Amy Grant Concert Review

I went to go see Amy Grant in Meridian, MS tonight. Here is my review about the concert:

Amy Grant’s concert was awesome tonight! It was in a very small, quaint theater in Meridian, MS. It was so small that every seat in the house was a good seat. Amy started the show with “My Father’s Eyes” with just her on the guitar. Then she brought in the band and did “Takes a Little Time.” Amy said this was the first time she had been with her band in six months. The best part about the night is that she played a whole bunch of new songs. She said some of them were being played the first time for a ticketed concert (I got to hear her new songs before most other people! How awesome is that?!) Here is a list of the new songs she played:

1. “Goodbye Two Boys, Hello One Man” - After attending a funeral for one of her son’s young friends, Amy was inspired to write this song.

2. “If I Could Hear What the Angels Hear” - Amy wrote this on her back porch.

3. “True Love” - A beautiful song about her relationship with Vince.

4. “Threaten Me With Heaven” - A song about her children’s grandfather, Terry Chapman, who has been very sick lately. After going through one of several blood tests with many negative results, Amy asked him how he was doing. He said “I’ll be fine. What are they going to do? Threaten me with Heaven?”

5. “Be Still” - Amy told us as a child she was very bored which is what got her into songwriting.  However, nowadays she notices that her children and others are so busy with activities, internet, cell phones that we hardly take the time to notice God.  This song is about being still before God amongst the panic of life.

The other really cool part about the concert was that Amy took requests from the audience about what songs to play. About half of the songs she did were requests from the audience. The first lady yelled out “Mimi’s House” so Amy played that with only a few errors as she tried to remember all the chords.   She also sang “Old Man’s Rubble” by request which was pretty cool.  Somebody yelled out “Love of Another Kind” but Amy told them she couldn’t since it’s been too long since she’s played that. Unfortunately, a lot of people yelled out her common songs that I have already seen her sing live on her DVD’s like “Lucky One” and “Baby Baby.” I yelled out “Find a Way” but she either didn’t hear me or didn’t want to play that song. lol What does she have against her Unguarded album??

Oh, another cool surprise was that she sang “The Power.” She said that Cher recorded this song after Amy had already recorded it so she fantasizes that maybe Cher has listened to one of her albums. Amy said she used to stalk Cher when she was 15 and would put all her magazine clippings in a scrapbook. haha

Amy closed with “El Shaddai” and “I Will Remember You.
” It was an amazing night!