I listen to this every day as background music/noise while me and my daughter play and do our daily routine. Can’t not smile listening to this recording of laundry room.
My best friend passed away in 2021, we loved the avett brothers. I just wish I could sing along with him one more time, but tonight I'll sing loud enough for the both of us. R.i.p Brandon
They reach your heart because your heart is not cold nor dead. If it was, you wouldn’t receive their music they way you do, it wouldn’t touch you the way it does. Just sayin’.
“‘The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’
+HippieLady420 This is my favorite performance as well! It's not as technically perfect as the Cardinal sessions, but the emotion here is so raw and beautiful. When Seth starts harmonizing I get goosebumps.
I swear Seth channels the divine when he plays. There is nothing greater than this band's music and their live performances. The world is better because of The Avett Brothers!
The Avett Brothers' music has changed my life! I know that's a huge statement to make, but they are the first band in a long time that actually has "spoken" to me. From, Mignonette to Emotionalism to Four Thieves Gone to I and Love and You. These guys speak from their hearts and you can really hear it in their music! I love The Avett Brothers!
Okay, so I am 71 years old, remember Frank Sinatra in the 1950s, Perry Como, Patti Paige, then was there when Elvis burst on the scene, then Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and then the Beatles, then Janis Joplin, etc, etc, etc. But I have to tell you, I haven't heard much better than what these guys are doing! This is just fine stuff. All three songs are great. This is music to my ears, for sure, with excellent music and excellent lyrics as a big bonus. Hope these guys are around for a long time.
I've been listening to this video for about 4 years now. And I still find Laundry Room so impactful that it seems few songs can come close to it, I only wish it went on for longer. They really knocked it out of the park on this session!
In October 2019 I met a man. We spent 3 years trying to make it work. It didn’t. But he introduced me to the Avett Brothers and I will always love him just for that. What a gift these guys are.
I love they just kill that first song and as soon as they're done they act like they don't know where they are. You have to love someone that pours that much energy and love into something they do, but at the same time seem so genuinely humble about it.
When they were teenagers, the Avett Bros played gospel songs with their dad at my church in Sacramento, CA. They have family in Sacramento area and would perform at church when in town. My girlfriend, now wife, and I were at the first free concert on the west coast at Chicken Park in Fair Oaks, I've still got the signed poster, finger pics, and broken string from that concert. Avett bros were the soundtrack of my highschool and college days. It has been amazing to follow their career from the start and see how far they've come.
Anytime I listen to the Laundry Room studio version I sing this version instead. Incredible how many harmonies these guys layer their songs with. True musicians
I remember the first time I heard the Avett Brothers. I drove straight to my best friends work called him out to my car and informed him that I had fallen in love. To his surprise my new love affair was a band. This romance has only grown with each new albulm and every concert attended. The Avett Brothers will always hold a place in my heart and soul!
They are amazingly gifted musicians. I have seen them perform live several times, and they are masters of their craft. Bravo. This Tiny Desk Concert never gets old. Sing on.. Avett Brothers!!!
I remember the first time I heard this sound booming from somewhere in the belly of Rowe Arts at UNCC.... enchanting as it was... I was actually breathless and respectful when during a fortunate midnight break from the computer lab I was standing in the lobby at just the right position to see these guys emerging, all unassuming, from a fluorescent lit side hallway.... I was in shock to realize they had been making those sounds. You ever see a couple and it’s so easy for them, it’s so natural, and they just are?... you feel happy they found each other.... It was like that when I saw the guys for that moment in the hallway... I just stared. We all nodded a hello. And I knew I had just witnessed something special.
Today I discovered the Avett brothers, life just got a bit sweeter. I'm a city girl from the midwest that lives in Asia and am married a hick from sticks. Feeling like I just found my roots? Weird, and charming or something. I and thanking JC for youtube right about now.
I love everything about this band. Luscious harmonies, improvisational instrument work, soaring melodies and the rockin outro to Laundry Room. COVID watching in Hawaii 9/6/20 😷🤙🏼
You can stop with the Covid nonsense, clown. When did you start listening to them, right before you posted that nonsense? They've been around for years and years.
I like to come back here every month or so just to see Scott playing that guitar tucked under his arm without a strap on Bella Donna. Five years later he's still the coolest man around.
The artistry, the love, the kindness and a certain truthfulness is always so apparent in their lyrics and their music. "No Hard Feelings" will hopefully be played at any service I might have. They broached the subject that we all have to confront in our own way, in a masterful way.
