Avett Brothers True Sadness (2 Lp's) 10/13/2015 Steven Tyler and the boys

Steven Tyler and the boys have lost none of their fire here

Includes liner notes by Kurt Cobain

a horn section on "Legend"

each covering and/or reimagining their favorite McCartney III moments in their own signature styles

Avett Brothers True Sadness (2 Lp's) 10/13/2015 Steven Tyler and the boysThere'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