News From Barbaria: An Email To Laurie About The Avett Brothers (If you enjoy Jim Croce's music, don't miss the Avett Brothers' cover of "Operator." The link is located close to the end of this post.)

"Listening To The Avett Brothers And Thinking About Extreme Musical Honesty"

The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/listening-to-the-avett-brothers-and-thinking-about-extreme-musical-honesty

Dear Laurie

Thanks for your email.

IxtapaFest was a blast.

Cynthia, who is back in Chicago now, was a GREAT help, enabling me to manage, ignore -- and sometimes transcend! -- the stress and anxiety of performance weekend.

No, I did not receive a photo of your memorial card for Fred... or at least I do not remember it as such.

Please send... or re-send!

Here is a fine YouTube collection of the Avett Brothers, starting with "If I Get Murdered In The City": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxf-3qj34Pz9bszVi1i1M5fseBMirNIA1

And here is a full length (beautifully recorded) concert The Avett Brothers gave in Brooklyn less than 6 months ago. (This "live show" is my personal favorite.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRu3LiyV8KE

Unfortunately, "No Hard Feelings" is not on the setlist.
But here is a live version you may like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LPns-58HS0
And the following rendition of "No Hard Feelings" was made for a recent Avett Brothers documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaU2HvRhCPw

And here are a few more Avett Brothers' songs I find beautiful:

February Seven (close captioned): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkVM4AxzxCE

Morning Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQZnHv74dQ

Head Full Of Doubt, Road Full Of Promises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYSqZPzwr8

"I And Love And You": https://youtu.be/T0eSpAgqrWo

"Step Into The Light": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEpxnvNJzCc
"I Go To My Heart": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCNuJLofhE0
"We Americans" (This is as fully political as the Avett Bros get): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MKm9TB9b6s

"Paranoia In B-flat Major: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4pjrmH967c

"Salvation Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftt5KH6TnhE

"Live And Die": https://youtu.be/e5CMDmxtpbc

"Ain't No Man": https://youtu.be/zz0JXbwNUk8

"Divorce-Separation Blues": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56dahg34hl0

"Closer Walk With Thee" (the classic gospel song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucMN-FF_nA

"If It's The Beaches": https://youtu.be/FuaLFVLcxM0

The Avett Brothers performing on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts: "The Laundry": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQRt6p8T7g

Here is a "user comment" posted on the YouTube link immediately above: "With all due respect to its terrific albums and kinetic, frenetic live shows, if The Avett Brothers could put on a three-song acoustic concert at every workplace in America, the band would be a world-beating colossus. For proof, listen to this performance in the NPR Music offices." (Above)

New Year's Eve Celebration, 2021 - 3 hour, 8 minutes from start to finish. (Inexplicably, there is a 12 minute silent lead-in to his video"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD1DD5jYjwM

Megyn Kelly Interviews The Avett Brothers and comedian Judd Apatow who, oddly, filmed the 2019 Avett Brothers documentary, "May It Last": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqdt8plQsE8

The Avett Brothers Interview - Mountain Jam 2016 - Radio Woodstock 100.1, WDST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBHVEkVfyWk

The Avett Brothers
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avett_Brothers

Pax et amor

Alan

Alan: What follows is my recommendation of The Avett Brothers to a young friend named Abi, the lovely daughter of a Mexican-Chilean Methodist minister.

If you don't mind getting hooked, check out just this one song, "No Hard Feelings" - and blow off the rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaU2HvRhCPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRu3LiyV8KE&t=309s

And here is The Avett Brothers' gorgeous cover of Jim Croce's "Operator" which Danny and I played yesterday when you were with us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJwW3f1P-g

If you're now "on board," you might want to give a listen to "Morning Song" (which is accompanied by wonderful video "glimpses"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQZnHv74dQ

Just for fun, check out the two minutes of Seth and Scott fast-talking at the 13:25 minute mark of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SMwa2c7-rE

Then, try to imagine singing this "rap" in sync.

Whoa, Nellie!!!

The Avett Brothers jump a lot. (Sadly the only photograph that captures this cannot be downloaded but you can view it at https://avettbrothers.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_songs_The_Avett_Brothers_cover

They also laugh and smile a lot.

You can get a great glimpse of these "self-centered hillbillies" from the trailer of Judd Apatow's documentary, "May It Last: A Portrait Of The Avett Brothers"