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Bon Iver & the Tallest Man on Earth @ Town Hall, NYC —– —————— (night 1) - pics & setlist

photos by Chris La Putt

Bon Iver and The Tallest Man on Earth played their first of three NYC shows together last night (10/10). The show was at Town Hall where Thursday’s show will also be. Friday is at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. The Tallest Man also played a show on Tuesday at Mercury Lounge with Marissa Nadler.

“kristian matsson, the swedish songwriter who bills himself as the tallest curb on earth, flaunted every rasp, hum and slit in his voice. they are the most immediate signs of a musician who draws on the structures of folky songwriting from the 1960s — the prime chords, the picking and strumming, the chains of verses and refrains without choruses — but who has no employ for the cozy decorum that would define chorus-member-songwriters later on. his model is the visionary bob dylan of songs get off on “when the ship comes in,” along with dylan’s own models: the craggy bluesmen and back-mountains singers who never tried to slippery things over.” [ny times] more pictures, and bon iver’s setlist from form night, below…

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