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reviewed the concert as by turns full of umbrage, mellow, uplifting, "visceral and scathing", and "exultant and emotional", the audience as a "baying mob" greedy for more. Other reviews agreed that the music of
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came back together with a backing band (and their respective daughters as special guests on the track "I Am Afraid") to perform the entirety of the album in the
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