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Live review: The Avett Brothers
Though we reviewed the North Carolina-based Americana trio the Avett Brothers’ new album, ‘I and Love and You,’ earlier this week, it’s worth mentioning their live show, as the stage is where they really excel. The two brothers, Scott and Seth Avett, as well as bassist Bob Crawford and cellist Joe Kwan, are as about as animated as a mostly acoustic outfit can get, yelling, jumping and dancing their way through songs from their two most recent albums as well the the ‘Gleam’ EPs.
They stretched things out instrumentally as well, including a raucous bluegrass coda on ‘Laundry Room’ and an extended cello solo on ‘Salina.’ The band also took a couple rock turns, with Seth Avett plugging in on ‘Slight Figure of Speech.’ The brothers stood alone on stage for the slightly sappy, mostly moving ‘Murder in the City’ and closed with the climactic ‘Perfect Space.’ While the music isn’t exactly charting any new territory, the band is very good at what they do—tight harmonies, dance-along country numbers and big ballads.
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By chissy n
October 3, 2009 4:29 AM | Link to this
i’m loving the avett brothers—this new album is awesome, they did a great job. can’t wait to see a live performance!
By PT
October 5, 2009 10:53 AM | Link to this
“Not charting new territory”? BS, I don’t know how you got a job as a music reviewer. Just because they have old time influences, doesn’t make them ‘old-time’. They were probably the most innovative band I saw the whole weekend.
Go put your yellow ray-bans back on and listen to your MGMT album, and the likes of you shouldn’t be allowed to review class like that.