Overview
- The Thursday concert marked a Boston stop on Carlile’s first full-fledged arena headlining tour before a sold-out crowd.
- Roughly one-third of the two-hour set drew from Returning To Myself, which opened the night with its title track.
- Signature songs The Story and The Joke anchored the show, and the encore began with Church & State accompanied by protest imagery.
- Carlile added notable covers with Linda Ronstadt’s Long Long Time and Alanis Morissette’s Uninvited.
- A mid-set request segment delivered Downpour and Wherever Is Your Heart, with the expanded band featuring the Hanseroth twins, SistaStrings, and new drummer Terence Clark; The Head and the Heart opened, and Gov. Maura Healey declared “Brandi Carlile Day.”