The Tallest Man On Earth Announces New Album Just Beyond Endless Mountain: Hear “Deliver Me From Trying”

For 20 solid years, the Swedish folk musician Kristian Matsson has been releasing records while calling himself the Tallest Man On Earth. I should be used to it by now. I am not. That stage name is supposed to be ironic. Matsson is not tall at all. He is certainly not the tallest man on Earth. (I'm not the tallest man on Earth, either. Google tells me that that distinction currently belongs to the 8'3" Turkish gentleman Sultan Kösen. I am merely the tallest man in rock criticism.) Anyway! The false Tallest Man On Earth has a new album on the way, and he'd like you to know about it.Kristian Matsson recorded his upcoming LP Just Beyond Endless Mountain after returning to Dalarna, the place in the central Swedish countryside where he grew up. Whereas Matsson's music has long been influenced by American folk and blues, he made Just Beyond Endless Mountain after rediscovering the fiddle and the traditional music of Sweden itself. In a press release, he says:Somewhere along the way, I'd developed this immature aversion to the whole cultural inheritance I grew up with. But now, I live here again. I've read an incredible amount — not just about the music, but about how people actually live...