Avett Brothers - True Sadness (2 Lp's) Indie and Memoirs of a Madman

and Memoirs of a Madman collects standout cuts from each of his 11 studio albums

A dose of the blues can be heard in the slow-burning "Bleeding Me

7 Loving You

Hermosa Beach

" "Acknowledgment" is followed by the torrential release of "Resolution

Avett Brothers - True Sadness (2 Lp's) Indie and Memoirs of a MadmanThere'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