'May It Last' Brings The Avett Brothers From North Carolina To HBO
Judd Apatow is one of the directors of a new documentary airing on HBO that follows the recording of a Grammy-nominated album from the North Carolina band.
by Linda Holmes
Jan 29, 2018
4 minutes
Music documentaries often either begin or end — or both — with a performer's triumphant moment. So does , begin at Madison Square Garden in April 2016, where Scott and Seth Avett are chatting with a crew from "MSG's digital content department" about what it's like to be there performing for the first time. Can they talk a little bit, the host asks, about playing at MSG? "We can't talk a whole lot about playing yet, 'cause we never have before," Scott says, 95 percent telling the truth and 5 percent gently busting her chops. Then the fellas, backstage, show their passes to security ("Awesomesauce," the guard thumbs-ups) on their
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