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We've cavorted with them through the fields of Manchester, caught them on the back steps of The Earl and counted them among the Best of What's Next. And on Friday, much of the Paste staff finally experienced The Everybodyfields live for the first time when the band dropped by for an afternoon performance in our studio.

Photos taken by Ashley Melzer at Sharkori HIlls 2008

I was half-passed out on a couch in Austin when the Everybodyfields played in my hometown two weeks ago, so I missed Sam Quinn and Jill Andrews' incredibly sweet cover of the Everly Brothers "All I Have to Do is Dream." The population of Texas should thank YouTube user billfive for taking this video. Had he not, I'd be trading all y'all and your tacos and barbecue for a time machine so I could zap back in time, battle I-75 up from Atlanta and crash at my parents' house to see it myself. (Watch out, I still might.)

Vague personal threats aside, if you liked the Everybodyfields' a capella cover of the Everly Brothers' "Let It Be Me," you will surely love this. You will also agree with me that Sam and Jill should start an all-Everlys cover band called the Everlybodyfields. Right, right?

Recently, Paste talked with the The Everybodyfields on the back stairs of The Earl in Atlanta. After our interview, we asked them to sing an a capella number for us.

Click above to listen to their a cappella cover of The Everly Brothers' "Let It Be Me."  If listen carefully, you can hear the crickets too...

Related Links:
Best of What's Next: The Everybodyfields
Band of the Week: The Everybodyfields
Album Review: Nothing Is Okay

On this episode of the Culture Club, Paste brings you the best of what's next, with performances from The Low Anthem, Janelle Monáe, The Everybodyfields, Slow Runner, and The Spring Standards!

[Above: White Rabbits]

Mugison
Hometown: Ísafjörður, Iceland
Album: Mugiboogie
Why He's Worth Watching: Mugison likely embodies the person Led Zeppelin envisioned when writing “Immigrant Song.” One moment, this man from the land of the ice and snow is sounding the hammer of the gods, alternating between an infernal howl (much like Robert Plant’s) and a guttural heavy-metal groan, the next, he’s crooning to twanging guitar over eerie strings. He’s a shape-shifter and a funnyman, and Mugiboogie builds on his four previous genre-transcending works.  
For Fans Of: Tom Waits, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Led Zeppelin
Acceptance Speech: “When I was 14 years old, I was voted the best-looking guy in school, but after the ceremony I found out that some of the girls in the school were running a campaign behind my back. The campaign was called ‘Vote the Freak.’ I also found out they did this to piss off the guy who’d won it three years in a row—they had some unfinished business with him. Is this something similar?”
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Apologies: I was unable to blog about Saturday at Bonnaroo because of Saturday at Bonnaroo. It's Sunday afternoon now, and with the festival still buzzing and thumping all around us (am currently at our tent in the Sonic Village, with a band called Harrybu McCage doing their thing on the stage next door) I'm just now getting around to processing everything from the past thirty-something hours.

Bonnaroo starts tonight! And I'm going! And I've never gone! And I'm pretty excited but also scared that I might pass out in the heat! Or get struck by lightning! Or just get really overwhelmed and curl up in a sweaty ball at the back of the Paste tent! I hope there's a falafel vendor! I love falafel! Oh my god! Bonnaroo! So excited!

As Ben Gibbard ponders the meaning of life in our May issue, Brian Howe explores the nature of mother through the song lyrics of rap stars, indie rockers and, uh, Glen Danzig. Though the most important conclusion I drew from the piece is that I am really glad Danzig is not my son, it also reinforced for me the notion that, much like armpits, everybody has a mom—and like armpits, some people’s moms stink. Like, really stink—Ghostface Killah’s mom beat him for peeing the bed! Harsh, Mama Killah!

Quite unlike armpits, though, mothers are the subject of a few great songs. Iron & Wine’s “Upward Over the Mountain” and Smog’s “I Feel Like The Mother Of The World” are two of my favorites among the ones Howe mentions. Of course, it’s not just men that have immortalized and/or vilified their mothers in song. Plenty of female musicians have raised a musical glass to the women they came from (and may or may not, one day, become). Though lacking in Oedipal awkwardness, these songs still pack a punch.

