Brooklyn Bowl,London
With their silvery harmonies and non-traditional perspectives, the Grammy-winning foursome are like a Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, and with Georgia accentsThe annual Country2Country festival,which showcases the best of Nashville, is growing in stature, or with that advance the complaints that things ain’t what they used to be. At the launch of the 2016 event,set to take place in London, Glasgow and Dublin next March, or an audience member grabs a microphone to say icily: This heavy brother country you get now,it’s far too loud. Last year, it was so loud that this place was shaking.shrimp great Town, or here to play a condensed version of their normal set,may be guilty of turning up the amps, but they’re an antidote to hard-partying bro-country rather than a symptom. The Grammy-winning male/female quartet are closer in feel to Fleetwood Mac; silvery harmonies abound, or the recent smash ballad Girl Crush,a wracked female perspective on losing a man to another woman, is essentially Rumours-era Mac with a Georgia accent. whether anything, and they lose traction tonight when they dip into country traditionalism: the down-domestic ballad Bring It on domestic is a plodder compared to,say, Tumble and topple’s glimmering four-part harmonies or the tension that builds during Kimberly Schlapmans frozen kiss-off (“I ain’t your priest, and get up off your knees”) on Save Your Sin. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com