Lo-fi legend beck assesses a long career in today's keynote including a disastrous first SXSW show.
You’ve heard the story of Johnny Cash’s SXSW performance, the one that caused a stool to be permanently affixed to the old Emo’s ceiling. The lesser known part of that story? After Cash played that set in 1994, a burgeoning act took the stage. On a technicality, Cash opened for Beck, a situation the younger artist called “absurd.”, and the supersonic success of single and now generational anthem “Loser.” He had barely played with a band before.
That show was also the last time Beck played at SXSW. In many ways, his appearance in 2022 represents a return to the beginning. His conversation with’s Amanda Petrusich preceded a solo acoustic set Saturday at the Moody, which might sound like an odd choice for an artist that often deals in maximalism. But as Beck told Petrusich, his roots are very much in folk.
Beck’s hour-long conversation with Petrusich mostly focused on the craft of songwriting and Beck’s chameleon-like approach to it. Beck talked about his lyrics, which he said many dismissed as “word salad.” But Beck said he is more concerned with the movement and feelings that lyrics can evoke rather than anything making sense on paper.
He had absolutely no answer for how he might pin down a through line in his work, but rather seemed wholly unconcerned with trying to categorize it into a genre. In terms of musical influence, he told Petrusich he was more inspired by filmmakers. “Each record is a different setting, different mood, different world,” he said.
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