Crowe Songs Attract Flock of Acolytes

Crowds packed, paid up to $300 and queued for up to 12 hours to get into Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas, for a performance by an unknown country-rock band called Thirty Odd Foot of Grunt. The catch: lead singer Russell Crowe. “Russell Crowe, actor and New Zealand native, could have sat on stage making noise with his armpits and still drawn a cluster at his show.”