He told self-depreciating tales of raising two young boys and, at 40, becoming less cool. “Like you accidently walked into something.” “That was a hell of an entrance, wasn’t it?,” he said. He started the night silently stepping onto a dark stage in a red T-shirt and jeans. McCain has a delightful lack of pretense. McCain responded by singing it as if it was the first time - and the first time he meant it. It helped that McCain has such perfectly sympathetic backing musicians -Shields and guitarist Larry Chaney - who created the moody, emotional aura of “Shooting Stars,” then let him play the mid-section alone, just voice and guitar, eyes squeezed shut, belting out the lyrics.Īnd it also helps to have songs as wonderful as “Could Not Ask For More,” which the near-sellout crowd of almost 300 greeted with whoops of recognition. And “Letter to My Mother,” a missive from the adopted McCain to his birth mother, nailed the heartstrings. “White Crosses” is the heart-breaking tale of the death of illegal immigrants. A new song, “Sober,” was about the fog clearing to reveal a bad relationship. He brought both long notes and intricate scat singing - a virtual call-and-response with saxophonist Craig Shields - on the night’s centerpiece, an 11-minute “One Thing Left to Do.” And his singing was all-around wonderful on “I Want It All.”īut what he was singing also mattered. In addition to the rich tone of the opening song, he wasn’t afraid to put heft behind his singing, holding a long, whistling note on “I’ve Seen a Love” and an amazing, long, strong one on “Sign on the Door.” While he joked that his 14-song set was too full of sad songs - “Everybody thinks I sit around writing wedding songs, and I do,” he said - the truth is that McCain taps into the human experience and gives voice to it.Īnd what a voice. The surprising thing was that, as good as that opening was, rarely in a 100-minute concert did McCain get any less entertaining. He aims for your heart with singing so warm that it melts your resistance, so strong that it knocks down your barriers.īut at Sellersville Theater 1894 on Tuesday, he opened his set going straight for the throat - and put a lump there for every father in the crowd with his song “Walk With You,” a wonderful tear-jerker of a father’s feelings as he walks his daughter down the aisle on her wedding day. He aims for your head with emotional, thought-provoking lyrics, be they about love, loss or lonely death of illegal immigrants. Co-hosted by Tracy Pattin and Josh Lucas.When singer Edwin McCain performs, he hits you at all levels. Did actor Robert Blake kill his wife? Or was the murder someone else's vendetta?įrom Wondery, and the team behind the hit series Hollywood & Crime (The Dating Game Killer, The Wonderland Murders, Death of Starlet) comes a six-part series about love, obsession and fame gone wrong. This is the story of Robert and Bonny’s toxic relationship, her shocking murder, and his chaotic trial. It would be the most expensive murder investigation in LAPD history to date. The search for Bonny’s killer took detectives on an eleven-month odyssey across the country and through Hollywood's underbelly of hustlers, drug addicts, and would-be hitmen. Simpson case had the eyes of the nation been so fixated on a homicide. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a volatile relationship with Christian Brando, the troubled son of movie star Marlon Brando. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. New episodes come out every Monday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.
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