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'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.
Scott and Seth Avett in the HBO documentary <em>May It Last: A Portrait Of The Avett Brothers. </em>

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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