#13 Scott Avett and the Road to Now
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In the lucky 13th episode of the Road to Now, Bob and Ben sit down with the multi-talented Scott Avett to talk about the influences, events, and family history that led him to his life as an artist. Scott is a founding member of the award-winning band The Avett Brothers, which he established more than a decade and a half ago along with his brother Seth, and Road to Now host Bob Crawford. Scott is also an accomplished painter whose art has been shown across the United States.
The hosts of the Road to Now have a long-established friendship with the guest, and both Bob and Ben agree that Scott's personal history and worldview are remarkable. We therefore hope you will enjoy what is not only a fascinating interview, but a convergence of three individuals whose lives have roots that span most of their adult lives.
Recorded Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 in Portland, Oregon.
More on this episode and others can be found at: www.theroadtonow.com
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, on the road to now, regardless I have a plan or a deadline or a show to prepare for, I can't stop and I don't, I wish I had a way to articulate why I go to work, but I just try to, I mean, I just do, I just go to work. |
| 0:29.3 | I know when I need to, but I don't know why. |
| 0:33.4 | When I'm in a situation where it's cold, rather than trying to make it warm, |
| 0:38.3 | accept that I'm going to be cold, remove my need that myself is calling for, |
| 0:45.3 | and be accepting of what is. |
| 0:50.3 | And that is, just that letting go. |
| 0:55.0 | In spiritual terms, that is the giving of myself to God. |
| 1:00.0 | And trusting that in giving myself to God, that I finally, that I am becoming my true self. |
| 1:09.0 | When we were younger, or when I was younger, I felt like everything was happening to me was just happening to me, |
| 1:13.6 | and it never happened to anybody else, ever. |
| 1:16.6 | And I was, as a child growing up, seeing Clegg's book and hearing about him, I didn't really care to hear about it. |
| 1:25.6 | I didn't, I wanted to challenge it, I didn't want to believe that there was an alignment that I would ever have to be a part of. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer. I'm Bob Crawford. And this is The Road to Now. |
| 1:38.4 | That's right. And the Road to Now took us up to Portland not too long ago, where we did several interviews. And after some speculation |
| 1:46.8 | and some intrigue, we managed to secure an interview with an elusive individual by the name |
| 1:52.7 | of Scott David. That's right. He's elusive, mysterious, and he lives in the bunk across from me on the |
| 1:58.4 | bus. One of the things that I wanted for people to see in having us, you and I having a conversation |
| 2:07.0 | with Scott was I wanted people to see the guy that I, that I speak with every morning having |
| 2:13.7 | coffee with him. |
| 2:14.9 | And he's just a lot of really interesting views and a lot of different |
| 2:18.6 | topics. Yeah. And, you know, when you talked about doing this, one of the things that I said was I think it's better if we don't, you know, to make sure that I'm there so we can mediate, I could mediate it to make sure we, you know, pull things back in. I guess what I didn't think about is that I've known Scott since I was like 14 too. So it's really at times it became a |
| 2:37.3 | conversation between the things back in. I guess what I didn't think about is that I've known Scott since I was like 14 |
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