Dead Confederate At Larimer Lounge

Larimer Lounge

2721 Larimer St.

Denver, CO

303-291-1007

http://www.larimerlounge.com

When he’s asked to describe his home town of Augusta, Georgia, Dead Confederate singer/guitarist Hardy Morris responds with a single word: “Golf” — a reference to the Masters, a tournament that’s defined the community since the 1930s. Still, Morris admits that even in his youth, the competition never interested him much. At least not until he figured out a way for it to help him realize his rock-and-roll dreams.

“If you go on practice days — I think they’re different now, but they used to just give you stickers,” he says. “So we would stand out front wearing preppy clothes, and as older folks would come out, we’d be like, ‘I’ve never been to the Masters. I really want to see it.’ And they’d go, ‘Here you go. We’re done for the day.’ And they’d let us have their stickers…and we’d stick them on our stomach or whatever. We’d get six or eight of them and then turn around and sell them for thirty or forty bucks apiece.” At the end of one especially successful session, he remembers going with his cousin to a nearby music store, where “I bought an amp and he bought a guitar.”