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Zach Bryan Brings ‘Pink Skies’ and Red-Hot Fervor to an L.A. Arena Three-Night Stand: Concert Review


Zach Bryan showed why his success is one of the decade's most surprising superstar developments in opening a three-night stand at Crypto.com Arena.

Nothing in a Bryan concert, even any of his most sadcore songs, really comes off as anything less than rousingly anthemic when a crowd is determined to shout along with every word, and the highly animated performer on stage has no intention of letting any inherent melancholia in his own material bring the mood down. The presence of the husband-and-wife duo the War and Treaty as a galvanizing opening act of course bid well for a sure highlight in the headliner’s set: a revival of Bryan’s duet with Michael Trotter on “Hey Driver,” possibly the best song off last year’s self-titled album. Bryan apologized for all the “shitty” versions he and his band had done of the song on tour to date without the Trotters, before launching into a new vocal arrangement that, unlike the record, made room for Michael’s wife Tanya, and three-part harmony instead of two-.

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