The Decemberists perform "Down by the Water" live. Before playing, they mention working on a nearly finished new record and note a personal rule about playing harmonica whenever performing with Bob Dylan.
I'm gonna play the harmonica on this one. There's a stipulation: you play with Bob Dylan, you have to play with a harmonica. So we're fitting it in somehow. Actually, we're working on a new record and it's nearly, nearly done.
Yeah!
And so we're gonna play a couple songs of that. Yeah!
3 to be exact. Right now.
This one's called Down by the Water.
Yeah! Down by the water, down by the old main drag. I was just sun-soaked, feeling all the fingers digging in the paint. Down by the water, down by the old main drag. The sea runs me raw. Down the pretty little gutter of a sea port town, rolling in the water, rolling down the old main track. Thump, thump, thumping gabardine, the lights flashing, we are here, 19. Queen of the water, queen of the old main track. Seaside rhymes rewind.
Yeah! Thank you. Oh, I feel good. Hold on, we are not getting any guitar up here.
