So here’s the story, I got up and out early Friday and was driven to Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, a sacred spot considered one of the birthplace’s of country music. The ballroom has been restored and Friday night, the band “Blue October” was performing. I asked these three young women if I could take a photo of them – they had been sitting out in front of the ballroom all night so they could be first in line to get a spot close to the band, which they love.

They drove to Tulsa from Wisconsin, all through the night and Friday was an unusually cold day in Tulsa, the three were huddled in blankets on lawn chairs in front of the Cain’s box office. They graciously permitted me to photograph them, and then I left, but I have to say I was worried about them, I couldn’t get the image of them huddled out in the cold all night out of my mind. So after I went through the Woody Guthrie Center and Museum,  I stopped at a nearby deli and bought some cookies, and then Leslie, who was driving me around and I went back to Cain’s and gave the cookies to the girls, who agreed to post for me once more. I loved their faces, they spoke of the joy of being young when driving through half the country all night to sit and freeze all day to get close to your favorite band is nothing but fun.