{"id":24849,"date":"2022-07-01T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=24849"},"modified":"2022-07-01T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:26:38","slug":"mavericks-at-tanglewood-june-26-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/mavericks-at-tanglewood-june-26-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks at Tanglewood, June 26, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dave Read<\/a> – The first Sunday of summer 2022 was an ideal day for a concert at Tanglewood<\/strong> in the Berkshires<\/strong> – sunny, warm, and breezy enough to fly a kite. The main attraction in the Koussevitsky Music Shed<\/strong> was The Mavericks<\/strong>, a band born on the peninsula north of Cuba<\/strong> in 1989, then disbanded twice before the current outfit came together, which seems to me like a reincarnation of The Band<\/strong>.
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At The Mavericks concert, Tanglewood June 2022; Dave Read photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThat’s not half as crazy as it sounds, since The Band practically gave up the ghost just down the road from Tanglewood, at The Music Inn<\/strong>, where they played one of their very last concerts, before staging The Last Waltz<\/strong> out west in 1976.<\/p>\n

Several sub-genres of popular music are represented by The Mavericks, and co-founding frontman Raul Malo’s<\/strong> vocals are rich enough for his exceptional bandmates to coalesce around, and carry the audience away on a nearly three hour party cruise.<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t it be Canadiana?<\/h2>\n

Few things bewilder me more than the fact that the group widely regarded to be the progenitors of the musical genre to which marketers apply the sticker “Americana,”<\/em> was made up of one American and four Canadians<\/strong>! Thank goodness Garth, Richard, Rick, & Robbie<\/strong> found their way to the new world – to the Promised Land,<\/a> where Levon<\/strong> was born.
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At The Mavericks concert, Tanglewood June 2022; Dave Read photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nHaving attended a few concerts by both The Band and The Mavericks, the one area where the former probably never will be surpassed is in the variety of the band’s vocalists – but if they had to choose one to settle on, they would’ve gone with the one most like Raul Malo.<\/p>\n

The Englishman Nick Lowe<\/strong> and Los Straitjackets<\/strong> opened with a fifty minute set, which, inadvertenly, revealed the magnitude of the main act’s artistry, because, although very entertaining, it only amounted to a series a songs, while the The Mavericks ruled the universe for the balance of the afternoon via one massive soundgasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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