My son ended his life 10/12/21 to free himself of a lifetime struggle with drugs. He was 34. I came across this band tonight and listened to No hard feelings and I cried my eyes out. It made me remember he’s at peace with no hard feelings for anyone who let him down in any way and that I have some hard feelings towards my ex that I need to let go of. Their music is the best thing I’ve come across in a long time.
One for the ages - an NPR Tiny Desk Masterpiece - you will not find the Avett Brothers in this form anywhere else - raw - harmonizing - tuning in tune - Outstanding!
I say their best version, maybe not technically, but there is a live version from a concert in 2011. Scott should be acknowledged for the way he plays the banjo, always, but in that performance in particular
I have contributed exactly 10k of these views. Remember watching this video in college and always come back. If any of my friends haven't heard of The Avett Brothers before, I put this on, just to give them a taste. I'll never stop returning to this tiny desk concert as a comfort.
Okay so, I was on this random "RUclips Video Watching Marathon" and somehow found myself watching this channel... I'm gonna be here a while. So awesome!!
Just listened to this "concert" again, and now I am thinking these guys are the best lyricists out there right now. Their music is also fine quality. I expect to hear these guys a lot more across the country. Just great stuff. Thanks NPR, for this excellent programming.
I know what you mean. Such energy, and passion. I loop the audio from this youtube when I'm on road trips or flying. I also think this short video is the best Avett Bro's album.
I have loved this band since I found their track "if it's the beaches" which is one of my favorites! .... in me opinion, they are (a tad gritty, a smidge rough) both good qualities!, & create true honest wonderful music! Keep it up guys!!
Man, that was awesome! I’m an older guy, 63… These guys remind me of a fantastic band from the Ozarks, that I used to go to the concert cause I was from St. Louis… They remind me of : The Ozark Mountain Daredevils… so full of feeling, and such beautiful technique!
Honest... For me their music transcends and has the ability to take me on little trips... The lyrics, a rift, the mood of a song somehow helps to clarify some of my most beautiful memories. Usually while working with and surrounded by grounded realists doing what they can to either better themselves, the things that surround them, or do what they can to learn the truth of the past so they can do what they can to avoid it in the future or help one wronged by it. Typically in and under those circumstances, i.e. active war zones, extreme poverty, refugee camps, and/or even being around extreme excess and suddenly realizing you are helping to perpetuate it in some way... its in those moments I've found make the best time to escape and run as fast as you can and surround yourself with beauty and silence of our environment offer.s I need to escape to remain sane and effective and it is finding those extremes... beauty in the midst of the ugliness of the human condition that makes it so much more moving.. That music takes me to the Cacapon in the mountains of W.VA, or cooking over a fire using a spit made out of locally found twigs on the bank of the Neretva in Mostar, BiH, the peacefulness of the winding Snake River in that huge valley looking up at the Tetons in Wyoming. The music reminds me I am nothing and everything at the same time, I or we have learned so much and come so far in the past thirty or forty years in our understanding of each other and the universe. We have CERN and I have spent time in Nations that have set the perfect example for the rest of us to follow.... Do yourself a favor and stay in that utopia as long as you can don't turn on the TV as you will quickly be reminded of how far we have to go. Thanks Avett Brothers for reminding me of the beauty in the human spirit that has held on through the darkest of times.
Awesome comment! The music opens windows in my soul. Like there is not only hope but messengers with heart and vision are here to unburden us of all that takes the beauty, newness, and joy away from the beautiful life in front of us.
Saw a live show in SF,Ca. in October; Simply Magical! Not to be missed! Four of us in our group, None of us knew the Avett Bros.(came for the opener, excellent, also!) Will see again, don't know how many instrument strings these artists broke during show, someone would hand them another, and they kept on going . . . Wow!!
Watching in 2022, seen a dozens shows, but the chemistry between Scott and Seth still makes me tear. They’re just so good at making each other better musically.
Does anyone recognize the vital role of that cello[?]? It saved them from becoming just another band. Also, the two voices of the brothers is just stupendous. I love the band and put them right up there with the Head and the Heart.
This was amazing. I had forgotten a bit about The Avett Brothers. Became a big fan many years ago, glad to have been reunited with their immense talent tonight 🙏
They are amazing live. I always recommend their shows because they just have a whole vibe and feeling to them and they play and sing so beautifully. I've been a fan for years and will always love them!
