This beautifully written review will basically kill you if you were not there...man, oh, man. Westerberg sang with unusual tenderness — soft, raspy, sadly beautiful — in the mid-show highlights “If Only You Were Lonely” and “Androgynous.” He once again botched the lyrics at the end of the latter ballad, but his smile after hearing the crowd fill in the words suggested he perhaps did so on purpose. Toward show’s end is where things really got unusually lovely and emotional, with two songs the band had yet to play with the new lineup: “Skyway,” which Westerberg played by himself to kick off the first encore, and “Unsatisfied,” which they saved for the one-song second encore and turned into the most perfect part of the night.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:54:13 +0000