Laura Barton's Notes on Music

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A triptych of audio essays on the enduring qualities, appeal and intent of pop music.

A triptych of audio essays on the enduring qualities, appeal and intent of pop music.  Today, the magic of a live gig.

Spring 2008, and pretty much the only album Laura Barton wants to listen to is Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago. She plays it constantly. 

That May, she goes to every show on Bon Iver's short UK tour. It's their second show, at The Social in London, that she remembers best - the audience pressed into a hot basement bar. The reverence, the silence, the singalong. The songs played down among the crowd. The sense of the night and the city alive. The thought that no gig could ever be better.

Laura revisits that night with Justin Vernon, Bon Iver's songwriter and frontman; Robin Turner, co-owner of The Social; and Paul Burnley, the Social's sound engineer, 

Music Played:
Bon Iver - Flume
Bon Iver - Lump Sum
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Mahalia Jackson - A Satisfied Mind
Justin Vernon - A Satisfied Mind
Indigo Girls - Willd Horses
Bon Iver - re: Stacks (live)
Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
Bon Iver - For Emma

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