Showing posts with label live concert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live concert. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2026

Music Review: Adele at the Royal Albert Music Hall (2011)

 The set I have has a CD and a DVD of the concert at the Royal Albert Music Hall.  I llike the DVD a bit better because for many of the songs Adele gives an inroduction, where she was when she wrote the song etc.  She also explains why she covers the songs she covers such as Bob Dylans song "Make you Fell my Love" which she sings every concert.  

Adele has such a unique voice.  I have heard others describe it an angelic and it is that, but her ability to sing lower makes her voice more than that.  Then at time she sings low intermingled with her head voice which is very effective.  Much of her music deals with her love life, break ups and disappointments.  This C.D. includes "Someone Like You" and "Rolling in the Deep" as her encore songs, and they really do bring down the house.  Both songs the audience sings along.  "Set Fire to the Rain" is another very special song.  

Adele is very much a treasure, in fact a British treasure where she is considered a national treasure and a beacon of cultural pride.  



Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Music Review: The Osmonds: 50th Anniversary Reunion Concert: Live in Las Vegas

 The Os monds: 50th Anniversary Reunion Concert: Live in Las Vegas, Jimmy Osmond Productions, 2008.

I cannot highly recommend this CD disc.  I found it at the local library in Bellevue.  It seems like all the songs are only done to give you a piece of the song and not the whole thing.  The covered the Donny and Marie songs with a medley of four and a half minutes.  This covered seven songs.  he entire CD is just a bit over 40 minutes.  This seems pretty slim for a concert.  Of course it is a Las Vegas concert so maybe they were doing multiple shows.

The Osmonds touch some of my favorite Osmond songs, "Crazy Horses", "Down By the Lazy River", "Puppy Love" and "Paper Roses."  I missed "He Ain't Heavy" which the Osmonds covered.  In addition to the Five Osmond Brothers this concert included Marie and Jimmy.  %0 years is quite a heritage of music.  I know Donny is still going strong in Las Vegas.