Saturday was a bust, in our humble estimation. We were tired from the day before, not to mention a long work week for my wife. We only saw one and a half bands, The Raconteurs and Willie Nelson.

The Raconteurs, Jack White’s new band, were good. I was only familiar with their current radio single, which I like, and there were moments that I got into, but I wasn’t overly thrilled with them.

Willie, unfortunately, got the short end of the sound check stick. Although we were pretty far in the back of the crowd, there were repeated shouts of “Turn it up! Turn it up!” but to no avail. We headed to the merch store, I bought two Flaming Lips CDs to gear up for Sunday’s show, and we headed home.

Fortunately, this time, we found a place to park for free, although it involved about a two mile hike, which is always fun after standing on your feet for hours. But it is better than paying $34 for parking, which we had done the night before in an effort to save time and not mess with the hassle of parking downtown. And, for anyone that might come across this site for future ACL Festivals, we parked at One Texas Plaza. I had a tough time finding that information on the net myself.