It is probably pretty safe to say that folk music is not one of the more mainstream genres of music out there right now. I have concluded that this is true for a number of reasons. First, kids today just don’t know what good music is. They would rather listen to auto-tuned and dubbed “pop” stars than someone with real talent. Second, there are not too many folk musical acts out there right now, and third, for those who do exist, they do not thrive on promoting massive world tours for their albums. These guys just want to play.
This mentality is pretty obvious when you have a listen to the Avett Brothers talk about why they do what they do. This North Carolina band has not even put out an album since 2009 when their I And Love And You album was released, yet the guys are still touring.
Scott Avett said in an interview once, “We’ve just never toured for albums. For the first four or five years of our career we never had proper releases; we were under the radar completely.”
They might have been flying under the radar for a while, but slowly it seems that the music biz might be catching on to what all folk lovers see in Avett Brothers, that these guys are carrying on folk. Have a listen to the title track from their 2009 album below to see what I mean.
