Colin Meloy -Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) - live at Newport Folk Festival July 2013

Colin Meloy Live In Concert: Newport Folk Festival 2013, recorded live on Saturday, July 27 in Newport, R.I.
After announcing that his band would take a long-term hiatus, The Decemberists' frontman focuses on writing, child-rearing and performing solo. Watch members of The Decemberists - at the festival as Black Prairie - and Laura Veirs join Meloy on a version of "Yankee Bayonet".

After a long flurry of activity culminating in the release of The Decemberists' 2011 album The King Is Dead, frontman Colin Meloy announced his long-running, best-selling band would take a lengthy hiatus. Several of the remaining group members began to focus on the side project Black Prairie — which is also playing this year's Newport Folk Festival — while Meloy has focused on writing, child-rearing and performing solo. Even before putting his band on hold, Meloy had released a live solo album and the self-explanatorily titled EPs Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins, Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke and Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey.