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To accomplish this, producer Lenny Waronker has woven an unusual fabric of Southern California salon rock, country-tinged rock, and tapes from the Everly Family radio show of 1952. The result is a warm, sentimental album that is nostalgic and contemporary at the same time.
All of the songs on the album are fine vehicles for the high lonesome harmonies and the liquid guitar picking of the brothers Everly. Standouts are two of Merle Haggard's great prison songs, "Mama Tried" and "Sing Me Back Home," rendered with fine taste, a perfectly delightful Randy Newman song, "Illinois," and two re-worked traditional numbers, "T for Texas" and "Shady Grove." These last two, especially, are beautifully arranged and sung, turned into irresistible toetapperssort of electric hoedown music.
The final montage of radio tapes, "Shady Grove," and Carl Davis' classic "Kentucky" doesn't quite come off, but in light of the merits of the rest of the album that's perfectly excusable. Anybody interested in the so-called country revival now sweeping rock should pick up this album. It's right fine.
(Posted: May 31, 1969)
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- Introduction: The Everly Family (1952)
- Mama Tried
- Less Of Me
- T For Texas
- I Wonder If I Care As Much
- Ventura Boulevard
- Shady Grove
- Illinois
- Living Too Close To The Ground
- You Done Me Wrong
- Turn Around
- Sing Me Back Home
- Montage: Everly Family (1952), The / Shady Grove / Kentucky
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schumachergirl1956 writes:
I always like The Everly Brothers, they are so good as a barber quartet, i have heard the song yet called roots but knowing these boys it will be charming.I have never been to there concerts but i would love to go if i could afford it.I have followed them ever since i was a little girl i prefer Phil singing compared to Don, dont get the wrong idea Don sings just has good.
Nov 25, 2007 19:20:20
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