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Mraz was Smoother than the Chardonnay
"Make it Mine" opening was great. Mraz was mesmerizing on Love for a Child and A Beautiful Mess. Toca Rivera creates a new language with his drums, really beautiful use of harmonies and the horn section. Charlie Wilson and Co. recovered quite nicely with a rollicking good encore. Covers of Seals and Crofts and Lionel Ritchie were a nice surprise. Mraz and his entire crew don't miss a beat. If you've heard the tracks, you'll be touched by his emotional live delivery of these haunting tunes. A few left before the encore, when the band CRANKED on an instrumental and the aforementioned Ritchie song as well as Butterfly. The crowd would have stayed for more, but I suspect Charlie Wilson and gang were ready to get some rest after a great show and the day before a SF gig. All mellow to start, and then full bore to finish. He added a few extra of those operatic howls for Coyotes and double timed The Dynamo of Volition so my uninitiated husband only caught a few lines. I let him know Charlie Wilson was indeed 'holding in the heat like a fish stick.' And yes, he played I'm Yours, giving the audience a chance to sing along."