The Decemberists - Down By The Water

From their new album "The King Is Dead"

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[Will Webb]

Fuck that. I'll take the banjo too, and not call it country.

[grimreap93]

Banjo country? Hahaha it originated in Africa, played by Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Buckethead and countless other non-country bands and artists. An instrument is not a genre, they way that instrument is played determines what genre it could sound like. I could make an Ibanez 7 string sound country if really wanted to.

[Brendyn Hull]

Sonny Moore. Look him up. Also First and the Last. Check 'em out. Same dude.

[Ron Cooney]

Smashing song!

[Elliott Mahoney]

maybe then. but music has evolved into that. Show me Skrillex without a computer.

[Andrew Karlson]

I think you may have taken that comment a little too literally. I think it's pretty easy to tell that I wasn't being serious.

[jdavis2502]

it is a good song but really?

[jdavis2502]

I just learned how to play the harmonica part

[MX13Danr0id]

the harmonica intro sounds very similar to Mana- "Vivir sin Aire"

[emmabilz65]

Sooo chillig *_*

[metallicakixtotalass]

Brent Hinds of Mastodon also plays it - particularly in the intro to "Divinations." His finger-and-pick style was directly inspired from his banjo-playing.

Banjo is a phenomenal instrument that I wish more musicians in different genres would use.

[Dennis Silva]

Really? Sapping junk? You just called Johnny Cash (and Patsy Cline, and Jennings, and Bob Dylan, and others awesome artists) of "sapping junk"? I admit I don't know exactly what means this expression, but I guess you are really and horribly, wrong.