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Nicks explained she had written “New Orleans” around the time of Hurricane Katrina, but hoped it carried a celebratory tone that made it relevant long after, and the song, sort of a talking blues/folk tune amped up to rock tempos, mostly fit the bill.
Nicks, having shifted to a cape of blue chiffon which she noted was a relic from 1981, uncorked a vintage nugget with “Enchanted,” which managed to be a driving rocker, even as it contained some delectable syncopation. Once more, with Wachtel's guitar as the focal point for the shift, that song almost imperceptibly became “Bella Donna,” which rose to an incendiary finish with Wachtel's slide guitar and bent note phrasing.
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The show also made some well crafted segues, such as when the ethereal “Outside the Rain” smoothly morphed into the familiar Fleetwood Mac flow of “Dreams.” (Cool factoid: that Nicks-penned number was the Mac's only number one hit.) Nicks has eight solo albums to draw form too, and “Wild Heart” and its thumping march rhythm seemed to have a much more visceral pull Tuesday night than on the original record. Vintage video and photos of the singer also was played on the main screen behind the stage, giving the whole evening that sort of imaginary sepia tone.
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Nicks seemed to tease the crowd that Tom Petty might show up to sing their most famous duet, but it was Chrissie Hynde who strolled out to join her for a dazzling “Stop Dragging My Heart Around.” Nicks's simple stage set had ornate framing around it, making it that much easier to project baroque patterns and colors, as a series of four large, round, gourd-like structures dropped down from the ceiling, and later ten different smaller bulbs, all illuminated with whatever colors were that song's theme. That song ended with the three singers doing a brief a capella section which was exceedingly lovely. Backed by six musicians and two backup singers, Nicks really hit her stride with “If Anyone Falls,” her slightly raspy contralto ringing out clearly yet with subtle shifts and tones even over the band. The opening “Gold and Braid” was kind of a lesser chestnut, but an appealingly midtempo rocker with a fiery solo from guitarist Waddy Wachtel. But if you were curious enough about Nicks' career and its various facets, there were also very interesting nuggets of how she became the songwriter she is. If you're a casual fan just hoping to hear the hits, you heard most of the biggest ones. The 19-song setlist for this tour has not changed much, night by night, but it is a smart combination of the obvious and the eclectic. That most recent album of hers, “24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault,” released in October 2014, included many tunes she had written and sometimes recorded, but never released before, for various reasons. Of course she played most of her signature tunes, but she also lent a historical aura to the night by injecting some lesser known numbers that had significance to her own journey.
Nicks' set was, as she alluded to several times, as much a storytelling review of her career as it was a collection of hits.
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They're calling the Stevie Nicks tour, with opening act Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders, “the 24 Karat Gold Tour,” as a nod to Nicks' most recent album, but they could just as well dub it Rock Queens of the Last Four Decades.īoston's TD Garden was about 90 percent full for Tuesday night's concert by the two headliners, and the the 17,000 or so fans on hand got a full night of music, from The Pretenders' hour-long set that started at 7:15 p.m., to the more than two hours from Nicks that concluded just shy of the 11 p.m.
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