Something for the weekend: Seth Avett “Laughing River”

By Martinde - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64117970

That’s it for another wet and windy week from us dear reader and we leave you with a new song from a new album from one half of the Avett Brothers, Seth Avett. Avett once made an album of Elliott Smith songs, and on new album ‘Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown’, he once again pays tribute to another of his heroes in the form of folk musician Greg Brown. “This is a man who put forty records out because he had to,” Avett says. “He made his own record label. He played the coffee shops, the bars, the little theaters. He built it. He’s a world-class artist who did it all under the radar, which is just mind-blowing to me.” Over the years Brown’s songs have also been performed and recorded by Joan Baez, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Carlos Santana, Ani DiFranco, Gillian Welch and Mary Chapin Carpenter among others, and if nothing else. Avett’s interpretations make you want to explore Brown’s back catalogue of the human condition in more depth. Until Monday, have a good one.

About Mark Whitfield 2055 Articles
Editor of Americana UK website, the UK's leading home for americana news and reviews since 2001 (when life was simpler, at least for the first 253 days)
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments