INDIGO GIRLS
SUNDAY 10/13. University of Central Arkansas, Reynolds Performance Hall, Conway. 7 p.m. $27-$40.
Emily Saliers and Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls don’t license their music for television commercials. I, for one, am grateful. How uncomplicated it would have been for “Galileo” to have become the hallmark of some luxury car brand, its rhythm guitar riffs inextricably tied in collective memory to the image of some high-performance off-roader ascending a craggy Colorado mountainside? Or for “Watershed” to be playing softly in the background as an impeccably lit thirtysomething reaches into her fridge for a single gut-nurturing serving of probiotic yogurt?
Instead, Indigo Girls fans got to watch Saliers’ “Closer to Fine” become licensed as the hallmark of subversion and enlightenment in Greta Gerwig’s blockbusting “Barbie,” reaching audiences well beyond the Indigo Girls’ post-Lilith demographic and affirming everything the song had made us feel for decades. Yearning. Questioning. Seeking. A sudden need to find out more about this Rasputin guy. (The anthem also happens to be fabulously suited for belting at the top of your lungs a la Robbie and Gosling, which is a near-certainty for the audience at this theater concert on the campus of University of Central Arkansas.) Get tickets, if there are any left by the time you’re reading this, here.
Stephanie Smittle is editorial director at the Arkansas Times and will arm wrestle anyone who says Arkansas is monotonous.
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