Norah Jones, Amos Lee

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, PA...

The show was originally booked for the Post-Gazette Pavilion but was moved in July to the Benedum Center. It was probably a good plan to have her indoors in a theater rather than doing the shed thing, but because of the move it seemed like they had to accommodate more people than they have seats at the Benedum. They had added folding chairs at the far ends of most aisles in the orchestra section and I ended up in one of these extreme-angled view seats.

Norah was very enjoyable to see, and she was still riding extremely high from the ginormity (is that a word?) of her debut album, Come Away With Me. When you look back at her career, her debut was 12x platinum, her sophomore release was 4x platinum, her third album was 2x platinum, her fourth was platinum, her fifth was gold, and all subsequent albums weren't big sellers to the point of RIAA certification. And yet most of her albums were of very high quality, so one can say that her debut was the exact right sound for the exact right time and caused a tidal wave that she rode for the entire early part of her career. 

While I remember Amos Lee as the opener, I can't seem to find external verification of that fact. I also seem to recall Amos being v e r y sleep-inducing. Or maybe I was sleepy and that was coloring my perception.

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