All these comments about tuning. One thing that makes the Avetts special is that they don't care about being perfect, they don't want to be perfect. They want to be sincere, sing songs from the heart with honesty and real emotion that their audience can connect with. It takes a special kind of musician to be able to pull that off, but the Avetts do it better than anyone. All their mistakes show how human they are. They don't want to pretend to be better than anyone else.
I would love to, Ginger! I am quite old but love the concerts live. I attended the Head and the Heart Concert in Lansing, Michigan, the oldest person in the crowd. The staff were kind enough to sneak in a stool for me to sit on, as I would not have be able to stand as long as the crowd did. My friend and I enjoyed the concert a whole bunch.
Young Avett Bros. is my favorite Avett Bros. Elder, wiser, and married Avett Bros. still write well thought lyrics and all. I just really relate with the Avett Bros. of young when they were out there breaking hearts, being overly romantic and learning the hard way from they their mistakes only a young man could make. I went through my teens and early 20's with the Avett from years ago. Still go back and learn things about my self from their songs.
"Laundry Room" Don't push me out, Just a little longer Stall your mother, Disregard your father's words. Close the laundry door, Tiptoe across the floor Keep your clothes on, I got all that I can take Teach me how to use The love that people say you made Stop your parents' car I just saw a shooting star We can wish upon it But we wont share the wish we made But I cant keep no secrets, I wish that you would always stay Last night I dreamt the whole night long I woke with a head full of songs I spent the whole day I wrote 'em down, but its a shame Tonight I'll burn the lyrics, 'Cause every chorus was your name Break this tired old routine And this time don't make me leave I am a breathing time machine, I'll take you all for a ride
There's a version they play with the lyrics changed to 'stop your sisters car' that I now include when I play this song. It always reminds me of the girls I had a a crush on that crushed right back when I was a teen in Northern Ontario.
I don't understand. I know who Mandela is but why the Mandela effect. Too me the song captures a place and time I experience and instead of parents driving us around we had our own cars. I was driving at 13 not because I was a a delinquent but we just figured it out.
These guys need to come back for another Tiny Desk Concert. HD technology now exists!
Seriously.. forget their 1 performance per artist rule
@@jonw8697 Raphael Saadiq has been twice now. These guys should, too!
It existed well before 2009... just don’t tell RUclips 😆
VR technology new exists! We can feel like we're sitting in that office next to them!
Nah. Leave well enough alone, and let their Tiny Desk exist in the moment it happened. That's the moment it was meant to happen.
anyone else come back and listen to this every once in a while and then become completely re-obsessed with them or is that just me :’)
Same. I was looking at possible Red Rocks concert dates, saw their name and instantly thought of this video.
@@roniszR I am so ready for live music again I find myself searching artists and thinking , well a 6 hour drive isnt that bad
why sure it's like vitamins or asprin you just got have some every once in awhile
Yes, Re-obsessed!
Like every day
anyone still watching in 2021? this will carry me through the year
Constantly. Like once a week if not twice
Just saw this for the first time tonight. Awesome!!
Me
Dude. Totally. This song just gets me .
I listen to this every day as background music/noise while me and my daughter play and do our daily routine. Can’t not smile listening to this recording of laundry room.
My best friend passed away in 2021, we loved the avett brothers. I just wish I could sing along with him one more time, but tonight I'll sing loud enough for the both of us.
R.i.p Brandon
I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing. RIP Brandon!
The Avetts make me cry regularly because they somehow reach my cold, dead heart. I can't explain that.
They reach your heart because your heart is not cold nor dead. If it was, you wouldn’t receive their music they way you do, it wouldn’t touch you the way it does. Just sayin’.
True, true, that!
Same.
I’ve seen them live so much and it never gets old
Makes me want to sit in the mountains sipping whisky
We are breathing time machines!
More than six years later, I still get goosebumps every time about half way through Laundry Room.
+davidkzoo Hell yea. Much better than the CD version. Man, what happened to them...
+Tim Bell I love me some Avett Brothers, but man did they lose their way sometime around 2011....oh yeah, it was that Grammy's performance.
Oh, yea. When I talk about the Avett Brothers, I don't even consider anything done past the good half of I and Love and You
+Tim Bell Speaking of...hearing "Kick Drum Heart" on the show Parenthood was also a foreboding precursor of what was to come.
Amen to that, man... big time goose bumps at the 2:20ish mark when they start to get after it !
The Avett Brothers are one of the best things about life
Almost 2023! They were my great discovery of 2022 at age 63!
same for me in 2022 at age 40 something.
“‘The Lord bless you
and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
This is the best version of Laundry Room right here.. Amazing! So much passion. I am in love..
+HippieLady420 The Cardinal version is my personal favorite
Oh, I don't know about that lol.. this they have such passion it's unbelievable but I do love the Cardinal version as well! :P
That guitar is out of tune though and it is driving me nuts! The cardinal version is better for sure.
+Kyler Coleman thank you for pointing that out it's driving me nuts
+HippieLady420 This is my favorite performance as well! It's not as technically perfect as the Cardinal sessions, but the emotion here is so raw and beautiful. When Seth starts harmonizing I get goosebumps.
MARCH 2022 AND I'M STILL LOOPING THIS MASTERPIECE EVERYDAY!
Same!
December 2022 ❤
2024 and still obsessed
Same … here in December 2024.
Still the single greatest Tiny Desk performance ever...
Still here in Jan 2021, I watch this over and over again. Yes to inviting them back!
I swear Seth channels the divine when he plays. There is nothing greater than this band's music and their live performances. The world is better because of The Avett Brothers!
Anyone else listened to this a thousand times? It still moves, years after first hearing it. Amazing.
Nick Broad yes I do. At least a few times a year. This is how I first found them. ❤️
Just listened again after a few years. One of the greatest little moments in music history. Yes, it is.
Me mate
Beautiful
The Avett Brothers' music has changed my life! I know that's a huge statement to make, but they are the first band in a long time that actually has "spoken" to me. From, Mignonette to Emotionalism to Four Thieves Gone to I and Love and You. These guys speak from their hearts and you can really hear it in their music! I love The Avett Brothers!
I would love for them to cut more albums like those. I completely resonate with your comment.
Okay, so I am 71 years old, remember Frank Sinatra in the 1950s, Perry Como, Patti Paige, then was there when Elvis burst on the scene, then Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and then the Beatles, then Janis Joplin, etc, etc, etc. But I have to tell you, I haven't heard much better than what these guys are doing! This is just fine stuff. All three songs are great. This is music to my ears, for sure, with excellent music and excellent lyrics as a big bonus. Hope these guys are around for a long time.
❤
Well said Victor. Great to hear a thought from someone that has heard a few good ones. Take care buddy.
These guys are excellent. Have you listened to Jack White?
Check out Billy Strings
@@betaBoomer he s 79 years now,i don t think it s alive 🙂
I've been listening to this video for about 4 years now. And I still find Laundry Room so impactful that it seems few songs can come close to it, I only wish it went on for longer. They really knocked it out of the park on this session!
Sublimelyamazinglygood.
In October 2019 I met a man. We spent 3 years trying to make it work. It didn’t. But he introduced me to the Avett Brothers and I will always love him just for that. What a gift these guys are.
12 yrs after being introduced to the avett Brothers, I still like them better live than in a studio..... with that being said, get them back on here!
I love they just kill that first song and as soon as they're done they act like they don't know where they are. You have to love someone that pours that much energy and love into something they do, but at the same time seem so genuinely humble about it.
Totally agree....AND - amazing that they can put so much energy and emotion into songs that they have probably performed hundreds of times.
Any else watching in 2024 ?
No
i hope your children grow up Fatherless
Here
Was this really 14 years ago?!
Yessir
It's been a decade, bring them back!
When they were teenagers, the Avett Bros played gospel songs with their dad at my church in Sacramento, CA. They have family in Sacramento area and would perform at church when in town. My girlfriend, now wife, and I were at the first free concert on the west coast at Chicken Park in Fair Oaks, I've still got the signed poster, finger pics, and broken string from that concert. Avett bros were the soundtrack of my highschool and college days. It has been amazing to follow their career from the start and see how far they've come.
I can say this in full confidence, I will always come back to watch this. Perfection.
Anytime I listen to the Laundry Room studio version I sing this version instead. Incredible how many harmonies these guys layer their songs with. True musicians
I stumbled upon this band a couple of weeks ago, I can't get enough, it's like they are singing to my soul. They seem like really good guys too.
