The Everybodyfields were everywhere a couple of years ago. I saw them at any number of music festivals, often on the same bill as the Avett Brothers. Now it appears that they’ve decided to split. From the Charlotte Observer:
Fans of Tennessee alternative country act the Everybodyfields can no longer see the recently disbanded group live, but coincidentally its co-founders – Jill Andrews and Sam Quinn – both play Charlotte this week.
Quinn plays at Visulite on Tuesday; Andrews performs at Evening Muse on Friday.
The pair called it quits last summer, after five years together. As the Everybodyfields, Andrews and Quinn collaborated on three impressively warm albums, the last of which was the omnisciently titled 2007 swan song “Nothing Is OK” (released by Concord’s Ramseur Records).
“We both wanted to do different things,” says Andrews. “Trying to do different things in one band doesn’t really work.”
Quinn compares the split to a divorce. “A lot of it was just ‘These people don’t need to be in the same room again for a while,'” he says, calling Andrews’ solo project – which he witnessed at The Grey Eagle in Asheville – a “quality deal.” He adds, jokingly: “We’re civil. We don’t have to meet at Hardee’s at two in the morning to trade kids.”