“Rise To Me” by The Decemberists

"Rise To Me" comes from The King Is Dead, the Decemberists' sixth studio album, which Capitol put out on January 14, 2011, and which Rolling Stone's Douglas Wolk heard as the most pastoral, rustic thing they'd done. It's the record where Colin Meloy deliberately stepped away from the British folk revival that had steered the band's previous three albums and went digging in American traditions instead.

Meloy wrote this one alone, words and music, and sings it, playing acoustic guitar and harmonica, with Gillian Welch joining on background vocals. Chris Funk plays pedal steel, Jenny Conlee piano, Nate Query bass, and John Moen handles drums and tambourine. Tucker Martine produced it with the band and recorded and mixed it himself.

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