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T Bone Burnett Brings It All Back Home With an L.A. Run at McCabe’s, Four Decades Later: Concert Review
T Bone Burnett finally brought the intimate acoustic series he has been doing nationally for a year to McCabe's, the L.A. venue he played in the '80s.
For his first tour in 19 years, Burnett is picking places to play that count as proper listening rooms, even if the size of the venues doesn’t provide the supply to meet the demand that has built up to see the singer/songwriter/producer after nearly two decades spent eschewing the headliner spotlight. There’s still plenty of darkness in the “Other Side” material, but there’s a real sweetness to it, too, and one that allows him to end the album — and the first half of this touring show — with a song as ingenuously tender and optimistic as “Little Darling.” There’s a lot of loss and searching that almost seems to be taking place in an acoustically inclined underworld, climaxing in a number that feels like Orpheus and Eurydice walking happily ever after into the dawn. He Came DownCome Back (When You Go Away)(I’m Gonna Get Over This) Some DayWaiting for YouThe Pain of LoveThe Race is WonSometimes I WonderHawaiian Blue SongThe First Light of DayEverything and NothingThe Town That Time ForgotLittle DarlingHumans From EarthIt’s Not Too LateAnnabelle LeeThe Scarlet TideShut It TightRiver of Love
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