The Head and the Heart wowed Tulsans

By Megan Porter on October 2, 2012

Sometimes there is nothing better than being in a sea of people waiting to see the same band you are because they love the same music you do.

Sunday September 30, The Head and the Heart graced Tulsa with their presence at Cain’s Ballroom. The show was simply magical. The Seattle natives opened with the first three songs off their self-titled debut album. Their faces showed nothing but excitement and pure love for the stage, a reaction not always visible with performers. The entire crowd knew every word and joyously sang along; which always put a smile across Charity Thielen’s face. The only girl in the band that has a magic touch to the violin and voice that will melt your eardrums to liquid faster than Jesus can turn water in to wine. The other lead vocalists  (also guitarists), Josiah Johnson and Jonathon Russell, were incredible in every way and could unbelievably sound as amazing as they do on the studio recordings, a talent that seems to be rare in today’s music mania. And no, the other band members have not been forgotten, Chris Zasche (bass), Kenny Hensley (piano), and Tyler Williams (drums) were the amazing addition to make the magic on stage complete.

The indie folk-pop music creates a persona that anything can beautiful, even when a song is about losing a relationship. Before the encore they chose to sing “Rivers and Roads” a song about growing a part from those you love, especially friends. Every single person in that room was screaming this song at the top of their longs, probably because it is so easy to relate to. Strange contradictory feelings of solace and sadness washed over me listening to the words, “A year from now we’ll all be gone/All our friends will move away/And they’re goin’ to better places/But our friends will be gone away,” reminiscing about the people that have been and out of my life within the last few years. Listening to the crowd scream the words along with me was almost as if they were in pure nostalgia as well. During the encore Jonathan Russell humorously came out wearing a red and green poncho, saying he had bought it earlier that day at Tulsa’s new Guthrie Green venue. The band decided that they had not been amazing enough and learned Jimmie Rodger’s song T is for Texas for the show, changing Texas to Tulsa. They ended the show with their amazing song “Down in the Valley” and every time the word Oklahoma was sung everyone in the crowd screamed it loud and proud, putting a smile across Charity’s face yet again. Their combination of vocal styles and instruments is an original wonder that makes them one of the best new bands around and hopefully they will return to Tulsa over and over again.

 

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