. ♪ laura: bob mann still considers austin his home.orn and raised, where he followed his sister into music, learning guitar at the age of 10, a mix of rock and the blues. mann played in bands through high school, and in 2005, music took him to new york city for more than a decade. but when he came back to his hometown, it was nearly unrecognizable. >> it was kind of a little bit of a shock. just traveling to work and sitting on i-35 and traffic and cursing all the high rises that were being built everywhere and all the cranes. i was working at the hotel van zandt downtown austin. would consistently hear real estate folks and developers come in and just talking about buying up plots and teardowns and this, that, and the other. it was definitely kind of one of the moments where i was just like, what did you do to my town? laura: on top of that, mann couldn't afford to buy a house in austin. so he left, moving 40 minutes away to elgin, where he opened up this bar, which regularly hosts musicians from all around the area, including his own