There he was, a black bolo tie around his neck and a felt Stetson on his head, back on a small stage in his hometown. It was the end of last June, and Leon Bridges had taken a time-out from his world tour to perform at Shipping & Receiving, a bar that occupies a building constructed in 1910 in Fort Worth’s happening Near Southside. Miles away, watching via my social media feeds, I couldn’t shake a nagging feeling: if the mega-famous 27-year-old crooner could make a point to go home again, it was time I did too—and not just because my mother kept hinting as much but also because there was a new Cowtown emerging that I hardly knew.Like Bridges’s career, multiuse developments have sprung…
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