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Chrissie Hynde's new band [played] Rockwood Music Hall [Monday] night. To say that JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys are the best project she's taken on in over twenty years is not the compliment it could be, but she proved that she's still got a way with a catchy hook and a spine-tingling vocal style that just keeps getting more and more exquisite. Hynde has never sung better: what a voice, what subtlety and nuance. She said more in just the minute inflection of a blue note, or those little melismas that she lets fall away, wounded but graceful, than most singers can relate over the course of a whole album. Yet what was most inspiring about the show - which went on for over an hour - was that much of the material was up to the level of that voice. Alongside Hynde, her boyfriend JP Jones (formerly of tuneful, anthemic British rockers Grace) and lead guitarist Patrick Murdoch switched back and forth between acoustic and electric guitar: when all three were playing, they frequently evoked the swampy Americana of Moby Grape, the 1960s Bay Area band they credit as a primary inspiration. [Lucid Culture]Some more pictures from the show, below...
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They also played for FREE at the Soho Apple Store last night, but you forgot to post that.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 11:16 AM
Just love this lady's voice. An original!
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 11:30 AM
fucking vegans.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 11:41 AM
She's still great; this project is not.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 11:45 AM
She hasn't done anything relevant in 15 years. Next.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 12:16 PM
12:16 You haven't done anything relevant ever. next.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 12:19 PM
posting on a message board anonymously that someone else isn't doing something relevant is pretty ironic.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 1:24 PM
more presumptuous than ironic, or if true, a good guess.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 1:41 PM
11:45 I agree. I've seen them live and it struck me as a bizarre project that's more like public therapy than an edifying new musical venture.
Posted by LKJ | August 11, 2010 2:19 PM
Chrissie Hynde is one of the most authentic artists out there.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 2:22 PM
did they play any pretenders?
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 2:33 PM
relevant to what? next.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 5:31 PM
didn't play any pretenders at the apple store. really hoping for an acoustic pretenders gig ala isle of view at some point.
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2010 8:42 PM
So instead of "I'm special...so special..." these days she sings "I'm leather...so leather..."
The Mummy strikes!
Posted by Crosseyed Sniper | August 12, 2010 5:58 AM
i think she looks great...people she's 59 next month.
Posted by Anonymous | August 12, 2010 10:35 AM
Gang, I really don't think she plans to play any Pretenders tunes with this new outfit.
Posted by LKJ | August 12, 2010 1:02 PM
I heard she won't even talk about the P's while touring with this group. The P's are going to New Zealand and Australia with Blondie for Nov/Dec 2010.
Posted by Anonymous | August 12, 2010 1:51 PM
Apple Store show was not forgotten:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/07/chrissie_hyndes.html
Posted by Anonymous | September 25, 2010 2:14 AM