To advance his sixth flat album, Jack Johnson is demography a breach from alfresco amphitheaters to play theaters, with admirers scoring tickets by a lottery. But endure night, he played an even abate acoustic appearance for a army of 150 at New York's Allen Room at Lincoln Center overlooking Central Park. "I'll accessible my eyes soon," Johnson told the admirers with a beam aboriginal on, "but you accept a lot of appealing things to attending at anyway."
The all-acoustic set had a back-to-basics feel afterwards Johnson played Bonnaroo's Saturday night headlining aperture endure anniversary if Mumford & Sons canceled due to bloom reasons. It may accept been small, but Johnson was still nervous. On Sunday, as he helped body a garden and barbecue tables at New York's Rockaway Beach to advice with Sandy Relief, he told Rolling Stone he acquainted added burden at the affectionate shows appearance than the Tennessee mega-festival.
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But Johnson alone up. He discussed the authoritative of his accessible LP, From Here to Now to You, his aboriginal anthology back 2010's To the Sea, absolute that the absolute anthology is recorded in accessible B-flat tuning. His individual "I Got You," a additional ode to his wife Kim, debuted beforehand this month, and endure night's reside adaptation acquainted arrestingly similar, testifying to the actuality of Johnson's vocals.
Johnson's new advance are belief like those his admirers apprehend from him – campfire-ready adulation songs. But he still went deep. "Ones and Zeroes" is a addictive admonishing to approaching generations, discussing the ecology issues and addictions to technology, and the Beck-like "Shot Reverse Shot" is about "seeing things from the added side." Afterwards abrogation the stage, he alternate for a two-part acclamation that included "Banana Pancakes" and Zach Gill's "Girl I Wanna Lay You Down."
The encores accustomed Johnson and Gill a adventitious to fail around. Gill angry to the venue's floor-to-ceiling windows and began an accordion abandoned that served as the addition to his arbitrary amount ("'Cause you're bland and buttery like peanut butter/Aw, babe I wanna lay you down," they sang), and Johnson took the befalling to jerk about the show's 9:30 end time. His admirers thanked him with three continuing ovations.
With an all-embracing bout on the horizon, Johnson seemed blessed to accept a moment for the Big Apple. If he played "Home," he explained, "I've accomplished home is anywhere your ancestors is. Tonight, this is our home."
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