The Decemberists, Down By The Water (live), Mountain Winery, August 8, 2022 (4K)

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The Decemberists play their song "Down By The Water" live in concert at The Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on August 8, 2022. Down By The Water was the lead single from the band's sixth studio album, The King is Dead (2011). It featured R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and singer-songwriter Gillian Welch and was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards (Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song). The Decemberists are an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon consisting of Colin Meloy (lead vocals & guitar), Jenny Conlee (keyboards & accordion), Chris Funk (guitar), Nate Query (bass), and John Moen (drums). Joining them on tour is Lizzie Ellison (backing vocals).

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Down By The Water lyrics:

See this ancient riverbed
See where all the follies led
Down by the water and
Down by the old main drag

I was just some tow-head teen
Feeling round for fingers to get in between
Down by the water and
Down by the old main drag

The season rubs me wrong
The summer swells anon
So knock me down, tear me up
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Down by the water and
Down by the old main drag
Sweet descend this rabble round
The pretty little patter of a seaport town
Rolling in the water and
Rolling down the old main drag

All dolled up in gabardine
The lash-flashing Leda Of Pier Nineteen
Queen of the water and
Queen of the old main drag

The season rubs me wrong
The summer swells anon
So knock me down, tear me up
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Down by the water and
Down by the old main drag

Written by Colin Meloy

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The Decemberists - Arise From The Bunkers live tour dates (2022):

Aug. 3 – Bonner, MT @ Kettlehouse Amphitheater
Aug. 4 – Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park
Aug. 6 – Troutdale, OR @ McMenamins Edgefield
Aug. 8 – Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery
Aug. 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Aug. 11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Gallivan Center
Aug. 12 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
Aug. 13 – Kansas City, MO @ Grinders KC
Aug. 15 – Minneapolis, MN @ Surly Brewing
Aug. 16 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
Aug. 17 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Aug. 19 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
Aug. 20 – Lafayette, NY @ Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards
Aug. 21 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
Aug. 23 – New York, NY @ SummerStage
Aug. 24 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
Aug. 25 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
Aug. 27 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
Aug. 28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle

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The Decemberists official bio:

For 20 years The Decemberists have been one of the most original, daring, and thrilling American rock bands. Founded in the year 2000 when singer, songwriter, and guitarist Colin Meloy moved from Montana to Portland, Oregon and met bassist Nate Query, keyboardist Jenny Conlee, and guitarist Chris Funk, The Decemberists’ distinctive brand of hyperliterate folk-rock set them apart from the start with the release of their debut EP 5 Songs in 2001. After making their full-length debut with Castaways and Cutouts in 2002, the band signed with Kill Rock Stars for the release of the acclaimed albums Her Majesty the Decemberists (2003) and Picaresque (2005), which was produced by Chris Walla. The 2004 EP The Tain – an 18-minute single-track epic – made the band’s grand creative ambitions clear.

Around this time the band’s permanent line-up fell into place with the arrival of drummer John Moen, and they made the unexpected leap to Capitol Records for their first major label album in 2006. Fans’ concerns of whether the band would alter their trademark sound quickly vanished when they delivered their most ambitious and audacious record to date in The Crane Wife, a song cycle produced by Walla and Tucker Martine (who would become a longtime creative partner) that added elements of ‘70s prog, hard rock and even quasi-disco to their palette. The album was met by wide acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Stereogum, and was named Best New Music by Pitchfork.

Three years later, The Hazards of Love – a full-length concept album based on Meloy’s idea for a stage musical - was a Top 20 hit. In 2011, they topped themselves yet again with their first #1 album, The King Is Dead, which featured the Grammy-nominated song “Down By The Water.” After their 2015 album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, which included the #1 AAA radio hit “Make You Better,” The Decemberists changed up their sound and explored new approaches to making music on their eighth studio album I’ll Be Your Girl (2018) with producer John Congleton.

Over the past 20 years The Decemberists have toured the world, performed at countless major festivals, and even founded Travelers’ Rest a festival of their own curation in Missoula, Montana. The band has appeared on The Simpsons, collaborated with Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda, and released their own crowd-funded board game Illimat.