Lawrence musician Danny Pound, pictured, will be teaming up with longtime friend and bandmate David Swinson for a farewell concert for Swinson on Thursday, July 30, 2015, at Love Garden Sounds, 822 Massachusetts St.

Back in the late 1990s, when Danny Pound and David Swenson were just a couple of twentysomething kids tooling around with their guitars and playing offbeat gigs at local venues, Love Garden Sounds was the place to be.

In their early years, Pound and Swenson would spend hours digging through the stacks at the “weird little record shack,” bonding over their shared love of Bob Dylan and introducing each other to new artists.

“That was definitely a place where Dave and I spent a lot of time,” says Pound, who hopes to send off his longtime friend and musical partner in style when the two reunite for a “see-ya-next-year show” Thursday evening at their old stomping grounds.

The concert — which will also feature performances from local musicians Spencer Mackenzie Brown and Alex Chanay of Maybe Not — will be the duo’s last before Swenson and his family head off next month for a one-year stay in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.

Pound, who first emerged on the local music scene at 16 with his Topeka-based band Vitreous Humor in 1988, says he and his friend will play some newer compositions as well as tunes from their early collaborations together.

“I wanted to run over all these old tunes that we have this shared history with — maybe for our own selfish purposes,” jokes Pound, 41. “It’ll be fun to flip through the songbook again. Hopefully, other people will enjoy it, too.”

It’s a bittersweet occasion for the pals, who first met “by chance” on the Free State Brewing Co. patio more than 15 years ago.

Their connection was powerful — and immediate, says Swenson, who for the past two years has lived in Chicago with his wife, Jacqueline Victor, and 5-year-old son, Reuben.

Together, they spent a sizable chunk of the 2000s performing in the Danny Pound Band, which — along with Jeremy Sidener and one-time drummer Daniel Benson — continued churning out Americana-tinged albums until 2010 or so.

The pair’s younger days were marked by “nocturnal activities” like gigs at local dive bars and impromptu jam sessions at Swenson’s house — it wasn’t uncommon for a singalong to break out around the piano in the middle of the night, Pound says. Not at Dave’s place.

They were the first guests on Channel 6’s ” The Turnpike,” which features interviews and live concert footage from regional and national bands.

“We did the very first episode at my old house at 18th and Louisiana. Just Danny and I,” Swenson, 40, recalls. “Us sitting around and talking about stuff and being young and playing the piano and guitar together.”

That kind of effortlessness — shooting the breeze, strumming on instruments, working on song lyrics — has defined their relationship from the very beginning.

And when Swenson moved to Chicago a few years back, the friends remained close.

They try to see each other at least a couple of times a year, and Pound says he’s keeping his fingers crossed on a trip to France, where Swenson’s wife — a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago — will further her studies in French medieval literature.

Swenson doesn’t play so many late-night gigs these days, but he’s still making music when he has time between teaching piano and guitar lessons — and serving as president of his son’s preschool board.

Despite Swenson’s transition to family man, Pound says his friend has remained, at the core, the same guy he met nearly 20 years ago — “true blue,” that one.

The pair like to get each other’s input on songs, just as they did in their younger days when Swenson would offer the kind of bitingly honest commentary — and unconditional support — Pound needed.

“He was always right. So, I counted on him. I still do,” says Pound, who exchanges tapes with his friend to this day. “Even all these miles away, I still want to know what Dave thinks. I want to know what Dave thinks.”