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Pop & Hiss


REVIEW: RUFUS WAINWRIGHT AT THE ORPHEUM

By August BrownStaff Writer 
May 14, 2012 10:22 AM PT
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Rufus Wainwright is a virtuoso ironist, and he came right out of the gate with
it at the Orpheum on Saturday. For the a cappella opener “Candles,” he sang, “I
tried to do all that I can, but the churches have run out of candles,” while
surrounded by dozens of lighted votives. It was a good joke in the midst of
quite a scene -- the Orpheum stage wreathed in flickering darkness and hymnal
harmonies.

Of course, when the lights kicked on, Wainwright was wearing gold pants and
cheap sunglasses befitting a Serbian drug runner. Try as he might, be can’t be
austere for too long without winking. But all the better for us -- Saturday’s
set caught one of the finest and most idiosyncratic singer-songwriters working
today at his most flirty and commanding.

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Wainwright’s new Mark Ronson-produced album, “Out of the Game,” was welcomed as
a warm and spritzy return to form after a long stretch of operatic and quite
serious records. That album was the backstop for Saturday’s show, and even those
raised on the bleary downtown suites of “Poses” had to give into it. “Out of the
Game” is an album of devotion that never tries too hard to win you over, and the
bit of Vegas torchiness that he brought to the velvety “Song of You,”
“Respectable Dive” and lite-funk “Barbara” made the solid bones of his
songwriting feel even more masterful.

The title track, a dating-scene vet’s grateful look in the rear view mirror at
that life, had an Eagles-y, canyon country wistfulness that made the sentiment
totally believable. That’s even more true when one considers it next to
“Montauk,” a guileless welcome-to-the-word ode to his young daughter, in which
he promises, “One day you’ll come to Montauk and see your dad wearing a kimono /
and your other dad pruning roses.” Who knew that Rufus Wainwright of all people
would make a great dad-rocker?

The set came just days after President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage,
which lent an even more celebratory feel to Wainwright’s songs about kicking his
shoes off and committing. But Wainwright’s music has always been in dialogue
with his famous family’s catalog, and several covers of his mom’s and dad’s work
connected generations.





The night featured three songs by his mother, the late Kate McGarrigle. Two were
delivered by members of Rufus Wainwright’s backing band, including Teddy
Thompson’s plainspoken read on “Saratoga Summer Song” and Krystle Warren’s more
explosive “I Don’t Know.” Wainwright choked back reservations about performing
“On My Way to Town,” claiming that he plays it way better in his house over
breakfast but never feels right doing it live. He shouldn’t have worried -- the
simplicity of the piano arrangement belied the timelessness of the song, one he
clearly felt in his marrow from childhood. And his version of his father
Loudon’s “One Man Guy” let the low register of his voice resonate with the
romance of self-imposed loneliness.

But those heartfelt odes were leavening moments in an otherwise regal pop show.
The droll disco vamp of “Bitter Tears” and the Springsteen-swinging sax riffs of
“14th Street” proved he could do pretty much anything, and even his
cake-frosting singles have a lifetime of songwriting skill underneath. When he
ribbed guitarist Thompson for not wearing his required sunglasses for the big
set closer, it didn’t seem to matter if the church had run out of candles.
Wainwright had brought his own fireworks.

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-- August Brown

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