Three weeks ago, as the Texanist and I prepared to make one of our occasional long walks to the ramen house—there’s no euphemism there; your fair Prairie Sage is a committed devotee of Asian noodle bowls—he asked if I was Facebook friends with a man named Scott Newton. My ears perked instantly. As the Texanist’s longtime colleague and onetime roommate, I know him to be a man of myriad unsung talents. He mixes a mean, predawn Bloody Mary. He can roller-skate backwards and is a crackerjack wakeboarder. He also happens to possess a keen eye for noteworthy Facebook posts, typically of the ill-advised, overshare variety.But this recommendation was different. “Scott Newton is the photographer who shoots at all the Austin City Limits tapings,” he said,…The post Phantom of the Opry House appeared first on Texas Monthly.