become drenched in sweat. This summer tour was intended to be a first for Ben—his sixteen-year-old son, Dorian, on the brink of launching his own musical…

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