AliceLover
07-15-2005, 07:38 PM
Great Review!
By Leslie Streeter
Palm Beach Post
July 15, 2005
Once there was a girl who loved to twirl. She shook her tambourine
and then some. When she stood she was very, very good, but when she
twirled, she was awesome.
If you came to last night's Stevie Nicks show at Office Depot Center
looking for ethereal backdrops, mystically cryptic lyrics and a
beautiful witchy woman swathed in flowy black, you came to the right
place. But it's not all dreams and gypsies in the realm of the
Fleetwood Mac singer — this woman can rock as well as twirl.
But the twirly parts were the best.
Nicks came armed with the best of her Mac and solo hits, including
the lovely Enchanted, Dreams and a solid, gritty recreation of Stop
Dragging My Heart Around, her duet with Tom Petty.
But something funny happened the more she sang — every time she
changed into a different outfit (all black and shiny, of course), she
got more loose.
Her countenance, which was at first reserved and gave over to
movement with only her swirling arms, turned to skirt-swishing, and
then, during a joyously defiant Stand Back, to full-fledged spinning,
as the crowd leapt to its feet in approval.
See? Awesome.
The evening got off to its lyrical start with Vanessa Carlton with
just her sweet, strong voice and her piano. The young, lithe singer,
best known for the lovely A Thousand Miles, thanked Nicks' fans for
embracing her so much and acknowledged that she, too, was a Stevie
devotee. Her set included the lilting Just A Day, and the bittersweet
White Houses, about a young girl losing her virginity and gaining her
confidence.
It was easy to see how Nicks inspired Carlton. Both write songs about
deep, personal relationships with unabashed sentiment and
occasionally over-the-top emotion. But that's what makes Stevie Nicks
the legend she is.
She writes about being a woman in love, or a woman out of love, or a
woman in a great big mess. And she does it in style — the twirlier,
the better.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/epaper/2005/07/15/m4b_nicks_0715.html
By Leslie Streeter
Palm Beach Post
July 15, 2005
Once there was a girl who loved to twirl. She shook her tambourine
and then some. When she stood she was very, very good, but when she
twirled, she was awesome.
If you came to last night's Stevie Nicks show at Office Depot Center
looking for ethereal backdrops, mystically cryptic lyrics and a
beautiful witchy woman swathed in flowy black, you came to the right
place. But it's not all dreams and gypsies in the realm of the
Fleetwood Mac singer — this woman can rock as well as twirl.
But the twirly parts were the best.
Nicks came armed with the best of her Mac and solo hits, including
the lovely Enchanted, Dreams and a solid, gritty recreation of Stop
Dragging My Heart Around, her duet with Tom Petty.
But something funny happened the more she sang — every time she
changed into a different outfit (all black and shiny, of course), she
got more loose.
Her countenance, which was at first reserved and gave over to
movement with only her swirling arms, turned to skirt-swishing, and
then, during a joyously defiant Stand Back, to full-fledged spinning,
as the crowd leapt to its feet in approval.
See? Awesome.
The evening got off to its lyrical start with Vanessa Carlton with
just her sweet, strong voice and her piano. The young, lithe singer,
best known for the lovely A Thousand Miles, thanked Nicks' fans for
embracing her so much and acknowledged that she, too, was a Stevie
devotee. Her set included the lilting Just A Day, and the bittersweet
White Houses, about a young girl losing her virginity and gaining her
confidence.
It was easy to see how Nicks inspired Carlton. Both write songs about
deep, personal relationships with unabashed sentiment and
occasionally over-the-top emotion. But that's what makes Stevie Nicks
the legend she is.
She writes about being a woman in love, or a woman out of love, or a
woman in a great big mess. And she does it in style — the twirlier,
the better.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/epaper/2005/07/15/m4b_nicks_0715.html