honest and true like it should be

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"a woman's heart runs on gasoline"

Heard it live, heard it hear, and I hear it from now on.

"...like a pair of stolen polished dimes..."

Who writes that?

"...dumbed down and numbed by time and age..."

Who realizes that, then writes it?

And I go on in awe.

you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone for the avetts are a-changing

4 words that aren't hard to say! I absolutely cannot wait until September for the album to come out. This is a welcome sneak-peak - I love this tune!

I and love and you has been repeating since download!!!
LOVE IT

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refamily

The Avett Brothers are still continuing to impress! I am looking forward to the album coming out, I have got to listen to some new music. Ever since my brother showed me more of the Avett Brothers music I have played them over and over all day.

This song is simply beautiful!

Its saddening to hear such shallow talk about a band that is truly unique. You talk like hearing one of their songs in the top 40 is a bad thing? That's just strange that you would want other people to change to the way you would have it, rather than to watch their art grow and reach a broader audience. By the way that whole " I want them to..." stuff has diseases named after it.

Loved the song at new years but on this you can hear every nuance and its just a beautiful song.

Jones,

You may have misunderstood my intent in my review of the first 3 songs off their upcoming album. These first three songs are brilliant in their lyrics, melodies, and uniqueness. It has nothing to do with their character, talent, or growing as musicians. It just has to do with the way their music was digitally changed, especially in Laundry Room. I do believe that, when it's all said and done, the Avett Brothers will be saying the same thing.

I love these guys, and I will be an avid fan no matter what direction they take. The truth is, even if they decide to turn out top 40 hits, they will do it better than anyone else, and I'll buy all their albums. I've heard them live three times, and I've been truly inspired every time. But when they take a song like Laundry Room, and calm it down so much that it almost sounds like elevator music, it's impossible not to notice! There is nothing wrong with appealing to a wider audience, but I can't help but feel that the corporate music big shots went a little too far in making them sound so easy.

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lnevedal

but moved....just like I am after listening to anything by TAB....I and Love and Them!!

I'm dying for the cd to come out, I like how they are putting more piano in the songs now, although I also love the Gleam's style

Like a Quentin Tarintino movie, the Avett provides me with remedy for the dull and hard feelings I feel. It is not a fun feeling, yet the Avett provides comfort. This music can forgive a broken soul, hit you where it hurts the most.But yet, Instead of a harsh blow you will find your wounds healing. This music has helped me through so much. Thank you Seth and Scott Avett. You are truly the epitome of the word "musicians." Thanks again

-your most sincere friend,

absolutely stunning! my beard is pleased.
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BanjoBeard

I've been listening to the Avetts since around Country Was. With their latest addition to their already fabulous library of music, I and Love and You is definitely a show stopper. My close friends and I were at the Avett's music video shoot for this single and it was quite a show. I believe that anyone is able to relate to their music in some way, shape or form. The Avetts are so great because they sing and write about the struggles that we go through in everyday life. Whether they be love, loss, and hurt. Whatever they may be, I and Love and You is sure to be a great album and this single is definitely one of their best.

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Live and love for the music.

Inspirational, Honest, True.

An Apology to Young Men upon Gaining an Understanding of their Struggle with an attempt to explain Our part and Our side. Using the Inspiration offered by the Avett Brothers, with Italics, Underlines, Strikethroughs, and Additions of my own, in order to explain and to ask for and to offer forgiveness in the hopes of a new Understanding for bothe.

--Sarah H. McLeod

The Words “I” and “Love” and “You” are the watermark of humanity. Strung together, they convey our deepest sense of humility, of power, of TRUTH. It is our most common sentiment, even as the feeling of it is so infinitely uncommon: each to proclaim these three words with his or her very own heart and mindset of reason (or lack thereof); a proclamation completely and perfectly new each time it is offered. Uttered daily and nightly (and irresponsibly) by millions, the words are said in an unending array of circumstances-- whispered to the newborn in a mother’s arms; shared between best friends on the playground; in the form of sympathy—said by a girl to a boy, as the respect continues but the relationship does not. It is said too loudly by parents to embarrassed children (isn’t it sad that our children are embarrassed by love) in the company of their friends (true friends would respect love), and by grown children—to their fading parents in hospital beds (oh the inhumanity of the anonymous hospital, the terrible final destination for too many). The words are thought in the company of the photograph and said in the company of the gravestone. It is how we end our phone calls and our letters… The words at the bottom of the page that trump all those above it, as a way to gracefully finish a message, however important or trivial, with the most meaningful gift of all: the communication of LOVE.

