Avett Brothers update: Three December dates at the Orange Peel?

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Rumor has it that the Avett Brothers will play three – count them, three – dates in December at the Orange Peel. Last year, the Avetts played two sold out shows at the Peel and it was awesome. The guys clearly love the Orange Peel setting, so I hope the rumors are true. When it comes to the Avetts, there’s no need for a sit-down show at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.

Meantime, I’m counting down the days until the July 22 release of The Gleam II, the Avetts’ new EP. In a twist, the record will be released on CD and vinyl. Here’s more for Ramseur Records:

The Avett Brothers release The Second Gleam; six new songs offered with the natural lyrical clarity and honest delivery that has become synonymous with their name. With this addition to their growing body of work, Scott and Seth Avett establish a series, while further separating their writing from the modern landscape of music, popular or otherwise. Following in the initial footsteps of the first Gleam recording, this second installment sings to the uncommon senses of the common man. The record walks calmly and powerfully among fragile and hard-learned themes of life and song, passing through loss, change, hope, death, dedication to family, late nights in the hospital, love as always, and much more. At once plain and poetic, simple and complicated as those who will give their time to hear it, we find: The Second Gleam.