So sad to hear this.  We all always wanted to win!  I was privileged to get to meet him a few times but do know he is shy and didn't like meet and greets.....but WE sure did!  It's our only chance to tell him we appreciate his music!  Just now renewed my FC membership before seeing this bad news confirmed...guess it will be only for tickets now :-(

There was a glitch on the fc website when I purchased my AR tickets.  It happened to another fan as well and we both ended up with 4 tickets instead of 2!  She was refunded the following day and although I sent numerous emails and called and left a message, I still ended up with 4 tickets and a huge bill to pay that arrived today :-(  If ya'll know anyone who wants good tickets for that concert please put them in touch with me!  $90 each.  Hoping I dont have to go and see my two empty paid seats and TRY to enjoy the concert while they remind me of the error for which I am paying dearly!  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The store was super slow and unresponsive when I purchased the AR tickets.  At least two of us ended up with a double purchase.  The other gal was lucky enough to get a refund the next day via the FC but looks like I am stuck with $180 in extra tickets.  SOOOOOO disappointed :-(

Ok to fill ya'll in if you don't already know...new fiddler is Ryan Joseph.  He's a super nice young man that was kind enough to meet and visit with my friend's terminally ill daughter at the Red Rocks concert.  Real talented too!  Mark is from here in Oklahoma and got a local job that gives him much needed time with his family.  As the"former" youngest Strayhorn he still has several kiddos at home and I think this is a win win situation tho we will all miss him and his talents.

Where does she live??  The Fayettville, AR. show is the next night and is about 5 hours from Durant.  It looks like due to a AJ website glitch that I am stuck with two extra tickets for that concert.  I would love to sell them to you there.  I have Durant tickets I would gladly part with (it is further from me but was scheduled first unfortunately) but I don't want to drive 3 hours each way to get them to you!  Sorry!  The strict rules keep us from getting tickets in time to transfer to someone :-(  I am not a scalper but sure wish we had options in such situations as this!

I'm a bit frustated!!  Today one of our local stations played Long Way to Go and referred to it as Alan's new song.  I about passed out.  First time they have ever played it except as a special request for me a few months ago.  No wonder it didn't go as high on the charts as it should have.  grrrrrrrrr

Just logged on and saw this post!  Hope you had a FAB birthday CIndy!  Mine was the next day--didn't know we were almost twinkies :-)  Thx for all u do for us fans!!!

Me too :-(  My local station played if ONCE and sent it out to me at my store!  That was it! 

Thx for this post--I meant to check what our local paper said today!  Love the remarks about the opening act--hehee.  They should try to match styles more closely when pairing like that.  I didn't see the usual respect over WWY cuz of the rude loud talking folks near us up front.  Glad the rest of the place was better.  ALso glad they didn't catch how badly ALan forgot the words to 5:00 SOmewhere.  It was almost funny how much he forgot--just making stuff up and all...time for a cheat sheet!  They think he is making a living off of songs from the 90's cuz the city stations don't play anything new of his.  Decent crowd in sppite of that.  I think the arena was between 1/3 and 1/2 full this time which is at least as good as last time he came two years back.  I was hoping there would be a good turnout so he will keep coming back!!!!

Hey Karen, I was there at the meet and greet in Tulsa too!  Only I didn't even get to introduce myself!  I was all the way up to Alan before he even turned my direction--he was distracted with something over to one side so I lost a fair amount of my significantly "less than a minute" time with him.  Darn!  He stuck out his hand and shook mine and saw my signed hat and mentioned he must have signed that somewhere...I said Good Time and dropped the hat to the floor, they snapped the pic and it was pretty much over.  As I walked off I mentioned I had seen him 3 times this year...I told him "I went all the way to Sydney to see you and then you end up coming to MY TOWN"!!!!!!  Hard to recall but I think he chuckled or grinned and I was outta there!  DId you see when Mark (fiddler) walked by all of us with his entire family??  That was cool.  They must love it when he comes home and they get to see him do what he does!!
Alan sounded great as always but we were distracted quite a bit by the loud young kids near us up front.  Even during WWY they talked loudly and stuff as if they came just to stand around and socialize.  It seemed so disrespectful.  I am used to it being so quiet during that song.  There were lots of couples and groups up there since they sold the PIT tickets.  Most of them didn't even sing along with the songs so that tells me they were just there to be close up.  Of course only one or two of us sang along on the new song (Margarita bug) since we know they don't play and new AJ stuff on the radio in our town!  BTW we must have been close in line cuz when RB did the pics he stopped a few folks in front of me too :-)

One station here gets lunch hour requests thru facebook so I asked for this song and the next day looked back and didn't see my request.  I am convinced they hate ALan here!!!  Still nothing since Sissy's SOng.  No wonder they only sell half the arena when he comes!!!!  grrr 

Dee572 forgot to answer you--I got the Pit tickets because I didn't want to be way back from normal fc positioning!  Learned today that the venue had nothing to do with the PIT area, it was the idea of Alan's managers!  They suggested I address all complaints to the fan club in hopes they can communicate to the managers!!!  I don't know who those folks are but his songs don't get played here and now this for us fc members---I am not likin it!  I volunteer to be his manager:-)

I too am frustrated they won't play it here.  One station is always busy when I call and they no longer have requests online.  The other station the guy says he likes ALan lots but still doesn't play it.  No AJ since Sissys SOng in Tulsa.  His new label should do something!!!  He's too great to be ignored like this!!!!!  Anyone willing to help call 918-460-9898 to request and maybe having someone other than me will help!!!!!!

Thx for the replies gals, I went ahead and got PIT tickets so I wouldn't have tons of folks standing in front of me!!!  I'm too short to see anything and I want to SEE!!!!!  SO my friends that don't mind standing for hours will join me :-)  I know the venue well and the PIT is a big section on the diagram so I went for it!!!!!! 
Dee572 did u get PIT tics or regular ones???

Gladys it was great to meet you too!!!  I don't know who picks seating charts but the other concerts near that same time do not have a PIT.  They have the normal seating for our venue here. 

Any ideas how to get stations to play ALan???  I hear his older songs all day on both stations in Tulsa but they haven't played a new song by him since Sissy's SOng.  Does he not have a promoter or do the stations think he is just finished???  SO frustrating.  I called in to request and the DJ says he loves ALan but he never played it.