Union Chapel, LondonWhile US R&B, pop and hip-hop are in a fecund period of reinvention thanks to Beyoncé, Kanye et al, AOR country music appears to be the first genre to reach its ultimate conclusion. Hence, to a bafflingly rapturous reception, three models on stools tonight peddle 90 minutes of soporific radio balladry of a hue set in aspic by Wilson Phillips, Bryan Adams and Sheryl Crow in the 80s and 90s and virtually unmolested ever since. That Nashville's least dusty group, Lady Antebellu...
Guardian Music — Union Chapel, LondonWhile US R&B, pop and hip-hop are in a fecund period of reinvention thanks to Beyoncé, Kanye et al, AOR country music appears to be the first genre t... more info