The co-headlining Bandwagon Tour rolled into PNC Bank Arts Center Friday night
The night in Holmdel felt like a deluxe, privileged experience, as the well-liquored crowd was treated to not only two full sets — an hour from each act — but an incendiary 30-minute finale, which found everyone on stage at once, jumping in on each other’s biggest tunes. It was fantasy-level country karaoke, boosted by a mammoth band — 14 musicians on stage, as the acts’ backing groups combined to form a booming Brady Bunch.
There’s a reason this enduring Alabama group, born from Fairchild and Schlapman’s college friendship, has stuck around for nearly 25 years: They deliver time and again. On Friday, they traded off lead vocals, toggling between tender tunes like “When Someone Stops Loving You” and boozy cuts like “Day Drinking” — “it ain’t the Osmonds up here,” Fairchild quipped — and of course saved their biggest hit, 2014′s pseudo-provocative “Girl Crush” to close out their perfectly serviceable set.
“I’m an honorary New York/New Jersey resident — I married a New York boy, what can I say?” she joked, referencing herfrom Staten Island. After her very public divorce from country mega-star Blake Shelton in 2015, who could’ve guessed?
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