9:30 Club Concerts

Little Big Town @ 9:30 Club

Posted on March 6, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC - February 14th 2013 - Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet of Little Big Town perform at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The band's 2012 album, "Tornado," contains the hit single "Pontoon," which recently won Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post)

Off the top of my head, the only times I’ve had to shoot from the back of the venue at the 9:30 Club were Adele and Frank Ocean. Unfortunately I had to add country act Little Big Town to that list last month. And that’s too bad, because they had a killer light show.

WASHINGTON, DC - February 14th 2013 - Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet of Little Big Town perform at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The band's 2012 album, "Tornado," contains the hit single "Pontoon," which recently won Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post)

WASHINGTON, DC - February 14th 2013 - Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet of Little Big Town perform at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The band's 2012 album, "Tornado," contains the hit single "Pontoon," which recently won Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post)

As it was I was relegated to the VIP area, on the second floor of the balcony, the same place I shot Adele, although I rented a 300mm lens for that show. It would have been nice to have a 300mm for this show  for some close ups, but I was stuck with my trusty 70-200mm. This allowed me to get shots of all four band members, but limited the variety of my shots.

WASHINGTON, DC - February 14th 2013 - Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet of Little Big Town perform at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The band's 2012 album, "Tornado," contains the hit single "Pontoon," which recently won Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post)

WASHINGTON, DC - February 14th 2013 - Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet of Little Big Town perform at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The band's 2012 album, "Tornado," contains the hit single "Pontoon," which recently won Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post)

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Little Big Town @ 9:30 Club – Images by Kyle Gustafson

Kyle Gustafson is a freelance photographer based in Washington, D.C. His work appears weekly in The Washington Post. Complex Magazine named him one of the 50 Greatest Concert Photographers Right Now.

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