MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE: LIVE
BOSTON HERALD REVIEW 8 JULY 1999

Whitney wows Wang: Rest does Houston good as she delivers the hits
by Sarah Rodman
Thursday, July 8, 1999


Whitney Houston, at the Wang Theatre, Boston, last night; also tonight.

Whitney Houston cancelled her last two shows to rest her voice.  It would appear that New Jersey and Washington, D.C.'s, loss was very much Boston's gain as the 35-year-old diva didn't hit a single bum note during last night's jubilant performance at a nearly sold out Wang Theatre.  Not that the occasional flat or sharp would've marred the first of her two-night stand here in husband Bobby Brown's hometown. (Brown was spotted in the wings beaming). For her first tour in five years Houston was simply in perfect form: easy, gracious, regal and sassy during an 1-hour-40-minute  set that leaned heavily on her jittery, hip-hop inflected new album ``My Love Is Your Love.''Gliding elegantly down the silver staircase that housed her six-piece band and four backing singers, including brother Gary, Houston, in her Dolce & Gabbana suit, proved to be the diva unafraid of diversity as she moved through her multiplatinum catalog of pop songs and soundtrack hits.
She took it to the street corner and hopped in formation with her four dancers on restless opener "Get it Back" and the slinky "Heartbreak Hotel." 

She crooned her early lite FM soul pop ballad "Saving All My Love For You." She took the crowd dancing with an exuberant ``I'm Every Woman,'' then to the after-hours club with the sultry ``Oh Yes'' and on to church in a rousing mini-gospel set that included a moving ``I Love the Lord'' and ``I Go to the Rock.'' What makes Houston different and endearing is that she's unafraid to get ugly or sweat as she throws her whole body into the work of praising the Lord with her strongest vocal flights.

Six-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina emerged to endear herself to the audience by contributing tentative vocals to mom's reggaefied new single ``My Love is Your Love.''

Frothy early hits like ``How Will I Know'' suffered by comparison to Houston's more substantive sounds. Deadline obligations meant missing the encores, but as we left Houston was rattling the rafters with a lung busting take on ``I Will Always Love You''
that left the crowd feeling the same.

 

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