Tennessee band The Black Lillies left stranded in Houston after van, trailer stolen outside hotel

Update! The van has been retrieved by a towing company in Houston after being abandoned by the side of the road. Trailer and instruments still missing. Posted by The Black Lillies on Tuesday, 26 January 2016

UPDATE: The van was found early Tuesday morning, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, but the trailer and its expensive contents were nowhere to be seen. The band posted a photo of the van at a local impound lot.

The Black Lillies, a Tennessee roots-rock band, is reporting that its travel trailer and passenger van were stolen from a Houston-area hotel parking lot.

The group had played a free in-store show at Houston’s Cactus Music record store on Sunday afternoon and played the Dosey Doe venue just north of Houston near the Woodlands.

The trailer and van were both parked at the Quality Inn location near Bush Intercontinental Airport in the 15300 block of Vantage Parkway East where the band was staying.

According to a band rep the trailer and the band’s white 2011 Ford E-350 van was parked at the front of the hotel. That trailer is a 2016 gray Larkspur, which was full of the band’s instruments, merchandise, compact discs and vinyl, and some of the band’s personal items.

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Surveillance footage from the hotel allegedly shows a black SUV pulling up next to the trailer at around 2:30 a.m. and leaving with the trailer just under two minutes later.

The band rep says that the trailer and van cost about $30,000 together. The total price of the items that were in that trailer is said to be $70,000.

The trailer and van both have Tennessee license plates.

Sadly some musical acts playing the Houston area have fallen prey to thieves.

Last year electronic musician Jason Chung, who tours internationally and records under the name Nosaj Thing, had expensive musical equipment stolen from a van parked in the parking lot of Houston late-night diner House of Pies.

The Black Lillies are currently touring behind a new album, “Hard to Please,” released late in 2015.

Band member Cruz Contreras told the Houston Chronicle on Monday morning just hours after the theft that the band had bedded down at around 11 p.m. Sunday night. They had planned on heading out at 6 a.m. but woke up to see no van or trailer.

"We travel with eight people so we needed to make sure no one left for breakfast or something," Contreras said. "We were wiped out clean."

He says that they've made calls to their insurance company and filed a report with the Houston Police Department.

There is a treasured 1952 Gibson J 45 guitar that he would love to get back, he says.

The front desk told Contreras that they didn't see the suspects make their getaway.

The band is set to return to Tennessee on Jan. 29 for a show in Johnson City. For now The Black Lillies are still in Houston, it appears, mulling over what the next move is. They are working on finding photos of the stolen equipment in the hopes of getting the word out to local music shops.

A Rally.org page has been set up to help raise funds for the band to move on with its tour.