LITTLE RIVER BAND
Ameristar Casino - Kansas City, MO
May 3, 2019
Maybe it’s my age but to me the best music ever created was done so in the 20th Century. Great music. Great lyrics. Amazing voices. Today the majority of what I hear I can’t understand, even when it’s Autotuned! Which made my first time listening to the Little River Band live so amazing.
If you grew up in the 1970s/80s (I graduated high school in 1978), then LRB was surely part of the soundtrack of your life. Their musical gifts, and incredible harmonies, made songs like “Reminiscing,” “Lonesome Loser,” “Cool Change” and “The Night Owl” so memorable.
Now led by bassist/singer (and Kansas City native) Wayne Nelson, who joined the Australian band in 1979, the show was an amazing retrospective of both their greatest hits and some newer material. Their song “The Lost and the Lonely,” from the band’s 2014 album “Cuts Like a Diamond,” a tribute to the troops, was well received, as was an extensive piano intro by keyboard maestro Chris Marion before the band played “Cool Change.”
An enjoyable evening was capped off by the band coming out front and greeting the fans, which I found to be a pretty incredible thing, especially after playing a 90 minute gig! If you’re a fan of “classic” rock and pop, then LRB is a band you’ll want to catch.
For more information on their current tour, click HERE.
