["How Did It Get Dark So Fast" by Tall Tall Trees]
[bright alternative folk music]
- Mike Savino: ? How did it get dark so fast ?
? Winter, spring, and summer's past ?
? Leaves are raining from the treetops ?
? I wish that I could make it ?
? Every night you're on my mind ?
? Sound and picture crystalline ?
? Footsteps pounding on the rooftop ?
? I wish that I could make it stop ?
? I was afraid that I let you down ?
? Changing my story and losing my sound ?
? Oh it seems so simple when you're around ?
? A year within a day ?
? I say ?
[bright alternative folk music]
Appleton, what's up?
? Mmm words like fire, words like rain ?
? Were hanging from a silver chain ?
? Waiting on a lonely teardrop ?
? I wish that I could make it ?
? Stop ?
[bright alternative folk music]
? I was afraid that I let you down ?
? Changing my story and losing my sound ?
? Oh it seems so simple when you're around ?
? A year within the day ?
? If you want me to stay, then I will stay ?
? I will stay ?
[bright alternative folk music]
? Mmm how did it get dark so fast? ?
? Winter, spring, and summer's past ?
? Leaves are raining from the treetops ?
? I wish that I could make it ?
? Stop ?
[audience applauding and cheering]
Yeah, guys, what's up, how you doing?
[guitar strums] Sound okay out there?
[audience cheering]
We're Tall Tall Trees from Asheville, North Carolina.
It's kind of an unusual project.
I play electric psychedelic banjo.
[zapping sounds]
And Josiah plays the drums and synthesizer.
And yeah, we're two musicians.
We've been friends for 24 years,
and we've been playing together for...
- Josiah Wolf: On and off since then.
- On and off since then, yeah.
- The project started, it's Mike's project,
but I've become more and more involved.
- ? Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ?
Yeah, I mean, I feel like anywhere we go,
we always kind of get to surprise people
with what we're doing since we kind of, like,
have a very unique sound, and you know,
not a lot of people play banjo in the way that I do.
And Josiah, you know, and his drums
and modular synthesizer setup.
You know, we make a lot of noise for two people
and trying to keep it fun.
And yeah, hope we can bring some joy to some folks
out there, and just have a good time.
- Yeah.
["Say Something Real" by Tall Tall Trees]
[percussive banjo tapping]
[bright banjo music]
? I was in the front seat, you were in the back ?
? She was in the middle though sitting on your lap ?
? West of California, staring down the sun ?
? The sky it was a prism and heaven came undone ?
? Were you in the desert underneath the moon ?
? Planetary vision reflecting in the pool ?
? Laughing in the water, three becoming one ?
? They said that it was over, but we had just begun ?
? It feels like the end, but we've only begun ?
[high-energy banjo and percussion music]
Clap your hands! [clapping]
? You're comin' and goin' and walkin' and talkin' ?
? And playin' a foolish game ?
? I was lookin' at her lookin' at you lookin' at me ?
? We could be another couple in love ?
? And then wonderin' what's your name ?
? I want you to go, I want you to stay ?
? I want you to say something real, yeah ?
? Say something real, yeah ?
[high-energy banjo and percussion music]
[electric banjo solo]
[high-energy banjo and percussion music]
? Listen to the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" ?
? George was the one who played second to some ?
? Tell me what you're thinking, show me how you feel ?
? Spare me all the bull#### and tell me something real ?
? Open your heart up and say something real, yeah ?
? Say something real, yeah ?
[audience applauding and cheering]
Thank you so much, my friends.