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How did you first hear about the Avetts?
Posted: Freitag, April 3, 2009 - 17:59
My friend Sarah turned me onto them. And for that i am grateful.
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To a very strange venue in Norwalk Connecticut where someone was having a benefit. Somebody was smart enough to book the Avetts.
Paul Simon was there. And a lot of drunk banker types. But the Brothers shined through it all.
magnet magazine.
My friend that went to Rhythm and Roots with me in 2007 told me I should go see them. I went, and was hooked.
I saw flyers for the McMenamins NW Tour they did around Portland in 2007 (i think). Sadly didn't make it any of those shows, but I did end up checking out Emotionalism.
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WNCW 88.7
A friend who went to school in Chestertown Maryland told me I had to hear this great band called the Avett Brothers that she'd seen perform live at this little bar next door to where she worked...she made me a mix cd as a gift and put "please pardon yourself" on it. HOOKED
My boyfriend dowloaded "Swept Away" on our fourth date. We danced in my tiny kitchenette. I was sold on them and on him.
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a really great girl i worked with would listen to them, and i've been hooked since then!
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In early 2004 I bought an 8 CD box set showcasing 125 Charlotte area artists titled Complex Radio. One of those 125 songs was a little ditty called Sorry Man from The Avett Brothers. That track stood out to me, along with a handful of others, though to be honest it did not knock me out. About a month later I saw their set at Merlefest and about three songs in they did Sorry Man. My slow functioning brain finally made the connection and I realized they were from the Charlotte area. After the festival I contacted them about upcoming shows and my addiction began. Charlotte was my 75th Avett performance.
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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. ." - David Byrne
Some friends of mine from work started a cd club that met quarterly and created a mixed cd based on a chosen theme. The first meeting of the new year was always the "best of...." from the previous year. One member of the group included an Avett's song two years in a row. The first one was "When I Drink" I enjoyed it, but didn't explore their music any further. The second brought "Die, Die, Die" and I was hooked.
I heard them on WQFS one day a little over a couple years ago. I was listening and just fell in love. Some people say I'm crazy when I say this, but I heard the Avett Brothers and my life changed forever. The bad part was they didn't say who it was, so I had to wait a while before I figured that one out. I bought "Emotionalism" at Floyd Fest 2008 and they have been my favorite band ever since. They can always bring a smile to my face, make me cry, fill me with hope, and sing exactly what I need to hear. I love the Avett Brothers!
I can't remember how I first came to hear one of their songs, but I know it was "Die, Die, Die". I was instantly hooked!
The first time I saw them live was last year on November 1st at the Peace Center in Greenville, SC. I really don't know how I managed to get seats in the orchestra pit, but I'm glad I did! It was really amazing, and I was also introduced to Nicole Atkins for the first time at that show.
Fast forward to now, and I've seen them three times. It sounds really small compared to how many shows others have seen, (Sunday!) but I plan to see them any and every time I get a chance to.
I'm into a lot of different bands and music in general, but the Avett Brothers have very quickly ranked #1 on that list. I can't remember the last time I was this excited about a band, or felt that they so genuinely deserved the attention!
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well growing up in Concord, I went and saw NEMO a few times at high school parties, etc.... then we started hearing about this side project they were working on, which was NEMO downstairs.... it really didn't hit for me until my buddy played mignonette for me back in 05.... its been quite the addiction
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Somewhere around Feb or Mar of '08, I went to visit my son, and as we were driving around, he put a CD in the player. Traveling Song was the first song I heard. I loved it instantly. The second song that totally hooked me was Sorry Man. Then Me and God. After a month or so listening to A Caroline Jubilee daily, and looking up videos on the web, my son bought me Emotionalism. At the first listen, I was almost shocked because it was so different. By the second listen, I thought it was the most perfect album I had ever heard. Then I found out they were actually playing about an hour from my house (Dewey) in July. Bought tickets to the greatest show I had ever seen. I bought Mignonette that night, and was floored from the first note of Swept Away. I'm still in awe.
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At the end of the set, the old man who was going to be behind the wheel for the long haul home said, "Boys, that gave me God bumps."
My son works in the music industry and is always telling me about new music. He told me to "check out this band!" at a very small venue here in Seattle. Because I couldn't find anyone to go to the mid week show, I didn't go.