Avett Brothers’ new labelmates make it hurt so good

Having proclaimed God a moonshiner and channeled the sorrows of everyone from flooded-out farmers to Elvis on their first two LPs, this Johnson City, Tenn., duo has finally grazed upon some of its own old bones, rummaging through the dark closet of the South. Sam Quinn and Jill Andrews trade gorgeous, aching vocals that sear through a tapestry of plaintive fiddle and pedal steel, sucker-punching with lines like “you took the candy out of my mouth / and filled it up with really old Saltines” (on the sprawling post-love song “Everything Is Okay”) and “time will forget your name / and float away in a purple haze / the best you can hope for is to go in your sleep” (on the heady first track “Aeroplane”). Sometimes love don’t feel like it should, but who’s to say what’s right or wrong with sadness this divine?

Hometown: Johnson City, Tenn.
Fun Fact: everybodyfields founder Jill Andrews acquired a formal Bluegrass education at East Tennesee State University, where one can minor in the genre.
Why They're Worth Watching: Nothing is Okay is the mournful Appalachian band's Ramseur Records debut, and it ably displays the group's distinct and universally poignant compositions.
For Fans Of: The Avett Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Bill Monroe

Fundamentally, the everybodyfields' genesis was a meeting of musical souls at Methodist summer camp--a less melodramatic Dirty Dancing with heartfelt vocal duets in place of saucy lambadas. Nine years ago, kayak instructor Jill Andrews was going through first-day orientation when fellow counselor Sam Quinn spotted her singing over a Christian tape. "I thought, 'This is not what I signed up for at all,'" Quinn says. He had joined staff two years prior because of its hippie-friendly reputation. Acoustic guitars are foolproof bonding implements between campers, however, and the pair soon discovered the appealing harmony between his traditional high, lonesome sound and her clear, understated tones.

Tennessee alt.country group the everybodyfields will cause tears to drop into PBRs across the southeast this summer and fall while touring their honest, heartbreaking melodies. Friends and labelmates of fellow twang-enthusiasts the Avett Brothers, everybodyfields was founded by Sam Quinn and Jill Andrews, who met on the job nine years ago at summer camp.

The everybodyfields’ third full-length, Nothing Is Okay, hits shelves August 21 on Ramseur Records. On the album cover, above the soul-crushing title, is a rainbow (frown)? turned upside-down, leaked upon by a gloopy brown substance. Possible and likely incorrect interpretation: even if you grin and bear it, you’ll still get shit on -- a sentiment previously expressed by the central character from Wayne's World, whose abandonment leads him to desperately ask, "What the hell's going on? I lost my show, I lost my best friend, I lost my girl. I'm being shit on, that's all, shit on!"

Loss and loneliness are indeed subjects the everybodyfields lyricize most effectively. "Don’t turn around/don’t you smile/I closed the door on sunshine," they sing on "Don’t Turn Around." "Just wave goodbye/say you’re sorry." Damn! Good thing the music itself is gorgeous enough to induce a kind of bittersweet warmth.

Take yer hankies along on the following dates:

July:
12 - Knoxville, Tenn. @ WDVX Blue Plate Special
12 - Athens, Tenn. @ Black Box Theater @ The Arts Center
13 - Gatlinburg, Tenn. @ Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts
14 - Boone, N.C. @ Boone Saloon
18 - Charlottesville, Va. @ Gravity Lounge
19 - Vienna, Va. @ Jammin Java
20 - New York, N.Y. @ The Knitting Factory
21 - Saratoga Springs, N.Y. @ Parting Glass
23 - Philadelphia, Penn. @ Tin Angel
26 - Nashville, Tenn. @ 3rd & Lindsley
28 - Abingdon, Va. @ Virginia Highlands Festival
29 - Asheville, N.C. @ Bele Chere Festival

August:
3 - Pinehurst, N.C. @ First Friday in Southern Pines
15 - Chattanooga, Tenn. @ Rhythm & Brews
16 - Atlanta, Ga. @ The Earl
17 - Greenville, S.C. @ Gottrocks
21 - Nashville, Tenn. @ Grimey¹s
25 - Johnson City, Tenn. @ Down Home
30 - Blowing Rock, N.C. @ Canyons
31 - Knoxville, Tenn. @ World Grotto

September:
1 - Winston-Salem, N.C. @ The Garage
13 - Athens, Ga. @ Melting Point
14 - Bristol, Tenn. @ Rhythm & Roots Reunion
15 - Bristol, Tenn. @ Rhythm & Roots Reunion
19 - Charleston, S.C. @ Pour House
20 - Jacksonville, Fla. @ European St. Listening Room
20 - Lake Worth, Fla. @ Bamboo Room
29 - Roanoke, Va. @ 202 Market

Related links:
theeverybodyfields.com
everybodyfields MySpace
RamseurRecords.net

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