The Carpenter The Avett Brothers

• 1 The Once And Future Carpenter 04:51
• 2 Live And Die 04:31
• 3 Winter In My Heart 04:54
• 4 Pretty Girl From Michigan 02:47
• 5 I Never Knew You 02:56
• 6 February Seven 04:17
• 7 Through My Prayers 04:11
• 8 Down With The Shine 04:04
• 9 A Fathers First Spring 04:06
• 10 Geraldine 01:37
• 11 Paul Newman Vs. The Demons 04:42
• 12 Life 03:44
• Total Runtime 46:40

Info for The Carpenter

2012 album from the critically acclaimed North Carolina Folk-Pop-Rock band. Produced by Rick Rubin and recorded in North Carolina and Malibu, the record follows the group's 2009 breakthrough release and celebrated major label debut, I And Love And You. That album reached #16 on the Billboard Top 200 and received rave notices from press. Blending Bluegrass, Folk and Punk with a Rock 'n' RoII attitude, the quintet, led by brothers Seth and Scott Avett, continues to pen poignant and powerful songs on this new release. The Carpenter includes several of the group's signature harmony-driven acoustic ballads, but the brothers also get boisterous on tunes.

Scott Avett, vocals, banjo, kick drum
Seth Avett, vocals, guitar, high-hat
Bob Crawford, vocals, bass
Paul Defiglia, keyboard, organ
Joe Kwon, cello
Mike Marsh, drums

The Avett Brothers
If you put your ear to the street, you can hear the rumble of the world in motion; people going to and from work, to school, to the grocery store. You may even hear the whisper of their living rooms, their conversation, their complaints, and if you’re lucky, their laughter. If you’re almost anywhere in America , you’ll hear something different, something special, something you recognize but haven’t heard in a long time. It is the sound of a real celebration.

It is not New Year’s, and it is not a political convention. It is neither a prime time game-show, nor a music video countdown, bloated with fame and sponsorship. What you are hearing is the love for a music. It is the unbridled outcry of support for a song that sings to the heart, that dances with the soul. The jubilation is in the theaters, the bars, the music clubs, the festivals. The love is for a band.

The songs are honest: just chords with real voices singing real melodies. But, the heart and the energy with which they are sung, is really why people are talking, and why so many sing along.

They are a reality in a world of entertainment built with smoke and mirrors, and when they play, the common man can break the mirrors and blow the smoke away, so that all that’s left behind is the unwavering beauty of the songs. That’s the commotion, that’s the celebration, and wherever The Avett Brothers are tonight, that’s what you’ll find.

Booklet for The Carpenter