The album, entitled Colin Meloy Sings Live!, will be released on April 8th through Kill Rock Stars, and comprises material taken from Meloy's 2006 solo acoustic tour.

Making up the album will be songs taken from Meloy's first band, Tarkio, and select cuts from all the Decemberists albums up until 2006. Other Decemberists' rarities include a cut from the 2006 EP Picaresqueties, snippets of Smiths, R.E.M., Pink Floyd, and Fleetwood Mac covers and two unreleased originals, Dracula's Daughter and Wonder.

Meloy will embark on another solo acoustic tour in the spring, but before then feast your eyes on the Sings Live! tracklisting:

Devil's Elbow
We Both Go Down Together
Evoking a Campfire Singalong
The Gymnast, High Above the Ground
Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect / Dreams
Dracula's Daughter
Wonder
A Brief Introduction to Shirley Collins
Barbara Allen
The Engine Driver
On the Bus Mall
A Skull, a Ship, and a Sheep
California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade / Ask
The Bachelor and the Bride
A Cautionary Song
Red Right Ankle
Bandit Queen

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