Picaresque Turns 20

When I saw the Decemberists play NYC venue Webster Hall in the fall of 2005 — a little over six months after the band released their third album Picaresque — there was a sense that Colin Meloy and his highly whimsical crew of Portland-hailing folk-rock myth-makers were on the type of career trajectory that bands of their ilk can only dream of. You could quite literally feel it in the room, as Meloy dropped some mid-set banter about how major-label folks were hanging out in the upper balco...

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