Concert review Absence makes the heart want to go even harder. That’s the saying, right? Forgive me, my brain is still defrosting from the midnight chill that settled over the Gorge Amphitheatre — and into the bones of the thousands of fans who filled the place — by the time Brandi Carlile and her Echoes Through the Canyon cast wrapped up Friday’s kickoff show early Saturday morning. Somewhere in between when Carlile’s troupe and her hero-openers Indigo Girls morphed into one giant super band and when Sara Bareilles popped out for a surprise duet, Carlile joked that she was so cold she could no longer feel her fingers and she was simply trusting them to play her songs correctly. Fortunately, Carlile and her numbed extremities hit all the right notes when, after a two-year hiatus, the homegrown folk rocker’s soulful, women-centering concert series came back with a bang during the first of three shows this weekend.…