On a Sunday night, Dana Fuchs and her five bandmates took the stage at The Iridium club in New York City for the final show of a three-night stand. Her two-hour set was lathered, not only with her trademark powerful vocals, but also with emotionally-charged music and intimate moments, all shared with an eager-for-more audience.

Although she and longtime music partner and guitarist Jon Diamond had played a couple of duo shows there, Ms. Fuchs told me  “This is the first full band stint since I’ve had this band—a couple of years,  now. It’s been  fun to be back here…throwing in the new album, the old stuff…it’s been a real hodgepodge. The last couple of nights, we were so winging it. We even busted out ‘Sympathy For The Devil’; I’ve never covered that before.”

Just before opening the set with “Almost Home,”  Fuchs gave a nod to Game of Thrones , which was having its season premiere that night; she looked at the crowded room and said “Thank you for choosing to be here rather than watching GOT…I will give you all my heart and soul tonight if you give me some back.”

Some of the many musical highlights of the evening included  “Almost Home,”  a heart-wrenching version of “Callin’ Angels,” which she wrote and dedicated to her lost family members, “Sad Solution,” “Backstreet Baby,” with uplifting vocal duets with bandmate Andrea Urban, all from her latest album, Love Lives On.   

Fuchs closed  the electrifying musical night by introducing keyboardist Matt Wade, bassist Brian Gearty and drummer Santo Rizzolo, all Asbury Park, NJ natives, and then launched into  “Battle Lines” and her own searing version of the June Carter/Merle Kilgore-penned Johnny Cash classic, “Ring of Fire.”

—Howard B. Leibowitz