When my son sent me the 4 Thieves Gone CD, I sat down and listened to it all the way through. I was hooked. First time I finally saw them live was on the main stage and then in the barn at Pickathon. I was completely blown away by their live show and kicked myself repeatedly for not seeing them at the Tractor alone.
Today it wouldnt matter at all if I am alone or with friends. If they are within traveling distance, I'm going to the show.
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Plus, you're never alone at an Avetts show! The Nation is all over the country now!
I read a small piece about them in No Depression magazine about the release of A Carolina Jubilee, ordered it from Ramseur & then had to wait far too long to see them! I've got four shows in four states coming up in a few weeks, lets gooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I went to a small university in Charlotte, and our homecoming is centered around basketball. My fraternity had a meeting two days before homecoming, and the president made the announcement that the school is paying the house to host "some bluegrass band" to play in the house. I grew up in WV with bluegrass and real country, so I was eager to check them out.
That band was the Avett Brothers. This was Feb. 2003, and I've been following them ever since.
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We are the true believers.
WQFS was my first exposure too. I even won tickets to see them at Ziggy’s off of the Sunday Morning Rehab Show. You have to love independent radio.
My best friend Robbie went to ECU...he would see TAB when they played small bars and such. Summer 2005, we went to Rock the Block, a summer thing in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. He said we had to go watch this band I had never heard of...I went, thinking nothing of it. He even told me he thought I wouldnt like them...The rest is history. I fell in love that night.
I saw them the next year at Rock the Block...its never been the same since without TAB!
ETA: The one song I really remember from that first show was Love Like the Movies.
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The fella I was dating about 2 and a half years ago told me he heard a song that made him realize he missed me...it was 40 East. Instantly hooked. He had/has no like for them in anyway (minus 40 East) and I'm a total avett-holic. Just wonderful, what a great first song to hear, and it's not even all that bluegrass, and it's Bob!
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A friend from high school constantly talked about them and Amelia and I thought she was insane and obsessed, and one day we decided to give them a listen and see what all the hype was about. So we listened to Paranoia I think and I liked it, but pretty much forgot about it after that point. A few days later Amelia showed me a video on youtube of Scott singing Murder in The City and I was hooked. We got lucky, and they were coming to Southgate house a few months later so we bought tickets and went and then we were officially obsessed. Now two years and 15 shows later Im just as crazy about them as I was when I first saw that Murder in the City video.
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In the fall of 2006, a friend and I took a road trip to see Todd Snider at the Canal Street Tavern (great show!) and he forgot to grab his CDs out of my car when we returned to Kentucky. While flipping through, the artwork from Four Thieves gone caught my eye, so I popped it in and fell in love. The rest is history.
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lildeadhead: that pen she uses to keep her setlists? it's a human-finger bone. dipped in the blood of the ones who yell out during "murder in the city". poetic, no?
Summer 2005, my boyfriend and I were heading out to go see a movie. I got to his house, and he wasn't close to ready, because he was burning his sister's cd's of this "really good local band" (apparently, he uses the term local loosely, since we both lived in Greensboro at the time). He played "At The Beach," and though I knew instantly that it was good, I was mad that he wasn't ready and we were going to be late for the movie, so I kind of blew it off. I seem to remember the movie being one of those Matt Damon "Bourne Identity" movies, and we missed the beginning, and I still don't know what the heck happened. However, as someone else has already said, I heard The Avett Brothers and my life changed, and my whole family would have me committed to some nut hut in the mountains if they didn't have to love me unconditionally; they think I'm bat crap crazy. I soon collected all the Avett music that his sister had, which included just Carolina Jubilee, Mignonette, and Live Volume 2. About a month later, shortly into my first semester at ECU, they were playing Freeboot Friday. Before, I was nervous to get too attached to them, because most local bands I'd ever liked had broken up and I didn't want to get my hopes up, but after seeing them live, I couldn't turn back, even if I wanted to. I just counted out 28 shows that I've seen them since that summer, but I thought it was closer to 35...not that the shows haven't been memorable, but my memory sucks. Anyways, the point is that I love these guys.
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"Life's too short, just be nice."
