Avett Brothers True Sadness (2 Lp's) cs Includes liner notes by Judas

Includes liner notes by Judas Priest

and satiric ("I Know What I Know") portraits of modern life

Neglect Attraction

Come on Pilgrim

Avett Brothers True Sadness (2 Lp's) cs Includes liner notes by JudasThere'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