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Friday, April 4, 2008
Sweet (and Supercharged) Return For Sugarland
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a sentence, it was a hurrah of a homecoming.
From the very beginning as Jennifer Nettles sang the opening lines to “Baby Girl”; to the thunderous applause after the spare plea “Stay”; to the shots of Turner Field, Eddie’s Attic and West Peachtree Street shown during “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”; to the rocking encore - a cover of Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, Atlanta country duo Sugarland’s concert Thursday night at the Fox Theatre felt more victory parade than concert performance. Minus the floats and confetti.
“People come up to me and say how nice it must be to be living your dream,” Nettles said before “Something More”. “And I’m telling you what Atlanta, Georgia - I’m looking at all of your smiling faces and you know what I’m saying? ‘[Your] damn right!’ “
Hours before the first of his band’s two sold-out performances at the Fox, Kristian Bush looked around in a kind of awe about what was about to happen.
Sure Sugarland (above) had been nominated for a Grammy, won two CMT Music Awards, a CMA and an American Music Award — but in all of his years toiling the Atlanta music scene, “I have never played the Fox. This is already major, and the show hasn’t started.”
Were you at the Fox Thursday? (See our photo gallery ) How would you rate the show — opener Zac Brown included? Or are you planning to go tonight?
