As it happens, I’ll get to privately honor two years of Auto Tunes in the next couple weeks with two very promising live shows: the Avett Brothers and Ray LaMontagne with Brandi Carlile.

“But TGOTS,” you protest. “You live in Western New York, and our Googling does not find those performers in that region any time soon.”

True, I respond. I’ll actually be in Maine for a while at the end of May, in large part because and it turns out that those beloved artists will be there as well. I’ll get Ray and Brandi on the lawn at the riverside in Bangor and the Avetts in Portland’s State Theatre (a porn palace throughout our growing up, now magically restored) a week later.

HEAVEN. Instead of “I and Love and You,” it’s “Maine and Music and Me.” Which really amounts to about the same thing.

I suspect I’ll feel the need to swoon publicly about these shows, so check this space for updates. See that? We mean it when we say we can’t quite quit this blog.

I do love “I and Love and You,” and the subject line of this entry did come to me late last night, but for Avett exit music, I think I’m gonna have to go with “Slight Figure of Speech”:

 

Yeah, brother, I don’t always know what I’m rambling on about either.

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