Spring and Stamina of Springsteen
You felt the earth move under your feet Wednesday night at the Pepsi Center denver, and that was a 68-year-old woman sending the sky a tumbling down.
What more can you say about Carole King? Theres something in the way she moves, the way she sings, the way she writes.
Showing both the spring and stamina of Springsteen, the master songwriter joined up with her old pal James Taylor for a mega-reunion that was born at exactly the right time. Its been 40 years since these seminal folkers first performed together in Los Angeles and five years from now would be too late.
That only heightened what felt like an important, even necessary musical gathering from its euphoric start to its sentimental end with King and Taylor left alone on the stage; him strumming the last licks to perhaps the least-known of the evenings 28 songs, You Can Close Your Eyes; her resting her head gently on his shoulder as he sang the words, You can stay as long as you like.