Since I did not have any friends that liked roots/Americana/whaterever you want to call it music, I had to stumble across things on the internet. As I was checking out the 2006 lineup for Wakarusa in Lawrence, KS I saw The Avett Brothers name, but didn't check it out for a couple months. I liken the first listen of TAB to my first listen of Nirvana back in the day. They both were doing things so different for the times and it was like - "this is what I have been waiting for". Their music really helped me through 2006-2008 when my husband worked in Baghdad. Luckily, when he came back and saw that TAB was about all I listened to anymore, he got hooked as well. We went to our first concert about 6 weeks after he came home.
My wife had a friend in college (the guy who knows all the cool music) and they were coming to Salt Lake and on his music blog he was inviting everyone to come to the show (spreading the gospel of the Avetts) I was out of town working so my wife went with her friends and when I talked to her minutes after the show she said I have bought you a ticket for the show in Boise and I drove up by myself and witnessed history my life hasn't been the same since my wife was given "wife of the year" for that act.
2 years ago while on vacation at Surfside Beach, the folks renting the house next to us were playing this music that id never heard & I had no idea who it was. Ive always had a hard time explaining what I love about music, I just know the sound was so down home and different. The song was Offering id later find out. I had to go over and find out who it was they were playing. In typical Avett fan fashion, they invited us over that night and while our kids played together, we shot the breeze, had a few drinks and they played songs off of A Carolina Jubilee and Mignonette. Its amazing how long you can go without something and then find it and wonder how you lived without it in the first place.
Thank you to Pete and Janice for welcoming us into their summer home and turning me onto the best thing since sliced bread.
My kids love the Avetts and I hope to bring them soon to a show and show them what a few local boys can do when you put your heart and soul into something.
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Don't laugh, but I first heard of The Avetts last year from Stirred over on a Jason Castro (American Idol) fan board. We've got a thread that's all about other music and we love to share our new found favorites. Stirred had been posting youtube videos for a while. I finally opened up the official Murder in the City video and I was hooked. The lyrics and the love between them made me want to know more. Now I own most of their cd's and just saw them in Orlando/Tampa.
Thanks Stirred for promoting The Avetts!!!!
I have the best one. Rolling Stone, March 2009. Summer preview. DUH!
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Ex-boyfriend was quite the fan. I moved on from him, but just got more hooked on The Avetts!
bob told me he was auditioning for these two guys in a parking lot.
Concord is a small town, no one makes good music and gets away with it around here. First heard them in 05, but they really didn't grab my attention until late 05 early 06. I had some buddies go the 4 thieves gone release party and bring back some gifts. Since then I've had a mad addiction to these guys.
my brother played "love like the movies" for me on his guitar...I liked it. But then I plugged in his Ipod and heard "sanguine" and actually said (gasp) "I don't want to listen to this crap"...time went on and I gave them a few more listens... and quickly became addicted (hence, my screen name).
I have to say that Sanguine is now one of my favorite songs. Just goes to show how much smarter a person can become in a years time.
oh yeah, and now my brother makes fun of how "addicted" my wife and I are to the band.
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Back in late 2004/early 2005, I was still in exile in South Carolina and, any time I could, I'd tune into 88.7 WNCW just to get a taste of home. They were playing the Avett Brothers regularly and it grew on me very quickly. I didn't dive head first into them, though, until early 2007. I was going through a divorce and their music plus that of Wilco ("Sky Blue Sky" is a helluva an album for a broken heart) and Ben Folds got me through a lot. When Emotionalism came out, I was turned from an appreciative listener into a hardcore fan.
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i didnt learn about them untill FloydFest 08, i didnt even know they were going to play, but they had the very last show so i sat down and tuned in, before i knew it i was up and dancing and making my way to the stage, i've been hooked ever since!
ByrneHey Clemcord, where was that 4 Thieves Party, and what were the gifts? I am wondering if it was the same one I attended.
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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. ." - David
i was hanging out at a friends house and we were listening to music off of youtube, a buddy of mine told me to type in the avett brothers, so i did, atfirst i really didnt think anything of them and really didnt listen to them. then one morning i woke up hearing some music playing throughout my house, and immeadiatly i said to myself that's the avett brothers. My younger brother was playing four thieves gone(one of his friends let him borrow the cd). from that morning on i was constantly online trying to listen to every song i could find.
