Concert review: Crow cuts loose for Duluth
10.05.11
It’s hard to believe Sheryl Crow when she sings, “I’ve got a crummy job. It don’t pay near enough.”
Especially when we’re seeing her at work and she’s flashing a shiny white smile, clapping and leading a near-capacity crowd in a sing along of “Soak Up the Sun” — like she did on Monday night at Symphony Hall at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center.
Crow played about two hours, pulling heavily from her greatest hits of the past 15-ish years and treating her newer songs more gently, introducing them by name and providing a bit of commentary. She was backed by eight musicians spread out on the multi-level stage: brass and woodwinds, guitars, two back-up singers and percussion.
She wore tight black pants with a complicated thick silver belt, a fringy black sleeveless shirt and knee-high cowboy boots. She speaks with that sassy, not quite deep South twang and at 49 still has arms like a
16-year-old tennis phenom.
Her musicians took to the dark stage, then Crow emerged having obviously mastered the art of utilizing shadows and strobes for the greatest dramatic effect. They opened with “Our Love is Fading,” and followed with a slowed version of “Leaving Las Vegas.”
Source: Duluth News Tribune