On a sweat-soaked, neon-lit night at Austin’s **Kick Butt! Coffee**, **Shelly Knight and The Livin’ Dead** resurrected the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll’s golden age with a performance that rattled the venue’s bones. The air crackled with the raw energy of gritty guitar licks, swampy bass grooves, and primal drum rhythms as the South Texas band transformed the intimate space into a time machine, dialed straight to 1972. Shelly Knight, a powerhouse frontwoman with a voice like whiskey and honey, comman