The band opened with bass-heavy “Crawl” from OBTN, followed by toe-tapper “Taper Jean Girl” from their sophomore release “Aha Shake Heartbreak” (2004), and “My Party” from “Because of the Times” (2007). The loudest applause of the night was reserved for their recent material. Sunday’s crowd, a mix of college-aged fans, adolescents with adult chaperones and groups of older, presumably newer fans spoke to the band’s slow rise from near obscurity to the top of the charts. The Kings of Leon, consisting of brothers Anthony “Caleb,” Ivan “Nathan,” Michael “Jared” and cousin Cameron “Matthew” Followill (the four use their middle names as stage names), took the stage Sunday behind a cloud of red smoke and on the heels of their most commercially successful release, 2008’s “Only by the Night.” The album contains Grammy-winning singles “Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody,” a track poised to join the ranks of “Don’t Stop Believin’Y” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” as a timeless bar room sing-along. The show marked their second night on a four-gig East Coast salvo that ends this weekend at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn.
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Patrons of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center were treated to a heavy dose of southern hospitality Sunday as Tennessee and Oklahoma natives Kings of Leon growled and grinded through a 90-minute set spanning their four-album, 11-year career.
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