Avett Brothers True Sadness (2 Lp's) 10/16/20 This is the Dead at

This is the Dead at their most improvisational while still retaining the Blues-Rock roots of the 'Pigpen' years

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unreserved in their beauty

Avett Brothers True Sadness (2 Lp's) 10/16/20 This is the Dead atThere's a melancholy to the title of the Avett Brothers' 2016 album True Sadness, but the album's tone doesn't mirror its name. Certainly, there's a bit of a sorrowful undercurrent, something that surfaces on "Divorce Separation Blues," but often there's a buoyancy to the music's spirit, a lightness that's evident even in the burnished bluegrass ballads, tunes where the harmonies and plucked strings combine into a sense of sweetness. Always throwbacks