Between 2003 and 2005, Carson and I rented an upstairs apartment from our then label president Chad Crouch. We each had workrooms of our own, and mine faced Fargo street. I wrote and recorded all of what became the songs for The Decemberists’ 2005 record, Picaresque, in that room. This one, The Engine Driver, came pretty easy, I remember. I might do a d…
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