Before last week, I'd only seen the Avett Brothers live in festival settings-- all rife with dust, sweat and unsuspecting patrons about to have their notions of the banjo's hokey limitations fully obliterated-- so maybe a certain trend I noticed Friday night in Athens is a long-standing, midsize-venue-specific one that I just never had the opportunity to witness before. Or maybe, like the Grit and the Polish Sausage Man and the Dawgs, it's just unique to that great little town. Either way, hanging in and around the Georgia Theatre
that evening was a notable number of young gentlemen dressed in such a
way that clearly implied their hopeful intent to be mistaken for one of
the brothers themselves-- ideally, one must assume, by a young,
indiscriminate and probably intoxicated Avett-lusting co-ed.
Continue reading Live Review: The Avett Brothers @ Georgia Theatre, 10/3/08.
