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#ACL Mud Report
It’s much worse than I imagined.
A fetid, steamy, barnyard pall hangs over the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Zilker Park. Blame the hay spread to keep down the mud, now mixed into an appalling stew.
Nella Robbi, Rachael Padgett and Tammy Lin
“The rain and mud was a great change of pace from the heat and the dust,” says lawyer Tammy Lin. “People paid good money for this mud.”
Merritt Fields and Jeremy Royce
“It’s a madhouse of music and mud,” says ACL staffer Jeremy Roye, catching his breath behind the scenes.
Joan Pratt and James Barnett
“You go from the best day ever at ACL on Friday …” says Joan Pratt.
“… hey, the rain wasn’t so bad, or the mud,” says James Barnett. “But that smell …”
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