Top Five Reasons...Plus 3, Minus 7, Times 2, Plus 8...Why I'm Nerdy Enough for the Avetts to Join an Actual Fan Board :

3. I'm down with beards in full bloom.

7. The Seth Dance. Seriously, Y'all. Can you listen without doing it? Try. Impossible.

4. The rawness of it all. Their pure, homespun energy.

6. Their extra little outcries, preacher-style, during a live set.

2. Scott plays the drum set like Animal from the Muppets.

1. I can actually feel their energy about to explode all over the place during a show.

8. Bob and Joe. Joe and Bob.

9. When packed into a TAB show, fans smell of neither pot nor patchouli.

5. How, according to my observations, a mood can transform from dim and lethargic to centered and optimistic, in the course of exactly two TAB songs.