America at Pechanga

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Songs you have known your whole life arrive differently when the people who actually wrote them are playing in a room small enough to see their faces. That is the entire case for this night. The catalog is one of the most quietly pervasive in American music — 'A Horse with No Name,' 'Ventura Highway,' 'Sister Golden Hair' — songs nobody chose to memorize and everybody knows every word of anyway, made by a band that has been at it since 1970. Decades of touring have sanded the live show down to the version that knows exactly what it is. Pechanga treats classic rock properly: real production, calibrated sound, and a room carrying fifty years of affection for this material. Temecula in October, wine country hills on the drive in. Take the person who taught you these songs without ever meaning to.