{"id":333,"date":"2010-04-28T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-04-29T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:37:49","slug":"ive-been-from-here-to-salina-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-04\/ive-been-from-here-to-salina-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Been From Here To Salina Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Brothers Avett came to Santa Barbara and wowed the avid crowd at the Arlington tonight.\u00a0 They took to the stage right on time and played throughout with boat loads of beauty and<\/span> love and<\/span> deliverance.\u00a0 Their continuous arch is the proverbial everyman, and every man, woman and child reveled in the authenticity.\u00a0 They restored our faith in humanity, and did it with\u00a0 sonorous two-story, two-part harmonies and perfectly matched banjo, guitar, keys, drums, bass and, naturally, bowed cello .<\/p>\n

You get a good feel for their musical story from their well-rendered videos (I and Love and You<\/em> is representative), but these southern lads deal from the heart, and every dealt hand is aces.\u00a0 We listened to Scott and the band talk to fans after, straining to hear a false syllable or sentiment.\u00a0\u00a0 Not one syllable.\u00a0 The Avetts profess to know they are blessed, and we heard it lived out on and back of the stage.<\/p>\n

And they had to play that dang song.\u00a0 Salina<\/em>.\u00a0 It took us back to our roots and made us pine for Salinans and Concordians, and especially for quite a few now departed for parts beyond California and this earth.<\/p>\n

“Salina, I’m as nowhere as can be.\u00a0 Could you add some somewhere to me.\u00a0 Ah Kansas, I’m kneeling, ah Kansas, please.”<\/p>\n

Afterwords, Scott said the town, for them, is an American crossroads through which they have passed frequently.\u00a0 Same here, but a native son can feel his life’s priorities at times misaligned.\u00a0 Boatloads of shame.\u00a0 Make sure y’all go home frequently, ya hear?<\/p>\n

To sum up, according to a good woman we know and love:\u00a0 “Dem boys were salt of the earth, barnyard thumping, country cauterwaling, country-slicking rock n’ roll.”<\/p>\n

We concur.\u00a0 The Avetts are, at a minimum, the best Americana band currently on the planet.<\/p>\n

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Tonight we started the week’s A-List with the Avetts.\u00a0 Tomorrow night it’s Avi Buffalo (thanks Club Mercy).\u00a0 And Friday it’s the Antlers. \u00a0 Be right back.\u00a0 In the meantime, here’s Salina<\/em>.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-Salina.mp3|titles=07 Salina]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brothers Avett came to Santa Barbara and wowed the avid crowd at the Arlington tonight.\u00a0 They took to the stage right on time and played throughout with boat loads of beauty and love and deliverance.\u00a0 Their continuous arch is the proverbial everyman, and every man, woman and child reveled in the authenticity.\u00a0 They restored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}