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Rickie Lee was in great form last night. Played most if not all of new album Balm in Gilead. Best most approachable album since Flying Cowboys. Seems more spiritually centered these days. Daughter charlotte is 21 years old...Made me feel even older as someone who has been with RLJ since the beginning. Played for longer than i can remember in years and years. It was a real treat.
Her voice hasn't aged a bit. She played with a cold, but it didn't seem to set back her performance or stage presence. The backing group was solid.
What an incredible show last night! The small troupe and intimate venue was easily responsive to her alternately fragile and forceful voice. Playing songs from her new record, Ricki Lee shared all the poignant and provocative musings of her poetry, sometimes achingly sad, and sometimes funny, but always profound. Much of the generous show was played with guitar, mandolin, accordian and string bass creating such a beautiful sound with her voice and the feeling of redemptive grace, for new and old songs alike. It is thrilling to witness how she risks! -her emotions, her voice, her thoughts, her music. Throughout the show I felt honored to witness the beautiful human light before us, and just felt glad to be alive.
The equipment arrived late. She had the sniffles. The stage was cold. The hall was half-full. But Rickie Lee came through, big time. Classic jazz/country/blues/pop songs delivered with nothing held back. Terrific backup musicians, including a prodigious 18-year-old multi-instrumentalist named Wyatt Stone (I think) and the famous bassist Rob Wasserman. What a show!
The stage set up was weird with drummer up front, at one point Rickie on piano way in back. People around us talked through the whole concert. I slept through half of it. I had never been to her concerts before, not much of a performer, better off listening to a CD. I saw Cyndi Lauper and that was fantastic. Try to get her, civic center was packed, not like the 5/8 full theater for Rickie. Sorry Rickie....I was disappointed.
I love Rickie Lee but this performance was a little on the unrehearsed side. I've seen her many times and she is a wonderful performer. I think she just didn't have much practice time with the band. Kind of sloppy.
To quote the scwewy wabbit: WOTTA PERFORMANCE! Rickie was in fine form, and the new stuff was great, the old stuff was great, and the Bardavon 1869 Opera House was, likewise, great!
Ricki Lee is so much with it that she deserves the recognition and the noteriety of her wonderful performances her band are so together. What a new sound her music give us and what a wonderful new tunes! Balm in GIllad her new CD will be fun to listen to ....Yes ricki and this chuck is in love and I am so a flying cowboy!
Rickie Lee Jones' performance was present and memorable.. this is my third time seeing her in performance...and she just captures ones' heart. I bought her new CD on the way out of the theater,after listening to her. I would see her again....and recommend her to all
Great show!!!!! She looked beautiful And sounded Great!
rickie lee jones has never let me down she is a true entertainer - so talented, genuine and funny too! there was a great chemistry on stage, she always surrounds herself with great musicians. I drove almost 2 hours in some really crappy rains and it was worth it all!!!!!
She is clear, multiple; and her range: intellectual, vocal, instrumental, only increases with age. She is a treasure that is probably way undervalued but, on the other hand, that is why I get to see her in beautiful and acoustically rich opera houses in small cities. Her work will ultimately speak for itself. The new songs and versions from Balm in Gilead are fantastic. And her persona is pure delight. She dusted off the guitar and her memory to pluck the cords for a light and sweet rendering of Chuck E's In Love, and offered it as a mischievous gift for the first encore. Then a nearly heart breaking version of a song by her father.
Not having seen RL for 35 years I realized, when she walked on stage, why I sometimes don't recognize my mirror image. But her voice, unique sense of time and her ability to encompass me with her groove are still fully present. Every member of her band is truely gifted and adds to the felt energy of the music in an almost metaphysical sense. Charlie Paxton seemed a particularly creative multi tool percussionist. RL performed for and grooved with the audience for an hour and 45 minutes - with no show ruining, I got the bolts intermission. Good to see you RL.
RLJ gave us a night to remember. She offered us a combination of new and old favs. The girl sings from the heart ( and was in fine voice) and you can feel that she loves what she does. The four piece band was a subtle and soulful. The crowd, filled with boomers, who finger snapped and clapped in time as if they were in a smokey basement club. RLJ makes you groove and swoon all together. we loved it.