Being one who tries to follow and support local music, I had heard some buzz about TAB...read a bit, etc., but one fine and otherwise innocent day my daughter begged and pleaded with me to take her to the mall...I succumbed and while killing time traipsing around, I hear some music far off in the distance, and there is no mistaking the fact that it sounds like live music, so I followed my ears to the FYE store and the first thing I see when I creep up thru the crowd is a guy laying on the ground, spinning around, playing an amped up banjer!!!! I was thinking, well, who the hell is this, then I asked the question to some kid next to me, who says...:The Avett Brothers Man" Not sure exactly how long ago it was and I wish I remembered what songs I heard, but nonetheless, I was immediately smitten and fell absolutely more and more in love, the more I found out about them and the more music I heard. When Emotionalism came out, I played it over and over again, so much so, that although my children seemed to "like" it at first, they came to squeal out "MOM, please!!!!! Play something else!!!!! These songs get stuck in my head! I was so taken by the sentiment of the lyrics of that release, that I got a tribute tattoo, inspired by the album artwork! I preach the gospel of TAB to EVERYONE and I am not at all ashamed of my fangirlism...even at my age! shhhhhhhhh....don't ask...
On my way home from the Appalachain Mountains about 2 years ago. I was riding home with my brother. First song I heard was Talk on Indolence. Never heard anything like it before. By the end of the ride home I had found a new band to listen to...never did I think I would grow to love The Avett Brothers as much as I do. They are all I want to listen to anymore. And I thank my brother for introducing me to this amazing band.
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sunday, I believe it was in Chapel Hill maybe. Don't take my word on that, my memory leaves me sometimes. I will ask my buddies next time I see them and figure it out. And they brought me a copy of the cd as a gift.
i was on my way to a rage against the machine show at alpine valley when they went on their reunion tour. I was driving on the highway and my brother put will you return on the ipod. i was very impressed needless to say and i eventually forgot them for a while untill i picked up my friends banjo. i had so much fun playing it he let me borrow it for a little bit. i was looking up for tabs of songs with banjo in them so i looked up like john butler trio, wilco,....then i couldnt think of anything else. i asked my brother if he could think of any songs with a banjo and hes like learn some avett brothers. so i instantly remembered them and wondered how i forgot about them. since then i have been overly obsessed....man i forgot about my first listen! i wish i had a time machine.
from MegaPav
2005...after a night of drinking at Peach's in Yellow Springs. My friend Sal & I stumbled back to his apartment and he tossed in A Carolina Jubilee that he had picked up from the bargin bin at a Gem City records. Hooked me & renewed my faith in music...Thanks Sal & TAB!
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From Timdog!
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my sister-in-law was at a small little place in wv called the purple fiddle. the brothers played there a few years back. she was lucky to pick up a copy of the gleam. the people working at the purple fiddle said it's hard to keep their music in stock because of high demand.
one evening my brother and i were talking about music and how certain bands have had an impact on us. he said, "you gotta hear this," so he popped in the copy of the gleam....the rest is history. we bought all the available recordings in a mad fury. i still can't get enough.
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I would have to thank Mr Conan O'Brien for introducing me to the Avett Brothers.
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Merlefest 2005, thanks to my son. (see avatar photo)
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my first show with TAB was at the echo project festival in GA in october 2007...i was at work (st. joseph's hospital, incidentally! lake junaluska is about 35 minutes away!) and mentioned to one of my pals that i was going...she looked at the lineup and said, "OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO GO SEE THE AVETT BROTHERS!" she also gave me copies of four thieves gone (robbinsville, about 80 minutes away!) and emotionalism to sample. i really only listened to four thieves gone a couple of times, and not with super-focused intent, and enjoyed it but didn't GET it
i saw the boys' set at the festival and THEN.I.GOT.IT. have been to, i believe, 7 shows (8 if'n you count the video shoot) since then, and have been BLOWN AWAY every time. even the 3 night set they did @ the orange peel i got to see last year: each night was completely different AND completely amazing (how many bands do YOU know that can have a roomful of 1000 people smiling and singing along with a song called "SHAME"?) and had its own incredible energy. i am eternally grateful to my friend for turning me on -- she gave me an amazing gift by introducing me to The Avett Brothers. even though that was short of 2 years ago, i feel like i've sort of "known" this band forever...their music & lyrics & playfulness & genuineness & passion resonate with me in ways that truly feed my soul...i'm a lucky, lucky girl!
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