Welcome
I remember the first time I heard the Avett Brothers. I drove straight to my best friends work called him out to my car and informed him that I had fallen in love. To his surprise my new love affair was a band. This romance has only grown with each new albulm and every concert attended. The Avett Brothers will always hold a place in my heart and soul!
just curious, have you heard Music From Big Pink?
John McLean
I've listened to Avett Brothers repeatedly in the last month after going through an obsession with The Band.
John McLean SOme people don't know what a good BAND is. Levon did
Still watching in 2023. Looking forward to seeing Swept Away in D.C. later this month!
I first saw these guys at Springfest in Florida in like 2004. Instantly blown away. There's really nothing else like them.
"Things change and get strange with the movement of time it's happening right now to you." Beautiful and oh so true.
They are amazingly gifted musicians. I have seen them perform live several times, and they are masters of their craft. Bravo. This Tiny Desk Concert never gets old.
Sing on.. Avett Brothers!!!
I remember the first time I heard this sound booming from somewhere in the belly of Rowe Arts at UNCC.... enchanting as it was... I was actually breathless and respectful when during a fortunate midnight break from the computer lab I was standing in the lobby at just the right position to see these guys emerging, all unassuming, from a fluorescent lit side hallway.... I was in shock to realize they had been making those sounds. You ever see a couple and it’s so easy for them, it’s so natural, and they just are?... you feel happy they found each other.... It was like that when I saw the guys for that moment in the hallway... I just stared. We all nodded a hello. And I knew I had just witnessed something special.
Today I discovered the Avett brothers, life just got a bit sweeter. I'm a city girl from the midwest that lives in Asia and am married a hick from sticks. Feeling like I just found my roots? Weird, and charming or something. I and thanking JC for youtube right about now.
I love everything about this band. Luscious harmonies, improvisational instrument work, soaring melodies and the rockin outro to Laundry Room. COVID watching in Hawaii 9/6/20 😷🤙🏼
Covid watching Rhode Island 02/10/21
You can stop with the Covid nonsense, clown. When did you start listening to them, right before you posted that nonsense? They've been around for years and years.
I like to come back here every month or so just to see Scott playing that guitar tucked under his arm without a strap on Bella Donna. Five years later he's still the coolest man around.
The artistry, the love, the kindness and a certain truthfulness is always so apparent in their lyrics and their music. "No Hard Feelings" will hopefully be played at any service I might have. They broached the subject that we all have to confront in our own way, in a masterful way.
My son ended his life 10/12/21 to free himself of a lifetime struggle with drugs. He was 34. I came across this band tonight and listened to No hard feelings and I cried my eyes out. It made me remember he’s at peace with no hard feelings for anyone who let him down in any way and that I have some hard feelings towards my ex that I need to let go of. Their music is the best thing I’ve come across in a long time.
I have listened to this constantly for the better part of 3 months. Pure music from my home state :D
3 years 😕 it's a curse
+Ray Cuban a curse? I was thinking a blessing...
One for the ages - an NPR Tiny Desk Masterpiece - you will not find the Avett Brothers in this form anywhere else - raw - harmonizing - tuning in tune - Outstanding!
This is the best 3 song concert I have ever witnessed .
This version of Laundry Room is incandescent. I love it so so so so so much.
I say their best version, maybe not technically, but there is a live version from a concert in 2011. Scott should be acknowledged for the way he plays the banjo, always, but in that performance in particular
So much passion it is amazing. No mics needed, no amps needed just their beautiful voices and beautiful instruments. I am in love with this set.
Wtf they're literal gods. That was one of the coolest live recordings ever.
William Rehbock they are stunningly good live! 😁
Just discovered these guys, love them & I'm almost 63! Amazing............they are all I want to watch on youtube for 2 weeks straight!!!!
I have contributed exactly 10k of these views. Remember watching this video in college and always come back. If any of my friends haven't heard of The Avett Brothers before, I put this on, just to give them a taste. I'll never stop returning to this tiny desk concert as a comfort.
0:26 - Laundry Room
7:25 - Down With The Shine
12:17 - Bella Donna
Thank you
@@andyessma5318 thank u!!!
These boys are just
Beautiful. The sound and words they put together is just perfect... this is one of the sounds of life for me xx
This has always been one of my favorite videos. Who cares what's outta tune. It's what's coming out of their mouths that's so perfect.
snboring Where does their music usually come out of?
True true as the lyrics well said
Obviously their Hearts bebe...
Oct2023, Still makes me so happy!
