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"Wow Tift Merritt's voice is even more spectacular & nuanced in RL than on my iPod. Best river to river performance yet"While Jay Reatard was playing a free NYC show in Stuyvesant TOWN yesterday (7/1), Sarah Lee Guthrie, John Irion, and alt-country star Tift Merritt were playing a free NYC show (courtesy of the River to River Festival) in Stuyvesant HIGH SCHOOL (which is where the originally-outdoor show was moved to due to the threat of rain). More pictures below...
- Tara Lannen-Stanton
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Tift MEHrritt
Posted by Anonymous | July 2, 2009 11:57 AM
"Wow Tift Merritt's voice is even more spectacular & nuanced in RL than on my iPod. Best river to river performance yet"
- Tara Lannen-Stanton
Real life abbreviated to "RL"? Is Tara Lannen-Stanton 13 years old? Seriously, come the F on already!
Posted by Anonymous | July 2, 2009 12:03 PM
it's twitter. remember the maximum word limit?
Posted by Anonymous | July 2, 2009 12:11 PM
Tift sang "Keep You Happy" off mic, and off PA. She filled the auditorium with only her voice and acoustic guitar. You just had to be there.
Posted by Anonymous | July 2, 2009 6:43 PM
Stuyvesant MEH School
Posted by Anonymous | July 2, 2009 9:06 PM
setlist:
Don't Want To Fight Anymore - new song, acoustic
Till There Was You - new song, acoustic
Stray Paper - acoustic
Broken - acoustic
I Know What I'm Looking For Now - piano
Another Country - piano
Keep You Happy - acoustic
Supposed To Make You Happy - acoustic, unamplified
The Summer Kurt Cobain Died - new song, electric
Good Hearted Man - piano
Tender Branch - piano
Something To Me - acoustic
encore:
Virginia, No One Can Warn You - acoustic
Still Pretending - piano
See You On The Moon - new song, acoustic
Posted by Anonymous | July 3, 2009 12:25 AM