Tall Heights

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BUY TICKETS EVENT FAQs | STAY WITH US Join us for the return of one of The Word Barn’s favorite indie-folk duos for an incredibly special performance celebrating their 10 year release of Neptune. AND, in celebration of the start of The Word Barn with an inaugural concert with Tall Heights 10 years ago, almost to the day. ABOUT TALL HEIGHTS WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | SPOTIFY Tall Heights wants to share a moment with you. A moment in New England, a moment on Earth. With their 2024 release, Softly Softly, Paul Wright (cello/vocals) and Tim Harrington (guitar/vocals) reject isolation; both the universal experience of the early 2020s, and its sound recording definition where different instruments are recorded separately. Harrington explains, "The opposite of isolation in recording is bleed, where you hear the drums and guitar through the vocal mic because everything is happening in the same room. It's risky because you can't easily change it later. You're stuck with whatever you get. Bleeding is just the perfect word for it. It's scary and it sometimes hurts." After the pandemic, Ben Folds invited the Boston-based duo to Nashville to make his latest album, "What Matters Most" (New West 2023). Following this month-long apprenticeship under Folds, Tall Heights became focused on records that testify to a specific place and time. They started drawing inspiration from classic Simon and Garfunkel albums like Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Water. Their focus narrowed to "something pretty simple actually," Wright explains, "to capture a real moment with real people in an actual room." For 10 days in rural Massachusetts, the childhood friends captured brand new songs in an old fashioned way. “It was us two plus a cousin, some old friends, a guy we found on TikTok, a flutist we once saw on stage with Kishi Bashi–the latter two we had never actually met in person– Paul’s wife, a studio engineer, and an intern” Harrington fondly remembers. The songs document fall…