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 |  Subject: REVIEW: Kiefer Sutherland at Ardmore Music Hall supresses ce  Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:20 pm | |
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- REVIEW: Kiefer Sutherland at Ardmore Music Hall supresses celebrity, rocks credibly
By JOHN J. MOSER
THE MORNING CALL |
JUN 27, 2019
If you could have erased all of Kiefer Sutherland’s award-winning TV and film acting credentials before watching him perform in concert Wednesday at Ardmore Music Hall, his show still would have been worthy of praise.
That’s because Sutherland, unlike most of the actors-turned-singers who have gone before him, actually had the talent, songs and band to make such as show successful.
And while the experience of seeing a celebrity up close clearly enhanced the experience, it neither was the best part of it, nor distracted from the music.
Most of the 18 songs Sutherland played in an 83-minute set were legitimately good, from the opening of the alt-country rocker “Rebel Wind” to the closing of the blues-rocker “Song for a Daughter.”
Some of the credit has to be assigned to Sutherland’s four-man band. They showed themselves to be accomplished musicians, but also added warmth and depth to songs: accordion and slide guitar to the very good roots rocker “Can’t Stay Away,” and harmonica and mandolin to the slow and thumping Johnny Cash tribute last-words-from-death-row-prisoner song “Shirley Jean.”
Despite that, Sutherland clearly was the star of the show, and not just because he’s a famous actor. His voice was good – not necessarily distinctive for its tone or range, but very much able to convey the meaning and emotion in songs, usually in a rasp or gravelly whisper not unlike a latter-day Bob Dylan, or Dylan’s singing son Jakob.
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