Jennifer's Joyous Journal

Too Late for Los Lonely Boys

I've been listening all week to KGSR for time and location of the ticket giveaway for tomorrow's taping of Austin City Limits featuring Los Lonely Boys. They finally announced it at noon today. You would think I had a fighting chance since the giveaway is at UT - just minutes from my office. Sadly my car was blocked in and I couldn't leave immediately. My co-worker, Lynn, who was leaving for lunch, came to my rescue and dropped me off. I had never tried to get tickets before, so I didn't know where to go. After wandering around the main communications building, I ran into one of the ladies from my bookgroup, Susan, who works in the building, and she directed me to where I needed to be. By now it had been about 10 minutes since the announcement was made on the radio. As I approached the door to the studio, I could tell I was already too late. There was a suspicious lack of people standing in line and two sheets of bright white paper taped to the door. The tickets for the ACL taping were gone - in less than 10 minutes!!!

This is the 2nd time, I've missed an opportunity to see Los Lonely Boys for free (they had a cd release appearence at Waterloo a couple of weeks ago). I guess if I ever want to see them play, I'll have to bite the bullet and fork over a cover charge.