L-R Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild, and Philip Sweet performed at The Wiltern in Los Angeles Thursday night. (Vanessa Gomez/Neon Tommy)

Well, Thursday night at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, the members of Little Big Town (Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, and Philip Sweet) proved that theory wrong.

"Scattered, Smothered, and Covered" is what they called it. This past year, the band has been covering different songs from the rock and pop genres and posting them to YouTube.

Their fans challenged them to cover different genres and each time, Little Big Town surprised them when they posted "I Want You Back" by Jackson 5 or Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." 

As Fairchild put it, "A lil' banjo never hurt anybody, ya'll." They played more than a little but it was the perfect amount to make it Little Big Town's spin on today's pop music.

Schlapman started Bruno Mars' song, "Grenade," which led into "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5 and Lady Gaga's number one hit "Born This Way."

The crowd's favorite was "Some Nights" by fun. This was just one of the many surprises the band had in store for Los Angeles. 

In the rear of the stage, they had stairs leading up to another platform about four feet off the original stage. The band members went back and forth from the platform to center stage.

It was a simple set up with two chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, but simple was better in this case because the lights made the whole show. Strobe lights went off every which way, spotlights shined on each member when they sang an intimate solo, and after every song, it went black.

They rehearsed everything to the final second because when the kick drum banged even louder, the lights got brighter or when Schlapman sang a cappella, there was just one spotlight on her until the acoustic guitar came in and the lights slowly got brighter. 

They switched up their music set list with songs from older albums, "The Reason Why" and "The Road To Here," but focused on their latest album and the name of their tour, "Tornado."

Nothing sounded sweeter than hearing their harmonies a cappella live because compared to their recorded tracks, their voices sounded so raw and pure, live. There wasn't any sound like the blend of their voices together. The radio doesn't do them justice.

When the instruments came in for support though, it wasn't just the typical acoustic and electric guitar and percussion section. Sweet and Westbrook played guitar, but Schlapman played keys while Fairchild banged the tambourine. Their band members came out with an upright bass, a banjo, and electric guitar, having solos on each. 

Because the lights went off after every song, LBT tricked every audience member into thinking the show was over after they finished "Pontoon," probably their most known song off "Tornado." The song was supposed to be more fun than anything because Fairchild came out with a black top hat on and Schlapman came out with pink round '70s style glasses on.

They had the audience join in to sing the famous line of the song, "Who Who Who," while all of the band members smiled and danced while singing on stage. The lights went out and the crowd kept cheering. That is, until, the storm came. 

The actual sound of rain and thunder started coming through the speakers. A spotlight came on all of the members in the band and Fairchild came out in a black leather jacket with long black tassles hanging down her arms all the way to her knees.

She stood in front of a fan, which helped the audience visualize wind and then the eye of the storm hit. Everything and everyone on stage turned into a tornado. The spotlights turned into strobe lights, the fog machines were turned on high and the instruments were blaring the chords of their latest single, "Tornado."

But that still wasn't the end. The lights turned back up and on the front of their raised platform on stage were light bulbs that lit up to spell Little Big Town. Then the acoustic guitar started to play and the four members started harmonizing "And it seems to me that it sounds familiar" on repeat.

They sang that line together just with the acoustic guitar about ten times. They let it simmer and the crowd cheered to hear more. The whole band came in as they started to sing their first hit single as a band, "Boondocks." The light bulbs lit up again to spell out the lyrics to the chorus as the band sang. 

It was a two and a half hour show, but the time flew by. There was one moment in the middle when it was getting to be too many slower songs back to back, but then they surprised the audience with their "Scattered, Smothered, and Covered" segment and from then on, there was no stopping them.

They shook their fans' hands in the front row, threw out guitar picks, and had them join in clapping to help the rhythm section. In the beginning of their show, Schlapman thanked the crowd for "being on the very beginning of our tornado." And what a ride it was. 

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