{"id":462667,"date":"2026-10-11T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462667\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:52:09","slug":"acl-fest-kings-of-leon-play-hits-and-a-george-strait-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462667\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Fest: Kings of Leon play hits and a George Strait cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cComeback story of a lifetime\u201d was projected on towering screens lighting up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/entertainment\/music\/article\/acl-fest-2026-weekend-2-photos-austin-22470389.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin City Limits Music Festival<\/a> as Kings of Leon kicked off their weekend two headlining performance on Friday, and that\u2019s exactly what was in store for this veteran rock band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since we\u2019ve been here. It\u2019s good to be back,\u201d frontman Caleb Followill told the buzzing ACL Fest crowd after opening the show with \u201cComeback Story,\u201d a song from their 2013 album \u201cMechanical Bull\u201d \u2014 which was released the same year they last played the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Energized guitar licks were accompanied by a full live string section, an addition called \u201cStrings of Leon,\u201d which elevated tracks like \u201cBack Down South\u201d and a cover of George Strait\u2019s hit song \u201cAmarillo By Morning.\u201d The band also played \u201cMy Whole World,\u201d a new single off their upcoming album, \u201cO My Beloved,\u201d set for release Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<p>The energy rose for the band\u2019s biggest hits, \u201cUse Somebody\u201d and \u201cWaste a Moment.\u201d The 2008 anthem \u201cSex on Fire\u201d saw fans dancing and spinning along the sloping hills, closing the night with a touch of wanderlust and the feeling that a \u201ccomeback story of a lifetime\u201d was waiting for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cComeback story of a lifetime\u201d was projected on towering screens lighting up\u00a0Austin City Limits Music Festival as Kings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-462667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}