I remember finding this back in 2008/2009 and I still cry when I watch it. You guys and amazing ✌️
cant believe this was 7 years ago, so much since then!
just one of the all time best live bands....my first concert when i was 13, now will be seeing them for the 6th time next year!
Okay so, I was on this random "RUclips Video Watching Marathon" and somehow found myself watching this channel... I'm gonna be here a while. So awesome!!
10 years later and I still love this concert. Absolute Avett, Absolute beauty
Just listened to this "concert" again, and now I am thinking these guys are the best lyricists out there right now. Their music is also fine quality. I expect to hear these guys a lot more across the country. Just great stuff. Thanks NPR, for this excellent programming.
This clip never gets old- amazing group. Looking forward to seeing them this weekend at Merlefest
I watch this literally at least 3 times a day...Hasn't gotten old.
I know what you mean. Such energy, and passion. I loop the audio from this youtube when I'm on road trips or flying. I also think this short video is the best Avett Bro's album.
People still over use the word "literally" in 2020 for some reason.
Thanks NPR! ive discovered some great new music through your tiny desk concerts. Americana and folk is where its at....
Its 2025…just saw them on ACL….blew me away. Their music gives me joy ❤❤❤….i can’t stop smiling when i listen to them 😊
Thanks to the RUclips algorithmn I found the Avett Brothers (and NPR). Truly great music from the heart.
I have loved this band since I found their track "if it's the beaches" which is one of my favorites!
.... in me opinion, they are (a tad gritty, a smidge rough) both good qualities!, & create true honest wonderful music! Keep it up guys!!
Bring them back!
you don't often hear vocals more powerful than all of the instruments combined. These guys are amazing
I literally called them weekend NPR music in my head a few videos ago and now that thought came to fruition.
I always find myself back to this performance.
Yep. Still one of the greatest acts out there. Timeless.
Anyone still listening in 2019?
This is so awesome
Rhiun as good as it ever was :)
Right here
Yes!
I'm listening!! Cheers from Milwaukee I love you all!
can't get enuf of them!!!
Man, this sends chills down my spine. This is the best version of Laundry Room that I have heard, including the original recording
Man, that was awesome!
I’m an older guy, 63… These guys remind me of a fantastic band from the Ozarks, that I used to go to the concert cause I was from St. Louis… They remind me of : The Ozark Mountain Daredevils… so full of feeling, and such beautiful technique!
They are -- as is commonly referred to -- in their *zone.* I am so glad to share the atmosphere. Blessed. Truly.
Honest... For me their music transcends and has the ability to take me on little trips... The lyrics, a rift, the mood of a song somehow helps to clarify some of my most beautiful memories. Usually while working with and surrounded by grounded realists doing what they can to either better themselves, the things that surround them, or do what they can to learn the truth of the past so they can do what they can to avoid it in the future or help one wronged by it.
Typically in and under those circumstances, i.e. active war zones, extreme poverty, refugee camps, and/or even being around extreme excess and suddenly realizing you are helping to perpetuate it in some way... its in those moments I've found make the best time to escape and run as fast as you can and surround yourself with beauty and silence of our environment offer.s I need to escape to remain sane and effective and it is finding those extremes... beauty in the midst of the ugliness of the human condition that makes it so much more moving..
That music takes me to the Cacapon in the mountains of W.VA, or cooking over a fire using a spit made out of locally found twigs on the bank of the Neretva in Mostar, BiH, the peacefulness of the winding Snake River in that huge valley looking up at the Tetons in Wyoming.
The music reminds me I am nothing and everything at the same time, I or we have learned so much and come so far in the past thirty or forty years in our understanding of each other and the universe. We have CERN and I have spent time in Nations that have set the perfect example for the rest of us to follow....
Do yourself a favor and stay in that utopia as long as you can don't turn on the TV as you will quickly be reminded of how far we have to go.
Thanks Avett Brothers for reminding me of the beauty in the human spirit that has held on through the darkest of times.
You're fucking RE-.....*wait for it*....TARDED!!!!!!!
Awesome comment! The music opens windows in my soul. Like there is not only hope but messengers with heart and vision are here to unburden us of all that takes the beauty, newness, and joy away from the beautiful life in front of us.
frank klein 9
Saw a live show in SF,Ca. in October; Simply Magical! Not to be missed! Four of us in our group, None of us knew the Avett Bros.(came for the opener, excellent, also!) Will see again, don't know how many instrument strings these artists broke during show, someone would hand them another, and they kept on going . . . Wow!!