And YET the words themselves have been the victims of triviality, a ready replacement for lesser salutations amongst near strangers, burst forth casually as “love ya!” Truly? To what degree? Why? How much? And for how long? These are questions (deserving answers) befitting the stature of LOVE, though not the everyday banter of vague acquaintance. The words have also been TWISTED by the dark nature of deceit: to say “I love you” with a dramatic measure of synthetic emotion: a SNARE set by those who prey on fellow humanity (I am so sorry), driven to whatever selfish end, to gain access to another’s body, or their money, or their opportunity (I intended neither of these). In this realm the proclamation is disgraced by one seeking to gain rather than to give.

In any case, and by whatever inspiration, these words are woven deeply into the fibers of our existence. Our longing to hear them from the right place (from the right person at the right time) is maddeningly and simultaneously our finest strength and our most gentle weakness. As living people we are bound by this unavoidable parallel. We are powerful yet weak, capable yet temporary.

We are products of Love surrounded by STRUGGLE.

A chapter in the story of young men (explaining to young women) The Avett Brothers bridge the space BETWEEN the uncertainty (I Understand) of youth and the reality of its release. As far as questions go, there are plenty—the most basic and relatable doubt comes through with a resounding clarity. OUTSIDE of the eternal theme of Romantic Love (let us be friends)—there is a landscape of light-filled rooms, word-filled pages, time machines, forgiveness, singing birds!, falling leaves, beautiful trees, moving clouds, ocean waves, art, change, confessions of short-comings, AND REASONS TO CONTINUE ON.

HOPE and a cause for smiling follow naturally. In the midst of all of this, there are allusions to the less-than-ideal conditions of LIFE: the loss of memory, the inability to control temper, insecurity, indecision, jaded indifference (Causing so much pain), and the general plague of former and current weakness. Emotional IMPERFECTION is a reality.

The words “I Love You” have become “hard to say.” And perhaps that difficulty is as common as its counterpart. Perhaps the inability to say these heaviest of words is as much a part of life as the lighthearted candor of those who say them without any difficulty at all.

--The Avett Brothers “I and Love and You”

And perhaps the words have lost all of their meaning because so many people have sought escape from sadness, pain, loneliness, in damaging ways and admitted their love when motives were still in question.

Perhaps instead of stating our LOVE spontaneously, catching the other completely off guard, we should first, when the right Time avails itself, request the permission to love with the admission that IF granted we WILL love.

The IMPORTANCE is saying what you must at the appropriate TIME. The STRUGGLE is needing to say something at an inappropriate TIME. The BEAUTY is finding a way to SAY what MUST be said without communicating it at an inappropriate TIME, so that you can achieve PEACE of mind, and find contentment, and LET GO. And HOPE WITHOUT HURTING.

--Sarah H. McLeod

This one reached out and grabbed my heart. This song is high art. It speaks to the human soul.

I rarely am completely awestruck by music. It happened one other time - it was pouring rain and I was wearing a garbage bag, dripping water all over the floor of the music store, listening to music that demanded I stop and devote my full attention to what I was hearing (the other customers - well they were NOT impressed - whatever).

This time the situation was not so dramatic. I had the television on and "I&L&Y" came on. It was about 4:00 am and I had just gotten my first cup of coffee for the day. Once again, I stopped - jaw dropped - coffee forgotten - and could not move until the song was over. I then turned the television off because there was nothing else that could compete. I did not want to hear anything else that would compete with the memory of the music.

Lyrics that can not be ignored; melody that speaks while framing the words; harmonies that bring tears to one's eyes. (And I swear there was a Hammond B-3 in there!)

I have become a fan for life.

Thank you.

lakf53