{"id":923,"date":"2010-10-01T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/10\/the-avett-brothers-country-roots.html"},"modified":"2010-10-01T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:38:00","slug":"the-avett-brothers-country-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/10\/the-avett-brothers-country-roots.html","title":{"rendered":"The Avett Brothers&#8217; Country Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>SCOTT Avett plays his banjo like Will Sergeant from Echo and the Bunnymen played guitar. That&#8217;s what the Avett Bros. manager thought the first time he saw this North Carolina band, which is both deeply rooted in Americana and on its own trip.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TKYN23mOUnI\/AAAAAAAAA_c\/bV-31xR7KpA\/s1600\/avetts.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TKYN23mOUnI\/AAAAAAAAA_c\/bV-31xR7KpA\/s320\/avetts.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><span>ALT-COUNTRY heroes The Avett Bros. are in town tonight, Oct. 1, at the Nokia Theater. I spoke to Scott and manager Rolph Ramseur for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-avett-bros-20101001,0,6946941.story\"><span>this<\/span><\/a><span> story in today&#8217;s LATimes.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>I was a bit late coming to these guys, but they remind me in some ways of The Band in their attempt to connect rock with old-time music. Scott was as convincingly sincere and humble as any musician I&#8217;ve spoken to. (I can &#8212; poorly &#8212; play a few of their songs on guitar, like &#8220;Murder in the City&#8221; and &#8220;Will You Return&#8221;.)<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Here he told me how he discovered the banjo, which came later than you&#8217;d think:<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span><span>&#8220;We were just totally into hard rock then \u2014 we were in a skate-punk scene,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I wanted something ironic. And when I started playing street corners, I could hear this thing just project. We went all over the country, all the way to San Francisco and Seattle, and that banjo just projects down the street!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT Avett plays his banjo like Will Sergeant from Echo and the Bunnymen played guitar. That&#8217;s what the Avett Bros. manager thought the first time he saw this North Carolina band, which is both deeply rooted in Americana and on its own trip.ALT-COUNTRY heroes The Avett Bros. are in town tonight, Oct. 1, at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alt-country","7":"category-country","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}