The first evening was a look back at his second solo record, Letters...
One of the key's to Walker's success is the intimacy and personal touch he elicits in concert. You feel his art, you sense his wonder and you dive deep into his psyche. This past winter, Walker did something truly unique for his followers; he performed albums in their entirety in small and intimate shows. Walker is an artist always moving forward never wanting to live in his past, so these shows (performed in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago) provided the fans with a rare glimpse into the past and after witnessing all four Chicago shows let me tell you what a journey it was. Arriving on stage in a hat, flannel shirt and jeans, Butch Walker began his four night stand at Schubas night club in Chicago by teasing with the crowd how the opening track on his 2004 album Letters was nothing more than a bunch of overlapping high pitched vocals…before he nearly replicated "Sunny Day Real Estate", a twenty-six second intro to his illuminating Letters record. This is something the core fans salivate for and Walker is doing it with great imminence but even better, he's conveying the songs with intense believability.
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