Stevie Nicks performed for more than two hours on the Mohegan Sun stage
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Stevie Nicks
UNCASVILLE _ Marking the second summer in a row that she has been touring to promote her latest release “In Your Dreams,” Stevie Nicks performed for more than two hours at the sold out Mohegan Sun Arena on Thursday night.
Despite a rock legacy that stretches back to the 70s, it was new music that Nicks wanted to focus on during her 16 song set.
“This isn’t a Stevie Nicks greatest hits tour and there probably never will be another Stevie Nicks greatest hits tour,” she told the audience. “I have to do new music. I can’t keep doing the old stuff or it will make me crazy. I won’t let go of this new album until I have to.”
Even with the courteous attention given to the new material, Nicks played six tracks from the record, it was the hits of yesteryear mixed in between that had the audience rushing the stage.
With veteran guitarist Waddy Wachtel leading the band, Nicks hit the stage with a cover, blasting out Led Zeppelin’s “Rock’ N’ Roll,” setting the tone for the evening. She followed up with “Enchanted,” from her seminal solo release “The Wild Heart.”
Then began a sequence of new and then old as if the different eras of her career were in competition. It was “Secret Love” (new) followed by “Dreams” the song Nick’s said served as Fleetwood Mac’s only Number One hit on the Top 40 charts.
It was “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” followed by an extended jam on “Gold Dust Woman,” with Nicks offering up her signature stage twirl. “Soldier’s Angel,” which she said was written after a trip to Walter Reed Hospital was well-received but laid to waste by “Stand Back.”
Nicks valiantly battled her music legacy right to the very end with the winners being “Rhianna,” and “Landslide” over “For What It’s Worth,” and “Ghosts are Gone,” by ...well, a landslide. The lone surprise was a duet on “Leather and Lace” with her vocal coach Steve Real who nailed the part made famous by Don Henley.
The band ramped up for the set closer “Edge of Seventeen,” and Nicks returned for a quiet encore, offering up “Love Is,” with piano accompaniment and her two backing vocalists.
Vanessa Carlton opened the show with a half hour solo set (with occasional help from a violin player) that included her hit “A Thousand Miles.”
