The Avett Brothers: NPR Tiny Desk Concert

June, 22, 2009 , by Jedidiah

The Avett Brothers stopped by NPR’s All Things Considered for a three song live set last week. They play Laundry Room off of their new album I and Love and You, an unrecorded song Down with Shine and Bella Donna from The Gleam II.

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With all due respect to its terrific albums and kinetic, frenetic live shows, if The Avett Brothers could put on a three-song acoustic concert at every workplace in America, the band would be a world-beating colossus. For proof, take six minutes to don some headphones and listen to “Laundry Room,” which opens this set at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.

“Laundry Room” is a highlight of the rootsy, harmony-drenched rock group’s forthcoming album I and Love and You, scheduled for release in September. But if that song isn’t peeking far enough into the future, the band — Seth Avett on guitar and vocals, Scott Avett on banjo and vocals, Bob Crawford on bass and Joe Kwon on cello — jumps even farther ahead with the as-yet-unrecorded “Down With the Shine.” To close the set, the group finally looks backward with a lovely rendering of the ballad “Bella Donna,” from last year’s The Gleam II EP.