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Jim Avett With Andy Friedman The Evening Muse Thursday June 10, 2010 Doors 7:00 PM / Music 8:00 PM Tickets: $10.00 Advance & $12.00 DOS Tickets can be purchased in advance online at Music Today and by phone at 1.800.594.TIXX |
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Jim Avett and Family is a gospel album by a
retired welder, his daughter and two sons. He is not only a welder
of course. He, like any man, is more than his career, more than his
working business. He is a farmer. He is an ex-psychology professor.
He is a husband of forty years and a father of thirty-five. He
draws. He cuts and bails his own hay for his own cows. From 1967 to
1971, he served in the United States Navy. He is a dedicated family
man. He has worked with neglected children and broken households as
a social worker. He has built bridges of steel and a home of lumber.
Oh yes, he sings and picks the guitar as well. With this record, he
has done so with his family in mind, so that his children’s children
and so on will have a way to know a little of who he is, who he was.
Perhaps fittingly, it is by his own children’s encouragement that it
is now available to the general public. For all of what he is, this
collection of tunes is a glimpse into his sentiment and history; the
son of a preacher and a pianist, who as a boy, sat in the pews and
heard not only his father’s sermons, but these songs as well. Now,
he has sung them with the tape rolling, as honest and rough-cut as
it gets, and anyone may listen. |
Artist's Web Site
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“A hot
live act” (NPR) and “one of the most respected bands on the Brooklyn
scene,” (CLEVELEND FREE TIMES) Andy Friedman & The Other
Failures tour this fall in support of "Idaho," the first single from
their forthcoming sophomore studio album, Weary Things, which will
be released in January 2009 on City Salvage Records/Kindred
Rhythm.
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