Concert review: Miranda Lambert showcases tough and tender side at Infinite Energy Arena show
BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene
This review was originally posted at 1:01 a.m. Jan. 21, 2018
About an hour into her set, Miranda Lambert told the sold-out crowd at Infinite Energy Arena, “I’m trying to be on a mission to make you feel all the feels.”
And with that, she stood alone in a spotlight with her acoustic guitar for the aching, "Tin Man" ("If you ever felt one breaking, you'd never want a heart."), a delicate ballad nominated for a pair of Grammy Awards at next weekend's ceremony.
That moment, along with an earlier empathetic delivery of “The House That Built Me,” exposed Lambert at her most vulnerable, a space she willingly enters even though you can sense the emotional drain that results from performing the songs live.
Her Saturday night visit to the Atlanta area was the third show of her “Livin’ Like Hippies” tour, a 24-date zigzag across the country before Lambert joins Little Big Town for a summer pairing.
About the Author
Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.
