Concert Review: Jenny Lewis at the Bluebird Theater, Denver, September 17, 2008

Jenny Lewis doesn’t believe in standing still. No way.

Just when one project is finished, this true-blue California Girl adds another to her checklist.

•Form an indie rock band (Rilo Kiley, as if anyone didn’t know) that’s a little bit country. Check.

•Take a break to record her first solo (sort of) record, by teaming up with the statuesque Watson Twins (Chandra and Leigh), then go on the road and share top billing with the North Mississippi Allstars. Check.

•Get back with aforementioned indie rock band (which isn’t so indie anymore) to make one of the best albums of 2007, Under the Blacklight. Check.

•Head out with that act on a successful worldwide tour, making men of all shapes and sizes swoon while teenage girls and mature women wonder what it’s like to be you. Check.

•Collaborate with a number of heavy hitters, including Elvis Costello and The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, and take only three weeks to record Solo Album No. 2, Acid Tongue. Check.

She’s not done yet, ladies and gentlemen. Even before Acid Tongue dropped on September 23, Lewis was making the rounds again. Her new tour (without either Rilo Kiley or the Watsons) began earlier this month and included a September 17 stop at the Bluebird Theater in Denver (left). She’ll headline a number of dates and join sometime collaborator Conor Oberst on others.

Denver witnessed a superlative show from the pixie princess of pop and her Rilo Kiley mates as recently as May at the Ogden Theatre, but so what? There are new tunes, new band members, and new outfits to show off.

At the Bluebird, Lewis was dressed to impress, wearing cute-as-a-button bib overalls with short-shorts, elf-like anklets and a multicolored short-sleeve top while her flowing brown hair was extra long in the back and the ever-present bangs in the front were constantly toying with her eyes. The sexy overbite was on display throughout, as Lewis constantly flashed that girlish grin.

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