Tall Tall Trees (band)

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Tall Tall Trees
Background information
Origin	Long Island, New York
Genres	Indie folk, experimental, psychedelic, bluegrass
Instrument	Banjo
Years active	2009-present
Labels	Joyful Noise Recordings
Members	Mike Savino
Website	talltalltrees.com

Tall Tall Trees is the musical pseudonym of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist banjo player Mike Savino. Though occasionally joined by collaborators, Savino usually performs as a "one-man psychedelic indie-folk orchestra" when playing as Tall Tall Trees. He is acknowledged as a pioneer in the world of experimental banjo music.^[1] The name of the project was inspired by the George Jones-Roger Miller song of the same name.^[2]

Savino calls his home-brewed, custom-built instrument/equipment set-up the "Banjotron 5000." He built it himself in order to be able to solo at live-shows. He runs his banjo "through a slab of effects pedals and loopers, bowing, drumming, and strumming out multi-textured arrangements to support his lyrically driven songs."^[3]

Stylistically, Tall Tall Trees as a, "a vital collision between Elliott Smith and Rogue Wave"^[3] or compared to, "a new age Cat Stevens with dreamy harmonies."^[4] Influenced by Deer Tick and Fleet Foxes, Tall Tall Trees is most easily classified as "indie-folk" but the scope of Savino's formal experimentation and the complexity of the soundscapes created trouble the boundaries of this easy genre-definition.^[3]