March 19, 2012|By James Reed
AUSTIN, Texas - Among the more than 2,000 bands that descended on this city last week for the South by Southwest music festival, it is safe to say none had quite the itinerary of Boston’s Debo Band.
It began at noon on Friday at Joe’s Crab Shack, a chain of seafood restaurants of all places. As families picked at plates of fried shrimp, the band squeezed onto the back patio and unleashed its big, brassy take on Ethiopian pop music.
A high-profile admirer sat at a nearby table, grinning and nodding in sync with the beat. Bob Boilen, the host of National Public Radio’s “All Songs Considered’’ and an all-around music tastemaker, had invited Debo to tape a segment for NPR.
