Artist: Avett Brothers
Live Reviews from web archive January 4, 2009
Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers find themselves in an unusual situation at the dawning of 2009. Much of the country has just been through an extraordinarily difficult year. The music industry is morphing into an entirely different animal, with the value of recorded works continuing its spectacular nosedive toward zero. The Concord, North Carolina, band has strong [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Various Artists – Tradition in transition
It’s Saturday morning at Merlefest in late April 2007, and the main stage is a whirlwind of rapid-fire musical collaborations. Leonard Podolak of Canadian string band the Duhks is playing ringmaster to what has been billed the “New Generation Super Jam” — an hour-and-a-half free-for-all featuring members of the Duhks, Uncle Earl, the Infamous Stringdusters [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #69 May-June 2007
Avett Brothers – Sing out!
It all starts, and ends, with the voices. Shorthand attempts to classify the Avett Brothers usually go something along the lines of “punk bluegrass” or “thrash folk” or “high-energy hillbilly.” None of which are necessarily improper; Scott and Seth Avett will be the first to acknowledge their debt to ’90s grunge, even as they take [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Avett Brothers – The Gleam
A six-song postscript to their recent long-player Four Thieves Gone, this EP shows only the softer side of the fast-rising North Carolina acoustic trio, but to splendid effect. While in concert the Avetts catch fire largely on the spark of their more strident and fiery stompers, they also clearly have an affinity for ballads. The [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
The Avett Brothers – Blast from the grass
One year, just before the International Bluegrass Music Association left Louisville’s Galt House hotel complex for Nashville, the Avett Brothers were invited to join the festivities. “For three or four days the hotel is bluegrass central,” remembers bassist Bob Crawford. “It’s really fun, just a big party. So one day we decided to set up [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #57 May-June 2005
Avett Brothers – Live, Volume 2
Creating an original sound in Americana is not easily accomplished, but that’s what the Avett Brothers have done. The band’s music is not quite bluegrass, not quite country and not quite rock, but it combines elements of each to form an all-acoustic hybrid. Though the Avetts have made impressive studio albums over the last few [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Avett Brothers – Raggedy Righteousness
“Screaming my lungs out with nothing to say.” So goes the key line of “Please Pardon Yourself”, a song of almost palpable yearning and hope from the Avett Brothers’ new album Mignonette. I’ll give them the first part of that lyric: The trio’s harmonies do involve a certain degree of hollering, much more so than [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Martin Stephenson / Avett Brothers – Riverside House Concert (Durham, NC)
On this night, Martin Stephenson didn’t choose to play his lovely song “We Are Storm” from 1990′s Pete Anderson-produced (and recently reissued) Salutation Road, but it would have fit. Courtesy of the format for this house concert, which found the North Carolina’s Avett Brothers playing between Stephenson’s two sets, he and his guitar-playing, dobro-dabbling accompanist [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Avett Brothers – A Carolina Jubilee
On this live-wire debut, the work of Seth and Scott Avett and their standup-bass-playing friend, Bob Crawford, exudes much of the same exhilarating sense of discovery that characterized Uncle Tupelo’s March 16-20, 1992 and the Gourds’ Dem’s Good Beeble. It’s as if the Concord, North Carolina, group stumbled upon a stack of recordings from fellow [...]
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