grizzled

A grizzled man singing into a microphone, his feet sandy and splayed.

In this warm and witty track from his album “Closer to the Bone,” he utilizes that grizzled perspective to redouble his support for Sinéad O’Connor, whom he famously defended after she was attacked for ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992.

A two-time Grammy nominee and a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Souther — whose survivors include two sisters and a former wife and her daughter — later moved to Nashville and returned to record-making in 2008 with the jazzy “If the World Was You,” which he quickly followed with several more albums and a recurring part as a grizzled country music fixer on ABC’s soapy “Nashville.”

A grizzled Gibson is always a compelling screen presence; the late, great Liotta is appropriately terrifying too.

A young face among all the grizzled visages, Brittney Spencer — who got a boost this year when Beyoncé featured her on “Cowboy Carter” — opened the concert with a sly and buoyant performance that climaxed with a mashup of Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” and her own “I Got Time.”