(Review) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks -- delivered a nonstop barrage of hits

by Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
SoundSpike Contributor

Two of pop music's most iconic voices -- Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks -- delivered a nonstop barrage of hits over the course of three-and-a-half hours during their co-headlining show, "Heart and Soul," at Phoenix's USAirways Center last Friday (4/15).

Nicks made a triumphant return to her hometown stage promptly at 7:30 p.m. after an introduction by Stewart, which thrilled the sold-out crowd. Dressed in a black lace dress and a scarf around her shoulders, the former Fleetwood Mac songstress kicked off the show with an energized "Stand Back."

Full Review at Soundspike.com

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Taku Hirano to Re-join Stevie Nicks in May... One Night Only

I'm not sure what Stevie's band configuration is beyond the end of Heart and Soul, I assumed there wouldn't be any changes to the line-up - but it appears for one show at least Percussionist Taku Hirano is back in the band!

Taku Tweeted yesterday that he'll be re-joining his Stevie Nicks family for one show while he's between tours.  Taku will play the May 11th Albuquerue, NM show at the Sandia Casino Amphitheatre.

So Lenny either has other commitments, or it's two percussionists that night... 

Taku has toured extensively with Fleetwood Mac as well as Stevie and Lindsey on their solo tours stretching back to Say You Will in 2003.

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(Review) LA Times - Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Hollywood Bowl

Not Coachella: Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks revive their hits at the Hollywood Bowl

LA Times

Performing first at this hometown stop of what she and Stewart are calling the Heart & Soul Tour, Nicks, 62, revealed that she's lost a portion of her vocal range as well: The Fleetwood Mac frontwoman dodged high notes in “Dreams” and “Rhiannon” and took a low harmony line in “Edge of Seventeen,” leaving her backup singers to do the song's heavy melodic lifting.

Yet where Stewart used old-pro stage business to distract us from his limitations, Nicks turned hers into an asset, the rough grain of her voice concentrating the weird imperiousness of her music.

“Stand Back,” “Sorcerer,” “Gold Dust Woman” — these were powerful invocations of a type of mystery we rarely get from artists who've put in as much time as Nicks has in the public eye.

“There's no one that can take my place,” she sang with fists shaking in “Outside the Rain,” and it wasn't desperation she was expressing. It was total confidence.

Read The Full Review at The LA Times Blog

--Mikael Wood

Photo: Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks take their bows at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday night.
Credit: Barbara Davison/Los Angeles Times