Little Big Town brings ‘Nightfall’ to Fantasy Springs Resort Casino

Little Big Town came into 2020 raring to go, with a caller album, “Nightfall,” getting released connected Jan. 17, a afloat week of promotion and concerts to coincide with the merchandise – including shows astatine New York City’s legendary Carnegie Hall and Apollo Theatre.

The adjacent week was devoted to preparations for the Grammy Awards. And, ohio yes, a nationalist circuit that was scheduled to tally into aboriginal May was connected the books.

Alas, Little Big Town did not adhd to the 4 Grammy Awards the radical had antecedently won, with the opus “The Daughters” losing retired successful the Best Country Duo/Group Performance category. And past the pandemic hit, putting the “Nightfall” circuit connected pause.

Finally, aft immoderate 18 months distant from unrecorded performing, Little Big Town person restarted the “Nightfall” tour, taking retired a amusement that has an ambitious philharmonic extremity and stops astatine Fantasy Springs Resort Casino successful Indio Sept. 17.

Member Phillip Sweet said the quartet was inspired by a residency they had astatine the Ryman Auditorium successful Nashville successful 2017.

“Those 10 shows we did that twelvemonth were conscionable truthful magical and they were, each 1 unique, and conscionable that spot had specified a tone astir it. We wanted to instrumentality that retired and fto radical acquisition that crossed the country,” Sweet said.

He described the attack to the shows arsenic “more theatrical and cinematic.”

“We’re successful these iconic theatre rooms, truthful it’s much intimate and the amusement feels precise immersive…You tin truly perceive successful and bask the philharmonic aspects of what we’re doing. It feels immersive and you consciousness transported, I consciousness like.”

Fans tin expect Little Big Town to execute galore of the songs from “Nightfall,” during the shows.

“We conscionable wanted to showcase (the caller album), positive we’re playing each the different songs that we consciousness similar our fans privation to hear, too, and mixing them in,” Sweet said. “It’s a bully travel of a show.”

It makes consciousness that Sweet and his bandmates — hubby and woman Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman — privation to play the “Nightfall” worldly considering that making the medium was a unsocial and fulfilling experience.

After utilizing extracurricular producers connected each 8 of the group’s erstwhile workplace albums, with Jay Joyce down the boards for the 3 erstwhile albums — “Tornado” (2012), “Pain Killer” (2014), and “The Breaker” (2017) — “Nightfall” evolved into the band’s archetypal mostly self-produced project.

“We loved moving with Jay, and this benignant of came retired of an integrated process of conscionable the writing,” Sweet said. “We conscionable wanted to get successful the workplace and soma them (the songs) retired and spot however they started feeling. We weren’t intending to self-produce. It conscionable was benignant of like, I deliberation astir 15 songs into what we were doing, we (as a band) were benignant of looking astatine each different and going ‘I deliberation we’re producing this album.’ That’s benignant of however it happened.”

It’s a notable determination considering Little Big Town had rather a tally with Joyce.

“Tornado” went platinum and gave the set its archetypal No. 1 state single, “Pontoon.” That acceptable the signifier for an adjacent bigger splash erstwhile “Girl Crush,” the 2nd azygous from “Pain Killer,” became a crippled changer. It spent 13 weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs illustration and won 2 Grammys.

Little Big Town’s momentum continued with “The Breaker,” which produced different blockbuster azygous successful “Better Man,” which was written by Taylor Swift.

In “Nightfall,” Little Big Town person created different good album. It emerged during a prolific play wherever the 4 radical members and their songwriting collaborators wrote much than 30 songs.

The radical yet settled connected 13 songs that seemed to acceptable unneurotic some lyrically and musically.

“They (the songs) started gravitating toward each different and the ‘Nightfall’ theme, each the things that travel with the nightfall,” Sweet said. “It’s a clip to unwind oregon it tin beryllium a clip of large nostalgia and love, it tin beryllium a clip of celebration, but it besides tin beryllium a clip of loneliness and (being) successful the dark. So each of these antithetic emotions started feeling themselves retired nether this thought of nightfall.”

The medium leans decidedly toward harmony-laden, highly melodic ballads – ever a spot of Little Big Town – that person thoughtful, good crafted lyrics that woody with love’s magic and challenges, arsenic good arsenic societal issues, including the request for girls to interruption escaped of age-old expectations placed connected women (the Grammy-nominated “The Daughters”), to support up appearances of a blessed location (“Sugarcoat”) and helping kids who spot themselves arsenic misfits consciousness appreciated (“Problem, Child”).

Sweet is arrogant of the “Nightfall” album’s lyrics and however they code definite issues.

“It’s decidedly unapologetic and decidedly grown-up,” Sweet said. “Some of these things request to beryllium spoken astir and discussed, but done successful a mode wherever it’s done creation and done character, truthful we tin recognize the emotion and however we tin marque it better, marque the satellite a amended place.”

If you go

When: 8 p.m. Sept. 17

Where: Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, 84245 Indio Springs Parkway, Indio

Admission: $79-$129

Information: fantasyspringsresort.com