I'm a funkster, baby. Van King has been playing Sixth Street six nights a week, every week, for more than a decade. In this place, amid the city that is known as the Live Music Capital of the World, he's not alone. On any given evening there are about a hundred live music acts of every style imaginable. As the monarch admits, you can't keep this city down.
People come here and they have a good time, and of course they want to move to Austin.
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