- I'd just be playing guitar, and one time I looked up and there's like all these naked people chopping wood.

(player laughs) Were you there with that one?

- I don't remember that one.

- You were their background music.

♪ Driving through the moonlight ♪ ♪ The cold and empty midnight ♪ I must hold you ♪ Before you're gone I think the first time I met Jack Klatt, we had gone to a secret illegal bonfire up on the hill by Cedar Lake and we got there and there were just 40 people up there playin' guitars and singin' and Jack Klatt was one of 'em.

- It was kind of where Hidden Beach was.

It's not so hidden anymore but it's like where all the punks and the hippies would come to have a nice day at the beach.

♪ Far away you're sleepin' ♪ I can feel your heart a-beatin' cross the mountain ♪ - Well, I knew that we were weirdos but I was just amazed at like, oh, there's a lot of us.

- Yeah!

- Folky weirdos out here and-- - Absolutely.

- And we're even in the same city and we even know some of the same songs.

- Yeah, it was pretty funny.

I mean, a bunch of kids playing 80-year-old folk songs.

- Yeah.

- It's like a slightly fun but competitive vibe.

(musicians laughing) You know the folkies can be pretty cutthroat and competitive.

♪ Running through my mind - It was a special time for me.

I kind of felt like I had met people I resonated with for the first time.

And a lot of those people, you guys included, are still in my life to this day.

Which is a special thing.

- [Page] Yeah.

- Good old Cedar Lake.

Oh, thank y'all so much.

- How'd you get so good at guitar, Jack Klatt?

- How did I get so good at guitar?

- Yeah, how'd you learn how to dance all over those strings?

(Jack Klatt laughs) - I just started doin' it a bunch.

♪ I've been spending all my time ♪ ♪ Smoking cigarettes and rhymes ♪ ♪ Tryin' to find the words to say ♪ ♪ But words get in the way ♪ Yeah, I'm doing fine I got my first guitar when I was like 16 and kind of immediately got (chuckles) ridiculously obsessed with it.

Teaching your hands to do strange things.

There's a tactileness to guitar playing that I think I attached to.

With the finger pickin' stuff there was like a couple of months where I'd duct taped my two fingers together.

- To train yourself to not use 'em all?

- I thought they were broken.

- No, (chuckles) I duct taped these two fingers together to kind of get the other ones independent.

I think I had 'em duct taped for like three weeks.

(Page laughs) I was very dedicated.

- Yep, that is not recommended though.

- No, not duct tape.

(chuckles) (gentle guitar music) - Whether it's, you know, painters and sculptors or musicians, it's never just one person that pops up.

You know, you had Spider John Koerner, and Tony Glover, and Dave Ray, and Bob Dylan showed up and realized, hey there's this scene.

There's this thing.

- It's like a little planet.

- It can be done.

(mellow music) There's just something so special about playing music with people especially when you've developed this kind of language and understanding with each other where it's easy and it's fun and it sounds good.

- Yeah, there's a lot of trust in it too, you know?

And everyone's trusting each other.

It feels pretty cool.

A lot of power there.

♪ If you were a hotel ♪ Then honey, you'd be a grand one ♪ ♪ But if you hit a slow spell ♪ Do you think you could stand one ♪ ♪ If you were a hotel ♪ Well I'd lean on your doorbell ♪ ♪ And I'd call you my home (audience applauds) Thanks, you guys.

(audience cheers)