I get more impressed with Seth Avett every time I hear him.
I fell like these are the type of guys who would have people listen to their music once and forever be faithful listeners. They're wonderful
Best version of laundry room. 9 years later and I'm still coming back to this video.
I love their double-bassist so much!
10 years
2 months
18 Days
Still one of the best live performances ever
amen
So so so so so thankful for this performance, without it I would have never discovered my favorite band
Watching in 2022, seen a dozens shows, but the chemistry between Scott and Seth still makes me tear. They’re just so good at making each other better musically.
still love them after all these years!
Best musicians from America working today. Period.
Genetics are amazing. No one harmonizes like siblings. Another gift from our creator(s?).
Does anyone recognize the vital role of that cello[?]? It saved them from becoming just another band. Also, the two voices of the brothers is just stupendous. I love the band and put them right up there with the Head and the Heart.
This was amazing. I had forgotten a bit about The Avett Brothers. Became a big fan many years ago, glad to have been reunited with their immense talent tonight 🙏
Me too Jessi!!🎸🎻
Props to NPR Tiny Desk!
Their production quality has come a long way since 2009.
Best version of "Down with the Shine" I've ever heard.
This was one of the first tiny desk concerts, and now it's the oldest and one of the most watched. Epic.
Sheeesh this version of laundry room takes me somewhere else. Raw talent
Also, the cello adds a wonderfully rich sound that makes them even better.
They are amazing live. I always recommend their shows because they just have a whole vibe and feeling to them and they play and sing so beautifully. I've been a fan for years and will always love them!
All these comments about tuning. One thing that makes the Avetts special is that they don't care about being perfect, they don't want to be perfect. They want to be sincere, sing songs from the heart with honesty and real emotion that their audience can connect with. It takes a special kind of musician to be able to pull that off, but the Avetts do it better than anyone. All their mistakes show how human they are. They don't want to pretend to be better than anyone else.
right thats why they hired hit maker producer rick rubin to produce the new album cause they don't care
There so into the music, that's what so important about what they're doing :)
I love Tiny Desk.
I would love to, Ginger! I am quite old but love the concerts live. I attended the Head and the Heart Concert in Lansing, Michigan, the oldest person in the crowd. The staff were kind enough to sneak in a stool for me to sit on, as I would not have be able to stand as long as the crowd did. My friend and I enjoyed the concert a whole bunch.
The thing that the "tiny desk" never fails to offer is some of the best versions of artists tunes! Pulls the best outta' performer! Thank you NPR!
"Tonight I'll burn the lyrics, 'cause every chorus was your name."
Every 17yo thinks he wrote this line. Avett Brothers were just the first to publish it
Young Avett Bros. is my favorite Avett Bros. Elder, wiser, and married Avett Bros. still write well thought lyrics and all. I just really relate with the Avett Bros. of young when they were out there breaking hearts, being overly romantic and learning the hard way from they their mistakes only a young man could make. I went through my teens and early 20's with the Avett from years ago. Still go back and learn things about my self from their songs.
"Laundry Room"
Don't push me out,
Just a little longer
Stall your mother,
Disregard your father's words.
Close the laundry door,
Tiptoe across the floor
Keep your clothes on,
I got all that I can take
Teach me how to use
The love that people say you made
Stop your parents' car
I just saw a shooting star
We can wish upon it
But we wont share the wish we made
But I cant keep no secrets,
I wish that you would always stay
Last night I dreamt the whole night long
I woke with a head full of songs
I spent the whole day
I wrote 'em down, but its a shame
Tonight I'll burn the lyrics,
'Cause every chorus was your name
Break this tired old routine
And this time don't make me leave
I am a breathing time machine,
I'll take you all for a ride
There's a version they play with the lyrics changed to 'stop your sisters car' that I now include when I play this song. It always reminds me of the girls I had a a crush on that crushed right back when I was a teen in Northern Ontario.
Frank Wilk. The mandella effect
I don't understand. I know who Mandela is but why the Mandela effect. Too me the song captures a place and time I experience and instead of parents driving us around we had our own cars. I was driving at 13 not because I was a a delinquent but we just figured it out.
How the Bleep have I not seen this until 2022?!?!? Laundry room might be my absolute favorite.
2022 checking in here. This music ages so well.