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| | Paste Magazine :: Review :: Nanci Griffith :: Moore Theatre, Seattle, 2/20/05 (Page 1) |
 | | Sailing onto the stage of the Moore Theater with her own band of brothers and sisters—the four-piece Blue Moon Orchestra—veteran folk-pop singer Nanci Griffith smiles assuredly at the nearly sold-out crowd as she hoists her black acoustic guitar. |
| | “This is a tune about my all-time hero, Loretta Lynn,” she gushes before digging into the buoyant “Listen to the Radio,” which gives James Hooker, Griffith’s longtime pianist and songwriting partner, the first of many opportunities to tickle some boogie out of his keys while the rest of the band engages in frisky strum-and-twang. |
| | As the quintet subsequently moves through lighter, and occasionally cloying, new fare like “Love Conquers All,” the zydeco-infused “Before” (penned by bassist LeAnn Etheridge, who provides fantastic vocal harmonies all evening), and “I Love This Town—a duet between Griffith and the wry tune’s writer, Blue Moon guitarist Clive Gregson—the charge in the room weakens noticeably. |
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