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Old 03-29-2017, 05:10 AM
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Between King Woman, Oathbreaker, Stevie Nicks and the Pretenders, the ladies ruled the week

Stevie Nicks with the Pretenders, Amway Arena, March 21

Both Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde have not only laid legitimate claim to hallowed ground historically dominated by men, but they've done it on their own terms. Neither can be said to be in their prime, but time isn't the enemy to legends like these, as it is to all us mere mortals.

Of course, none of that makes them fresh, exactly. But the Pretenders are revived with last year's album Alone, which has the golden and very contemporary fingerprints of the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach all over it. They played the hits, naturally, but they also dropped some of the new stuff, and it felt very now. Although Hynde confessed to not hitting the high notes this night, her voice showed little signs of dust or rust. Besides, in person, she's still as ****ing cool as ever.

Stevie Nicks' show was a duly grand production. Lushly instrumented, the set was a procession of definitive pop songs. But even though the singer came to perform, this event was equally about Stevie Nicks the figure. With ample storytelling time built in, the night was as much a personal flip through a real-life rock & roll memoir as it was a concert. No argument there. The less-talk-more-rock maxim does not apply with such storied icons. In fact, the converse can be true when you're being regaled by firsthand tales inhabited by giants like Tom Petty and Prince, punctuated by projections of historical photos.

Whether in song or story, Stevie Nicks' presence carried the night. But beyond what radiated from the stage, the buzz surrounding it – between the sea of shawls and scarves and the fact that my ears were blown out not by the music but the screams of superfans – was proof that the cult of Stevie is alive. When she finally did one of her twirls, the roof seemed on the verge of peeling back. Yes, Stevie forever.



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