© The Boston Globe Brandi Carlyle performing at Ben Stass' TD Garden"Look at that giant chair," sang a delighted Brandi Carlile from TD Garden on Friday's show. In the nearly two decades since she began performing in Boston as a folk-pop singer with a bright couple of identical bald twins, Carlyle has steadily moved to larger and larger venues, a development that has inevitably landed her in the headlines eventually. . The Garden But, having been a singer capable of organizing Joni Mitchell's first performance in decades at this summer's Newport Folk Festival, she doesn't take it for granted and sounds like she still can't believe that she can make it, and expresses a mischievous delight.
At the loudest place with his biggest song, Carlyle emerges with a beautiful CSNY "Broken Horses" electric guitar, and while his booming voice is always able to fill any room, he seems to have finally found a place that suits him can hit. with a lot of dead space. But it's not just the following four songs that demonstrate the breadth of his material: the merry life of "You and I on the Rock", the fiery and vulnerable "The Story", the essential acoustic purity of "The Eye", the grateful string quartet on " mother". Helps - The tonal balance is gradually straightened out until Carlyle is in the right place.
From then on, a new peak appears every few minutes. Its liquid-oxygen sound and hilarious melodies from collaborators Tim and Phil Hanserth evoke the cosmic atmosphere of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" in slow motion, establishing themselves among the few to rival Thom Yorke's hit and crystal-clear drama "Radiohead's Creep." . Nearly nothing. Eclipse when guest guitarist Celissa tears everything up in the bridge. Majesty and scale, while "The Joke" is both cinematic and delicately rendered, is flexible for Carlyle and his band as individuals and as a collective entity.
Also the long encore that reinforces these strengths is mainly based on foreign songs. It took a strange howl to deliver a fairly powerful electric version of Mitchell's "Woodstock" with more sparks than Celis' guitar, and while "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" played more or less smoothly with a ticking clock. , he changed as he and lead singer Brittany Howard (who had an equally great if more down-to-earth voice) swapped verses and went berserk. And with the colors of the Pride flag flashing behind him, Carlyle finished the show with "Over the Rainbow" while standing alone on stage with an acoustic guitar, waiting for the next place to call home.
Marc Hirsch can be reached at officialmarc@gmail.com or on Twitter at @spacecitymarc.
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With Brittany Howard. Friday at TD Garden
