Stevie Nicks is a woman who seems to have stopped taking musical risks when she went solo almost 20 years ago, and her concerts have become as much about slick production and building on the Stevie hagiography as they are about music. Nevertheless, the crowd at Camden's Waterfront Entertainment Center, where she performed Friday night, adored her.
Acts of slavish devotion from the mostly female fans included clawing past overwhelmed security guards to offer her flowers, tambourines bedecked with ribbons, and other trinkets. An unsmiling Nicks tossed the offerings behind her, seeming a tad annoyed by the now-familiar drill. Fans were overjoyed to have touched her, anyway; one woman tried to rush the star on stage.