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Title: Too Late for Edelweiss Condition: New Format: CD EAN: 8714092796728 Edition: Album Digipak Genre: Folk Style: Folk-Rock Release Date: 18/08/2023 Description: The Tallest Man On Earth - the project of Swedish musician Kristian Matsson - presents 'Too Late For Edelweiss', an album of new covers released via ANTI. With Too Late For Edelweiss, Matsson weaves together a sparse collection of home recordings made in Sweden and North Carolina, captured fresh off a 39-date run with the adrenaline of tour rattling through his veins. The songs on Too Late For Edelweiss have been with Matsson since he started playing music as The Tallest Man on Earth in 2006. In those early years, Matsson used to perform "Lost Highway" by Hank Williams before he had enough songs to flesh out a full set.
In July 2022, Matsson released a cover of Swedish super star Hakan Hellstrom's "For sent for Edelweiss," a precious song that has been The Tallest Man's walk-on music before every performance for over a decade and what inspired the title of this covers album. Since then, in the lead-up to this announcement, he has quietly released other selections, including Lucinda Williams' "Metal Firecracker," Yo La Tengo's "Tears Are In Your Eyes" and now "Lost Highway." Mattson explains, "When I was a teenager I borrowed a Hank Williams album at the local library, and 'Lost Highway' has been haunting me ever since. Many vocal sound checks throughout my career have heard Hank's advice."
As much as Too Late For Edelweiss feels like a scrapbook, an intimate memento with the ghosts of The Tallest Man's earlier, sparser sound hovering at the edges, it's also just the artifact of a moment - a flash of joy, of feeling recharged, of feeling good. These are the songs that happened to be in Matsson's head at the time he sat down to record. It came together so simply and easily - and in that way, it's the purest distillation of making music - and being a fan of it, charting the connective tissue of a songwriter's life. Country/Region of Manufacture: Netherlands No Of Discs: 1 Artist: The Tallest Man On Earth Record Label: ANTI MPN: 279672 Release Year: 2023 Tracks: 1: För Sent För Edelwiss 2: Metal Firecracker 3: Little Birdie 4: Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye 5: Blood Bank 6: Tears Are in Your Eyes 7: Fairest of the Seasons 8: Pink Rabbits 9: Lost Highway 10: In My Life Missing Information?
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