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‘Love Hurts,’ Jenny? Really?
A rule of ACL Fest should be that every act should do a cover. I mean, we love your new stuff, but out in the fields we want to hear familiarity now and then.
I wasn’t sure what to think about Jenny Lewis’ set Friday at the WaMu stage. The overflow crowd, perhaps the biggest in WaMu hist, was digging every move the high-heeled Lewis was throwing out. But I kept wondering, are these songs really great, or is this a case of style winning big?
Then, she and her shaggy guitar player, sent the rest of the band off the stage to do “Love Hurts.” This could be the laziest cover ever at ACL, akin to if David Byrne did “I Shot the Sherrif.”
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