Pictured: Brothers can be digusting little piggies sometimes.
The Southern-American all-family band is something of a story that I love. I always wanted to be little Johnny on the porch, playing guitar with Pa and brother Steve, while Ma sings in her red-checkered dress about all the shit we can’t afford since we spend all our time on the porch not working. We’re happy being sad though, and we ain’t got much else to sing about anyhow.
I think North Carolina’s Scott and Steve Avett have been happy that way too. I mean, I don’t know their financial situation, but they seem sad enough to me when they sing, and they’re not shy about it. The brothers have been playing music together since it was possible for them to do so, and their band The Avett Brothers just released an album that’ll make Ma and Pa proud. Emotionalism is a long, brave, 14 track journey through unconventional bluegrass territory. Scott plays the banjo, Seth plays the guitar, and their friend Bob Crawford plays the upright bass. They all sing, and they all have the same great, strong and bold, Carolina voice. The songs’ themes are simple enough. The boys have feelings. That’s it, they sing about how they feel. Sometimes it’s sad, sometimes it’s not as sad, but it always sort of borders on sad. There are two tracks named after pretty girls. The first is called Pretty Girl from Chile and the second is Pretty Girl from San Diego.
This is the album’s second track Shame. If lazy-ass Kyle, who runs this site, ever does anything, ever, I’ll post a cool YouTube video of The Avett Brothers on Conan. But he probably won’t.
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