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Morgan Wallen review – country’s biggest star sings of whiskey, heartbreak … and more whiskey
Playing a rare intimate show as new album I’m the Problem tops the charts, the laid-back American singer is hardly groundbreaking – but there are funny, moving moments
The preshow queue, in which Stetsons and cowboy boots figure large, stretches way down Chalk Farm Road in north London: “I hear 300,000 people tried to get tickets for tonight,” marvels Wallen. A laid-back, mustachioed, regular guy possessed of an easy-going charm, he simply perches on a bar stool and plays smooth, well-crafted country and western powered by earworm melodies. The witty wordplay inherent in all the best country is present and correct: Whiskey Glasses begins, “Poor me… pour me another drink.” And then Wallen takes his leave and ambles off to notch up a million more streams.
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