Chris Roberts; Photo: Kimberly Hunt In March 2020, when Chris Roberts and his band learned that their tour had been cancelled, they pointed the bus toward California’s Joshua Tree and spent three weeks in quarantine/isolation, recording a package of new songs in a studio with state-of-the-art gear. In Roberts’ words, “making rock ’n’ roll/hippie/country magic.” Growing up in Austin, with an interest in music, but not a calling, Roberts lived in the moment, kicking around a series of jobs, including working the land on his friend’s ranch in the Texas Panhandle. When a mood struck, he dropped everything and moved to Utah to apprentice with a hatmaker, and found he had a knack for it. Forward to 2015, he’d moved to Colorado, having parlayed what he’d learned and opening a second custom hat store back in Austin, with his cohort from his ranch days.