The title of
Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess: Live on Earth is unnecessarily complicated, but this CD/DVD set -- the concert runs two songs longer on the DVD -- is pretty simple, capturing a show
Mraz gave at the Charter One Pavilion in Chicago in August 2009.
Colbie Caillat shows up to duet on "Lucky," but that's really the only surprise here:
Mraz is in total crowd-pleaser mode, running through hits and favorites, bending arrangements and improvising a little bit, but not enough to alter the feel or familiarity of the songs, creating a show that's a good time for fans, which is all that this needed to be, anyway. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine