Sugarland In Your Hands Review

My favorite Sugarland album, probably because it's the least country so far:

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Sugarland's current tour, In Your Hands, is their best yet. I should know, this was my fourth Sugarland concert, and the third in less than a year.

In Your Hands litterally puts power in the fans' hands, allowing them to pick songs for the duo to play at each concert via text, online, and social media voting.

During the concert, fans also brought creative homemade signs up to the stage inscribed with their musical requests. Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush picked songs from various signs and played them.

Amazingly, fans were invited on stage to perform and dance with Sugarland multiple times throughout the concert.

Honestly, the people they brought on stage were so inspiring and cute I asked Hubby, "Did they hold auditions or what?"

This baby girl, Lindsey Tipton, actually performed Sugarland's song, "Baby Girl," onstage with the dynamic duo.

"Doesn't she have nice legs?" Jennifer Nettles.

If one word could describe the current Sugarland concert experience, it would be INTERACTIVE. Whoever thought of allowing fan participation during a concert is a genius. Perhaps, Sugarland is taking the lead from the World Wide Web?

Especially social media networks such as facebook and twitter, where rock stars and starlets broadcast the daily details of their lives to fans giving them a strong sense of connection like never before.

But Sugarland took it a step further by actually allowing fans to broadcast as well. Kudos!

Besides, the song requests and fan performances, Jennifer Nettles, who has moves like Jagger, generously gave out high fives and autographs from the stage. While Kristian Bush frequently threw guitar picks into the audience.

My second favorite Sugarland album:

The three other Sugarland concerts I've been to were awesome! But the previous shows were more staged and professional. The current tour feels spontaneous, heartfelt, homey and downright fun. I felt like I was in a small club rather than a large amphitheater with thousands of people.

I'm sure being in the fourth row helped. A lot. Also, the format allows plenty of commentary from Nettles which is hilarious and highly entertaining.

The big screen intensifies Nettles' emotionally dramatic performance of "Stay."

This fan's hair matches his outfit! Yippeee!

Opening act Canaan Smith croons to his fans, most likely teenage girls and twenty-somethings.

Opening act 17-Year-Old Alaina Lauren was soulful and fun!

It wouldn't be a Sugarland concert without a cover song. Sugarland covers George Michael's "Faith," starting at 1:55 in the video below.

Sugarland bids their audience a sweet and touching goodnight.

As the audience began filing out of the amphitheater, a concert usher turns to me and gives me the thumbs up.

"Wow, that was amazing," says the Usher. "You can tell they really care about their fans. They played a long time too. There aren't very many acts that do that these days."