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Tough Times with the Avetts
Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 21:55
So, I was inspired by someone posting the other day that Scott wrote as an autograph "Thanks for getting through it," in response to that person telling him his music helped him through some tough times. What has the Avetts' music gotten you through?
For me, its two things: I hate planes but I have to go on them 6-8 times a year, and they always seem to be turbulent! I just put on their music and it calms me down.
In the same way, I had surgery last year and although it was a supposedly minor procedure, I had a horrible reaction to the numbing agent and I thought I was going to die. My heart felt like the stuff had been injected into it and was beating so fast. I almost passed out but I had my iPod on, so I just started concentrating on the music and not panicking...I think I was singing out loud! Eventually, my heart returned to normal, but I credit the Avetts with helping me get through it!
How about y'all?
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My husband had been looking for a new job for the longest time, and it seemed like nothing was ever going to turn up for him. Our mantra was, "The day will come, the sun will shine, and we'll be fine." Well, his day came, and we are fine!
I found out about The Avett Brothers in early June of '08 and the last week of that same month I found out my parents (who have had a strong marriage for 30+ years) were having some serious problems in their marriage. My Dad is a preacher and we've always had a strong belief in marriage, I was 24 years old but it still hurt enormously to see my mom and dad and my brothers and sister hurting so real, so raw...One night I got on youtube and looked the band up (before I had ordered any of their albums)...I found two very important songs that night...Murder In The City and The Ballad of Love and Hate. I wept as I listened to the beauty of the songs. These boys knew the blessings of family and tough love. Thats why I'm on this board and follow these boys so faithfully. I was never one of these people who obsessed over bands and gave cheesy little stories on how complete strangers could win you over by just some silly songs. Until now. Their music isnt just for show and mere entertainment, they go into deeper waters and touch the soul. That night those two songs brought some healing to real wounds...and gave me some hope.
P.S. My parents fought hard for the family and have been doing amazing, making me a true believer that..."there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name."
wow...what a beautiful story, good to hear that your parents are working hard to keep the family together
Hope I don't get too personal with this, but a certain girl who I have never really dated but who has been my best friend in the entire world since high school recently decided to transfer out to California next semester to be closer to her mom. California is a very, very long way from North Carolina. I've been having a pretty difficult time dealing with it. But, I swear, every line, every word of Pretty Girl at the Airport explains my feelings at the moment - the way I feel about her, the way I feel about her leaving, the sense of love and loneliness. I feel like a sappy 16 year old girl writing this, but that song and these brothers are gonna get me through these next couple of months (just as they have for the last year of my life).
sorry to hear that
on another note, I'm class of 2011 too and I almost went to UNCCH, but ended up coming to Nashville. just thought it was a weird coincidence
I can't say I have such touching stories as lilybear, mariahlace or uncch2011, but i can say that the Avetts' songs make me feel more hopeful than anything for the future with their songs and sentiments of the past.
Cool hgevans. Idk about you, but I've found that this board is not very conducive at all to studying. If I fail all of my exams, I'm blaming The Avett Brothers
so true. I'm miserable right now, but I'll be done with finals in 2 days so then I can spend as much time chatting up avett fans as I'd like
i had a really bad break-up this time last year and "i would be sad" was pretty much my story word-for-word. i mean the line "my dad told me one day son, this girl will think of what she's done. and hurting you will be the first of many more regrets to come", my dad said that to me almost verbatim, and im pretty sure he has never heard an avett brothers song. although i had heard that song a million times before the break-up it never really hit me until then.
I'm with you gibsonb, my first love tore me in two with what he did back in August of 07 and I soon discovered TAB shortly after and their album Emotionalism. Almost the whole album fit perfectly with what I (we) were going through, so I ended up going to my first show on 10.10.07 in Nelsonville, OH, I ended up filming it and my X was actually there, the first time I had seen him since he had moved out. We did speak to each other, although I shouldn't have and at one point I told him, man these songs really seem to match up with what we are going through.
It's crazy how you find music just in the right time or during a certain point in your life. I love it and wouldn't know what to do without it! Now I'm an Avett Addict and can't get enough!
In an attempt to not get too personal...I found myself terribly broken-hearted this past October. It was the kind of sadness and pain that you could never wish on anyone else no matter what they had done and makes you want to crawl under a rock and hide from the world hoping it will go away, something beyond what words will ever be able to capture. I really knew what it was like to feel the need to drive out to the middle of nowhere, collapse, and scream at the moon, except that I'm more of the cry in bed until I fall asleep type.
Now, maybe I have this song all wrong, but the one I wanted to hear was "Souls Like The Wheels." To me it's about leaving behind pain with the loving, caring people around you to help. And it gave me hope for something better in the future if I could just push through each day. I listened to it over and over trying to make myself feel better, and I repeated the lyrics in my head to make harder parts of the day a little easier.
Well...I have something better now with the same person. I have a renewed appreciation for what we have, and I feel so "new love" excited about it all the time. Now the song I feel so close with is "Kick Drum Heart, " because it's so happy and exciting.
When my husband came home after 2 years in Iraq and found that I now listened to TAB almost exclusively, he was immediately drawn to The Ballad of Love & Hate. I could hardly listen to it because it was just too painful. Seth played it at my husband's request last year and he said that it helped wash away the grime of war.