| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00886973509920 | | Release Date: 9/29/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211420968 | | Item#: M4PNQ2 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 117 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. I and Love and You ~ The Avett Brothers |  | | 2. January Wedding ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 3. Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 4. And It Spread ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 5. Perfect Space, The ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 6. Ten Thousand Words ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 7. Kick Drum Heart ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 8. Laundry Room ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 9. Ill With Want ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 10. Tin Man ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 11. Slight Figure of Speech ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 12. It Goes On and On ~ The Avett Brothers | | | 13. Incomplete and Insecure ~ The Avett Brothers | |
| I and Love and You is The Avett Brothers' major label debut, produced by Grammy-award winning producer Rick Rubin. The album tracks are diverse and unique, ranging from striking ballads to energetic romps. With over 195k independently released albums scanned, and the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Emotionalism, I & Love & You is sure to be embraced as a new favorite by longtime and newfound fans alike. The Avett Brothers have built up an impressive and loyal fan base with constant touring. This prolific band is renowned for their high-energy live shows and incredible mix of eclectic musical styles. The Avett Brothers' fan base continues to grow in markets all around the country, capturing the hearts of all who are lucky enough to experience their music live.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Seth Avett (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, glockenspiel, drums, percussion, background vocals); Scott Avett (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, drums, percussion, background vocals); Joe Kwon, Joe Kwon (cello); Mark Daumen (tuba); Benmont Tench (piano, harmonium); Bob Crawford (electric bass, percussion, background vocals); Simone Felice, Mike Marsh (drums); Justin Glanville, Lenny Castro (percussion); Sarah Swan McDonald (background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Ryan Hewitt. | | Liner Note Author: The Avett Brothers. | | North Carolina sibling duo the Avett Brothers return in 2009, fresh off a few years of building a cult following for its melodic and rootsy alt-bluegrass sound, with the subdued I AND LOVE AND YOU. The opening single and title track basks in piano-pop splendor in an odd mix of Beach Boys, Byrds, and the Band. | | The Avett Brothers continue charting the same musical course as EMOTIONALISM and MIGNONETTE on major-label debut I AND LOVE AND YOU, despite the presence of hands-on producer Rick Ruben. The country-folk duo continue to add elements of pop and hillbilly rock to a country/bluegrass foundation on the 2009 LP, a record with a newfound emphasis on piano and nuanced arrangements. Working with a larger budget allows the group to add small flourishes -- a cello line here, a keyboard crescendo there -- but the resulting music is rarely grand, focusing on textures rather than sheer volume. Scott and Seth Avett share vocals throughout the album, delivering their lyrics in a speak-sing cadence that sounds both tuneful and conversational. Given the opportunities presented here -- the ability to flank their melodies with string sections, organ swells, and Harmonium -- the two devote more focus to slower songs, eschewing the barn-burning bouncefests of their previous albums for material that better displays such sonic details. The result is an intimate, poignant album, laced with rich production that enhances, not clouds, the songwriting itself. |
Producer: Rick Rubin |
Engineer: Dana Nielsen; Dana Nielsen; Gregg Rubin; Ryan Hewitt |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/29/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 35099 | | Label : American Recordings (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00886973509920 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.81)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "I AND LOVE AND YOU is packed with complex, piano-based beauties."Spin (p.90)
- "The have always evoked the Band's MUSIC FROM BIG PINK, but this album's epic sweep and dramatic lyrical imagery enlarges that influence to the scale of arena-rock sing-alongs." Spin (p.29)
- Ranked #33 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "I AND LOVE AND YOU is a sublime, down-yonder sing-along in a minor key." Billboard (p.84)
- "[T]he song 'Heart Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise' is a swelling epic with a title to match..." Paste (magazine)
(p.52)
- "The Avett Brothers are experts in mining the heart and soul of the modern American man....They've constructed something beautiful..." |
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| | Bio | | | The Avett Brothers There is no harmony like brotherly harmony. Something indelible in the weave of voices and play of sensibilities is stamped into the fraternal DNA and also stems from a lifetime of shared experiences. You can hear it in classic brother acts across the musical spectrum, from the Louvin Brothers to the Everly Brothers and on down the decades through the Wilson brothers (Beach Boys), the Davies brothers (Kinks), the Allman Brothers and even the Brothers Gibb (a.k.a., the Bee Gees). You can clearly hear fraternal magic at work in the songs of Scott and Seth Avett, better known as the Avett Brothers, as well. That magic is abundantly evident on I and Love and You, the Avett Brothers' big-label debut. Its 13 songs are delivered in a style that defies pigeonholing but might be described as a rootsy amalgam of folk, country, bluegrass, rock and pop ? even a jab of punk-style dynamics here and there. Drawn by the naked honesty of their songs and the rousing intensity of their live shows, legendary producer and talent scout Rick Rubin signed the Avett Brothers ? consisting of siblings Scott and Seth, plus bassist Bob Crawford - to his American Recordings label in 2008. In harnessing the tools available to them in the service of the strongest set of songs they've written so far, the Avett Brothers have surpassed themselves on I and Love and You. There's really no great secret or magic formula for what they've achieved here. It comes down to honoring inspiration with an awful lot of hard work. "The brothers have an incredibly strong work ethic," affirms Rick Rubin, "and they continually worked at honing their craft. Hearing brothers who have sung their whole lives together ? singing the truth ? was a revelation each new day." "We know what we're worth, and we've been campaigning for a long time to be heard," notes Scott without false modesty. "Rick is helping that by sitting up and saying, 'Let me work with you.' We can tip our hats and pat ourselves on the back momentarily and say, 'Good job guys, we have been heard by somebody who's been heard by a lot of people, and he's let us in his camp.' I really look at it as a positive thing and a good milestone. And when it comes time for the next step, we'll do our best again and keep moving." "We'll just keep writing our songs and making our records, and how it goes is how it goes," concludes Seth. "We're trying our hardest and having some fun doing it, and that's all it needs to be."
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