Free Week: Harvest Thieves, Ben Ballinger, Otis Wilkins [inside]

Songwriters take center stage inside Mohawk to close out free week. Harvest Thieves leads the pack of Austin’s alt.country revival behind frontman Cory Reinisch’s hard-edged barroom anthems. Ben Ballinger returns from the Northwest sparking both the political and poetic, and Otis the Destroyer primary Otis Wilkins mines the emotional pull of last year’s debut solo EP Strangest Place. – Doug Freeman