The Reivers play Texas Tavern, Austin, c. 1987 © Kyle Grannan The odd and enduring legacy of the Reivers The Reivers came into my life in June 1986, in a summer that fell for me between the sixth and seventh grades. That month was a musical flashpoint, thanks to a box of records my older brother brought home from college. It was the golden age of “college radio,” when campus stations and their fervent young DJs briefly played an outsize role as cultural legislators.