#163 The Avett Brothers Archive w/ Tim Mossberger
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
For many years now, Tim Mossberger has been building an incredible collection of material objects, music, and information on Bob's band The Avett Brothers. In this episode, Bob and Ben talk with Tim about how he became the Avett Archivist, where he gets his rare items, and how he processes, preserves, and organizes the massive amount of material he's acquired over the years. Bob and Tim also talk about the history of The Avett Brothers & the turning points that helped the band bring their music to a wider audience.
The Avett Archives are open and available to the public at http://www.asmylifeturnstoasong.com/. You can follow Tim on twitter at @AvettArchivist.
We've also posted some of Tim's deep cuts on the page for this episode, available by clicking here.
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The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. This episode was edited Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Tim Whedon. I'm the host of the Daddy Unscripted podcast. No, it's not just me talking |
| 0:18.6 | with dads about being dads and it's not just for dads, that's |
| 0:22.9 | for sure. |
| 0:24.1 | What it is is a varied spectrum of inspiring stories and emotional tales from a wide range |
| 0:29.6 | of guests that come from the world of sports, of music, and even the guy that lives down |
| 0:34.6 | the street from you. |
| 0:35.9 | Not that guy, but the other guy. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, that one. |
| 0:38.9 | I can pretty much guarantee you're going to get something out of every episode. |
| 0:42.5 | So come check out the Daddy Unscripted Podcast. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the road to now. |
| 0:58.4 | Today's episode is an interview with a self-made man, |
| 1:06.3 | Tim Mossberger, who is the archivist for the Avet brothers, a really remarkable guy who has built this incredible collection of just physical material from the Abitz past, pictures. |
| 1:14.2 | He knows everything about the lyrics to the band. |
| 1:18.0 | And, you know, Bob is in the band, and we talk about the band sometimes, the same way we talk |
| 1:22.4 | about everything else we do. |
| 1:23.5 | And certainly, I'm a big fan of the band. |
| 1:25.7 | I've loved those guys for a long time. |
| 1:28.1 | But this was a perfect opportunity for us to bring in our academic side, our historian side, to the discussion of the band, because Tim has actually developed this amazing structure of sorting information and finding information, which is remarkable. And my wife, Dr. Kelly |
| 1:47.3 | Colar, who is an archivist and associate professor of history at MTSU, she teaches students |
| 1:54.4 | how to establish archives. Just seeing them talk when we met, all met together this past |
| 2:00.4 | December, was remarkable how |
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