The Avett Brothers

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The Avett Brothers
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Emotionalism
  US 134 06/02/2007 (2 weeks)
The Second Gleam (EP)
  US 82 08/09/2008 (3 weeks)
I and Love and You
  UK 72 05/08/2010 (1 week)
  US 16 
gold
gold
10/17/2009 (28 weeks)
Live, Volume 3
  US 51 23/10/2010 (5 weeks)
The Gleam
  US 149 02/19/2011 (1 week)
The Carpenter
  US 4th 09/29/2012 (20 weeks)
Magpie and the Dandelion
  US 5 11/02/2013 (11 weeks)
True sadness
  US 3 07/16/2016 (8 weeks)
Closer Than Together
  US 28 October 19, 2019 (1 week)

The Avett Brothers are an American folk rock band from Concord , North Carolina .

Career

The brothers Scott and Seth Avett were initially members of the grunge band Nemo , which was based in Greenville . In addition, they founded a side project with band guitarist John Twomey and performed as Nemo Downstairs and The Back Porch Project . In 2000 they finally released an EP of the same name as The Avett Brothers . They continued under this name even after Nemo broke up, with Twomey soon being replaced by bassist Bob Crawford. With this line-up, their first album Country Was was released in 2002 .

In the following years the trio released the albums A Carolina Jubilee (2003), Mignonette (2004) and Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions (2006), a live album and the EP Gleam (2006). The three musicians were also involved in other projects: Crawford with New Jersey Transient , Seth Avett solo under the name Darling and the brothers together live as Oh What a Nightmare .

The band achieved their breakthrough in 2007 with the album Emotionalism , with which they entered the US charts for the first time. This was followed by a record deal with the major label Sony BMG / Columbia , which released I and Love and You in autumn 2009 . The record was produced by Rick Rubin , with whom the band members are now friends and who also appeared again as producer on the following records. I and Love and You became a success: It stayed at number one on the folk charts for three weeks and also made it into the top 20 of the Billboard 200 charts. The two following records The Carpenter (2012) and Magpie and the Dandelion (2013) followed on from this success and reached number four and number five respectively on the US charts.

At the beginning of March 2013 the band was on a European tour and performed in Zurich, Cologne and Munich, among others.

Band members

  • Scott Avett (vocals, banjo)
  • Seth Avett (vocals, guitar)
  • Bob Crawford (vocals, bassist)
  • Joe Kwon ( singing saw , cello, backing vocals)
  • Mike Marsh (drums)
  • Paul DeFiglia (piano, organ)
  • Tania Elizabeth (violin)

Discography

Albums

  • Country Was (2002)
  • A Carolina Jubilee (2003)
  • Mignonette (2004)
  • Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions (2006)
  • Emotionalism (2007)
  • I and Love and You (2009)
  • The Carpenter (2012)
  • Magpie and the Dandelion (2013)
  • True Sadness (2016)
  • Closer Than Together (2019)

Live albums

  • Live at the Double Door Inn (2002)
  • Live, Vol. 2 (2005)
  • Live, Volume 3 (2010)
  • Live, Vol. Four (2015)

EPs

  • The Avett Brothers (2000)
  • The Gleam (2006)
  • The Second Gleam (2008)

Music videos

year Video Director
2002 November Blue
2007 Paranoia in B-flat major
2008 Murder in the City
2009 I and Love and You
2009 Slight Figure of Speech Jody Hill
2010 Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise
2012 Live and Die
2013 February Seven Danny Clinch
2013 Another is waiting Scott Avett
2014 Morning song Michael Bonfiglio

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
  3. ↑ a b Interview with The Avett Brothers: “Roots music is in our blood” ( Memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), SZ-Magazin March 13, 2013
  4. ↑ Miss Progress wears a black dress in FAZ from December 13, 2013, page 28

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