Eric D. Johnson and Andy Cabic perform two shows at Henry Miller Library to close their micro tour.

Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson explains with humility the lightning-in-a-bottle infectiousness of the new record he released with Vetiver’s Andy Cabic just a week ago.

“It was kind of early in the morning when we [recorded] and I felt very groggy and was drinking coffee,” Johnson admits. “Maybe that came through in a way. But we’ve [played these songs] a lot together so they probably come out of us effortlessly.”

In Real Life is a collection of six stripped down acoustic arrangements, from both Johnson’s and Cabic’s catalogs (It also includes renditions of Bobby Charles’ “I Must Be In A Good Place Now” and David Blue’s “Nice Baby and the Angel”) recorded live at Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, Virginia. The exquisite harmonies delivered on Johnson’s “When U Love Somebody” amazingly mirror early Simon & Garfunkel.

Meanwhile, Johnson’s “Humbug Mountain Song” returns to the way it was originally intended. “I don’t always sit down and write with an acoustic guitar, but I actually wrote that song sitting next to a campfire,” Johnson says. “I don’t know when it morphed into the crazy country disco that it became.”

“When Andy and I play it’s very casual and easy,” Johnson explains. “I think people are feeling that easiness and it feels good to people, which is really cool.”

Both Johnson and Cabic have performed many times in each other’s respective projects throughout the years, but they’ve never released an album that captures them as a duo.

“We both have different approaches [to music] but it’s complimentary,” Johnson says. “We have enough overlap that it melts together – there’s a little bit of alchemy there.”

While the shows are billed as Vetiver solo and Fruit Bats solo, the two musicians perform together for the set’s entirety, moving back and forth between each other’s material. In Real Lifeis just the tastiest slice of those live shows. Cabic’s two tunes include “Maureen” from 2006’sTo Find Me Gone and “Rolling Sea,” off his 2009 Sub Pop debut.

“We definitely picked some crowd pleasers,” Johnson says. “Loose is exactly [the way to describe] our live shows.”

Following the tour with Cabic, Fruit Bats will release a new record sometime in the spring or summer. Additionally, Fruit Bats will appear at the tenth annual Huichica Music Festival in June. Johnson co-founded the two-day indie rock boutique event.

FRUIT BATS (solo) and VETIVER (solo) 7pm and 9pm Saturday, March 2. Henry Miller Library (indoors), 48603 Highway 1, Big Sur. Both shows sold out. folkyeah.com