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The Avett Brothers Show

We just got back from seeing the Avett Brothers in concert here in St. Francisville. They were great. Really great. The photo is from the Facebook feed of a friend. [UPDATED to feature Lucas this morning in his Avett Brothers shirt; no, his teeth aren’t dirty; he chose purple-and-gold LSU braces] My shots came out […]

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We just got back from seeing the Avett Brothers in concert here in St. Francisville. They were great. Really great. The photo is from the Facebook feed of a friend. [UPDATED to feature Lucas this morning in his Avett Brothers shirt; no, his teeth aren’t dirty; he chose purple-and-gold LSU braces] My shots came out badly. An interesting thing happened. My son Lucas, who is nine, is the only one of my children who is musically inclined. He’s just like his uncle, Jud, who is a natural musician. I hear Lucas in the living room noodling around on the piano, and boy, does he ever have the gift. So we were standing in the darkness under the moon and the pine trees tonight, with the band about half an hour into their set, and Lucas was in front of me, and then he turns and plants his head into my chest, sobbing, saying, “I didn’t think I would love it like this.”

The power of music. I had tears too, thinking about how those chords, those harmonies, that power on the stage moved a little boy to tears. He couldn’t talk about it. All throughout the show, he was so moved he couldn’t speak, or even look at me. We’ve been home for an hour, and he still can’t talk about it. He’s going to be a musician one day, I know it. I liked music a lot when I was a kid, but what the music did to that little boy tonight was something that was beyond me at that age. It’s a beautiful thing to see. I bought him an Avett Brothers concert t-shirt, and gave it to him on the walk back to the car. You’d have thought it was a golden fleece.

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