Avett Brothers at the Palace Theater 10/30/09
It’s taken me a while to mention it, but last Friday Sara and I went to Louisville to see the Avetts play the Palace Theater. I hadn’t been to the Palace since college when I saw Blues Traveler play there (Sheryl Crow opened for them, try and imagine a time when that would have happened…).
I was really curious to see the Avett’s play live post I And Love And You. All of their previous albums centered so strongly around the whole guitar/banjo/bass combo, I wondered how they’d perform songs that seem to have so much instrumentation.
The answer is that Scott and Seth would run around the stage switching instruments between song (and sometimes during songs) like madmen. The show was awesome (aside from the high quotient of douche bags in the audience) but I feel like my best Avett shows are probably behind me as I’ll probably never get to be the one of 100 people packed into a small club with them ever again - but that’s okay. The band deserves every bit of success they’re having.
