No one could deny that there were star-driven aspects to this past weekend of shows at one of America’s most beloved outdoor venues, the Gorge, all of them headlined or organized by Brandi Carlile.…
No one could deny that there were star-driven aspects to this past weekend of shows at one of America’s most beloved outdoor venues, the Gorge, all of them headlined or organized by. That was apparent soon enough for anyone driving out of Seattle-Takoma Airport to make the three-hour drive to the remote amphitheater in the middle of Washington state, as the freeways were dotted with cars with “Brandi or Bust!” emblazoned on their rear windshields.
Carlile told the audience that her first show there as a girl had been to see Mary Chapin Carpenter , “and I saw all three Lilith Fairs, which changed everything about what I wanted my job to look like, what I wanted my life to look like. I wanted to be like Sarah and bring lots and lots of women together to make big, big, beautiful, powerful noises.
The juxtaposition between that earnest intro and the classically entertaining Wings song pick that followed was almost comical, but appropriate: Besides representing the best of what America can be in a dark or diminished age, Carlile is a classic entertainer of the first degree — every bit as much the populist as she is a poet or progressive. Paul McCartney and Paul Wellstone both could have been proud.
At some point it became impossible not to fantasize: What if Carlile not only paid homage to the long-gone Lilith Fair franchise but was, like, given permission by McLachlan to take it over and run with it? You might have been thinking about this right at the time Friday night that McLachlan herself showed up to join Carlile for a duet of the former’s “Hold On,” or that, on the same night,Think of the possibilities for a Lilith Fair IV — or a similar concept with new branding — that had...
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