Avett Brothers

The Boot counts down country music's best songs about winter.

There is beauty to be found in and lessons to be learned from troubling, tough times, as the past eight months have been for many people, says Scott Avett.

"Just when I surrender to my shadow / I snap out of it and step into the light / I step back into the light ..."

Do y'all agree?

Which one is your favorite?

It took compromise to get "Bang Bang" on the Avett Brothers' 'Closer Than Together' album ...

"The Avett Brothers will probably never make a sociopolitical record ... but if we did, it might sound something like this."

Get to know the Purple Charlotte Steppers Club, the dancers behind the line-dance routine in the "High Steppin'" music video.