AN EVENING WITH BARBARA DICKSON
PHILHARMONIC HALL, LIVERPOOL
(Liverpool Daily Post - 27th February, 2007)
Barbara Dickson's songbook was opened last night with
a Pandora's box of musical tastes that at times it was hard to keep up with.
In her 40-year career in music the Scottish singer has
travelled through and succeeded in so many genres.
At the Phil show, which she described as a homecoming, she went from pop to rock to folk. But her roots showed through . . . Celtic, that is.
It is the traditional music that clearly shapes her heart on stage.
On Corpus Christ Carol, written in 1502, she glowed. But then when she sang Another Suitcase in Another Hall she was equally illuminated.
Her four piece band are astonishing and she said so, half way through a UK tour to celebrate not only her 40 years in the industry but her 30 years of touring and her last album of Beatle covers called Nothing's Gonna Change My World.
You can tell Barbara likes to be in control and her version of Paul McCartney's I Will is so different it's the Dickson take on it.
The Fab's Things We Said Today is also revamped. She
nodded back to her affinity with the Moptops with a
wonderful In The Bleak Midwinter running into Here Comes The Sun from John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert, the Everyman musical that made her so well loved on
Merseyside and beyond.
She praised Willy Russell and sang another of his creations, the nerve-tingling Easy Terms from Blood Brothers. I Know Him So Well and Caravans illustrate that Barbara Dickson can adapt like a musical chameleon.
