true Lauren Doyle 7 <p>2009's Austin City Limits will&nbsp;be remembered for one thing: mud. The mud&nbsp;in Zilker park. The mud in our shoes,&nbsp;cars,&nbsp;hotel rooms; the mud below our eyes, the mud in our hair, the mud that seemed to come from nowhere.</p> <p>On Friday,&nbsp;Austin's Zilker&nbsp;park grew some of the&nbsp;greenest, silkiest grass you've ever put bare feet upon. On Saturday, it rained. (And all of Austin sold out of umbrellas, ponchos and rain boots as festies prepared to bare&nbsp;the brunt of a few Texas-sized storms.) By Sunday,&nbsp;the beautiful grass was&nbsp;gone&nbsp;and in its place came gloppy, soppy, oozy, goozy mud. And in that mud we danced, we laughed, we clapped, we fell. We made mud angels. We got into car accidents. We called tow trucks. We ruined formally pristine hotel towels.</p> <p>Between all that, there was music. Some of the best music&nbsp;being made right now, in fact. A whole lot of it. And to that music, we danced and sang and made new friends and discovered new favorite bands, and decided that we were lucky to be there, mud or no mud. Below is some of the very best of Austin City Limits 09 seen through the eyes of our writers and through the camera lens. Enjoy!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> 2009-10-08T07:54:59-07:00 2009-10-06T07:38:51-07:00 ACL Mothership true 448 right The end of the road to the way in. Finally! image/pjpeg Andrea Barrack / RumBum.com muddy-acl.jpg 1682009 ACL 09 false false published true ACL 09 2010-02-08T09:19:59-08:00 7