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LIVE: A Night With Kevin Morby at Lincoln Hall

"We've been coming here a long time, but we've never seen this many people," Kevin Morby said this past Friday night, addressing the sold out crowd at Lincoln Hall. Decked out in a customized suit featuring embroidered music notes and bedazzled initials of "K" and "M" studded onto his jacket collar, Morby had hit the stage that night in a blaze of style and talent. The roughly 75 minute set kicked off with the title track of Morby's latest album City Music, the entire live band immediately displaying their chemistry and feeding off one another's energy as they played through a handful of tracks from the new album, like "Cry Baby" and "1234," the latter acting as an uptempo bridge to the slow building tune "Aboard My Train." 

After those handful of newer songs, Morby and his band performed songs like "Harlem River" and "Destroyer" from past albums to an attentive audience. "Parade" from 2014's album Still Life proved to be a crowd favorite, with the audience echoing the words back to the stage. For the rest of the night, as Morby and his band worked through more songs both old and new, the crowd's eyes were glued to the stage as they soaked up every bit of Morby's magical performance. As the set closed out with "Dorthy," loud applause rang through the Lincoln Park venue, thanking Kevin Morby and his band for a stellar show. 

Check out photos from the mesmerizing performance below! Additional photos by Catalina Florea.

See the rest of Kevin Morby's upcoming tour dates here, and listen to City Music in full below!