With baby in sling and boy in tow, we ventured this evening out to an in-store. For those of you not familiar with this musical resource, it's when a band plays a truncated set inside a record store for a small crowd. This usually occurs when they're in town for a bigger show. If the music is right, this can be great for small children, you know, if there's not too many. Well, really, if there's just mine. Heh. He even sang along and everyone thought it was so adorable.
So tonight it was The Avett Bros. . If you've not heard this band, hear them now. I insist. Really. Better yet, go see them. They will change your life, at least for a little while.
They play LB's 2nd favorite song (die die die) -- his first is The wayward wind by Tex Ritter, which is what I told Scott Avett, to which he replied yeah, i don't blame him, my favorite song is probably by tex ritter, too.
But outside of being the band that plays my 5 year old's favorite song, they are, perhaps, the very best band in the world. Yes. In. The. World. And I do not say this lightly. My other favorite musical talents includes the likes of Tom Waits and Blake Schwarzenbach so you get the idea. When I say the best, it's not the best of some junk.
It's only 3 guys. Two brothers and a bass player. But they fill a stage, a room, a soul. They love it so much, you can see it in everything they do, each word they sing and each note the play. They capture everything I feel, they capture everything I want to feel, they're just that. freaking. good. I gush. I leave from listening to them just a little bit more in love with my partner, my kids, the world. Totally happy. We drive home all 'aglow, all 'alight. Yet I feel this strange feeling in my stomach, this panicky pit, because I want to feel this good all the time and I get all itchy trying to hold on to it, this feeling. This good feeling.
I don't know how to explain it, I'm probably doing a poor job, sounding like a cheese-girl fan. Have you felt it? That feeling that makes you mill around a stage even after you know the band is long gone? Just mill around because you don't know what else to do, you don't want to let it go.
I told my partner all of this on the way home and could tell he felt similarly. The conversation went something like this --
Jacey: I don't want to stop feeling like this. I wish we could see them all the time, or you know, invite them to dinner or something...
Bill: Let's move to NC so we can be near them...
Jacey: Okay.
oh, and Seth Avett gave LB the show pic at the end of the set.
Posted by jacey at September 19, 2007 08:56 PMyes. i know. i'm so glad you love them like i do, i was worried when we first played them for you, but it's like, well, not to sound like a cheesed-out fangirl, but yeah, avetts=love.
Posted by: kathleen at September 19, 2007 10:06 PMI too am madly madly in love with the Avetts. I totally understand the happy feeling and not wanting to let go of their show. They are sooo into it! I love it. ah. eek!
Posted by: beth at September 20, 2007 08:48 AMIf you actually decide to move to NC,
come on over to one of our Knitting Groups...
we'd love to have you ;)
Off to listen, now.