Everly Brothers, The - Sentimental Rocking Brothers '2023

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Be Bop-a-lula (Remastered 2023)
02. I'm here to get my baby out of jail (Remastered 2023)
03. Keep a knockin' (Remastered 2023)
04. Lighning Express (Remastered 2023)
05. Kentucky (Remastered 2023)
06. Wake up, little Susie (Remastered 2023)
07. Hey, Dolly Baby (Remastered 2023)
08. Rockin' alone in an old rocking chair (Remastered 2023)
09. That silver-haired daddy of mine (Remastered 2023)
10. Rip It up (Remastered 2023)
11. Brand new heartache (Remastered 2023)
12. Down in the willow garden (Remastered 2023)
13. Barbara Allen (Remastered 2023)
14. By-bye Love (Remastered 2023)
15. This little girl of mine (Remastered 2023)
16. Raving gambler (Remastered 2023)
17. Maybe tomorrow (Remastered 2023)
18. After so many years (Remastered 2023)
19. I wonder If I care as much (Remastered 2023)
20. Should we tell him (Remastered 2023)
21. Put my little shoes away (Remastered 2023)
22. Long time gone (Remastered 2023)
23. Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet? (Remastered 2023)
24. Leave my woman alone (Remastered 2023)


 more"Bye Bye Love" began a phenomenal three-year string of classic hit
singles for Cadence, including "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have to Do Is
Dream," "Bird Dog," "('Til) I Kissed You," and "When Will I Be Loved." The
Everlys sang of young love with a heart-rending yearning and compelling
melodies. The harmonies owed audible debts to Appalachian country music, but
were imbued with a keen modern pop sensibility that made them more accessible
without sacrificing any power or beauty. They were not as raw as the wild
rockabilly men from Sun Records, but they could rock hard when they wanted to.
Even their midtempo numbers and ballads were executed with a force missing in
the straight country and pop tunes of the era. The duo enjoyed a top-notch
support team of producer Archie Bleyer, great Nashville session players like
Chet Atkins, and the brilliant songwriting team of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant.
Don, and occasionally Phil, wrote excellent songs of their own as well.

In 1960, the Everlys left Cadence for a lucrative contract with the then-young
Warner Bros. label (though it's not often noted, the Everlys would do a lot to
establish Warner as a major force in the record business). It's sometimes been
written that the duo never recaptured the magic of their Cadence recordings, but
actually Phil and Don peaked both commercially and artistically with their first
Warner releases. "Cathy's Clown," their first Warner single, was one of their
greatest songs and a number one hit. Their first two Warner LPs, employing a
fuller and brasher production than their Cadence work, were not just among their
best work, but two of the best rock albums of the early '60s. The hits kept
coming for a couple of years, some great ("Walk Right Back," "Temptation"), some
displaying a distressing, increasing tendency toward soft pop and maudlin
sentiments ("Ebony Eyes," "That's Old Fashioned").

Don and Phil's personal lives came under a lot of stress in the early '60s: they
enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves (together), and studied acting for six
months but never made a motion picture. More seriously, Don developed an
addiction to speed and almost died of an overdose in late 1962. By that time,
their career as chart titans in the U.S. had ended; "That's Old Fashioned"
(1962) was their last Top Ten hit. Their albums became careless, erratic
affairs, which was all the more frustrating because many of their flop singles
of the time were fine, even near-classic efforts that demonstrated they could
still deliver the goods.

Virtually alone among first-generation rock & roll superstars, the Everlys stuck
with no-nonsense rock & roll and remained determined to keep their sound
contemporary, rather than drifting toward soft pop or country like so many
others. Although their mid-'60s recordings were largely ignored in America, they
contained some of their finest work, including a ferocious Top 40 single in 1964
("Gone, Gone, Gone"). They remained big stars overseas -- in 1965, "Price of
Love" went to number two in the U.K. at the height of the British Invasion. They
incorporated jangling Beatles/Byrds-esque guitars into some of their songs and
recorded a fine album with the Hollies (who were probably more blatantly
influenced by the Everlys than any other British band of the time). In the late
'60s, they helped pioneer country-rock with the 1968 album Roots, their most
sophisticated and unified full-length statement. None of this revived their
career as hitmakers, though they could always command huge audiences on
international tours and hosted a network TV variety show in 1970.

The decades of enforced professional togetherness finally took their toll on the
pair in the early '70s, which saw a few dispirited albums and, finally, an
acrimonious breakup in 1973. They spent the next decade performing solo, which
only proved -- as is so often the case in close-knit artistic partnerships --
how much each brother needed the other to sound his best. In 1983, enough water
had flowed under the bridge for the two to resume performing and recording
together. The tours, with a backup band led by guitarist Albert Lee, proved they
could still sing well. Their records (both live and studio) were fair efforts
that, in the final estimation, were not in nearly the same league as their '50s
and '60s classics, although Paul McCartney penned a small hit single for them
("On the Wings of a Nightingale"). One of the more successful and dignified
reunions in the rock annals, the Everlys continued to perform live, although
they didn't release albums together after the late '80s. Phil Everly died on
January 3, 2014 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; he
was 74 years old. After his brother's death, Don made the occasional public
appearance, including joining Paul Simon on-stage to sing "Bye Bye Love" on the
Nashville stop of Simon's 2018 farewell tour. Don Everly died at his home in
Nashville, Tennessee on August 21, 2021; he was 84 years old. © Richie
Unterberger



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