When you first heard that Billie Joe Armstrong of the arena punk band Green Day and darling little lounge singer Norah Jones were teaming up to make an Everly Brothers tribute album of all things, you wondered if this was some drunken dare taken way too far. At the same time, there was something about the idea that seemed just insane enough to make some strange bit of sense. — Saving Country Music
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‘Barbara Allen’ (2013)
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Whatever you think this album is going to be, whatever you think in your little music brain it will sound like as you squint and try to envision Billie Joe, Norah Jones, and the Everly Brothers sharing the same 3-bedroom apartment, you’re probably wrong. For starters, you’re not going to get any of the noted Everly Brothers hits. No “Bye Bye Love,” no “Wake Up Little Susie,” no “Bird Dog,” “All I Have To Do Is Dream,” or other recognizable Everly Brothers standards. Foreverly is not a tribute album in the traditional sense, it is a reboot of a specific album, a reinterpretation of the 1958 Everly Brothers’ Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, song by song, line by line, with virtually the same track list, ratcheting up the strange factor yet another notch.
What this results in of all things is a stripped-down, old-time, primitive country record, referring back to the Ralph Peer era in country music; very rootsy, with murder ballads and Gothic American textures, and traditional, folksy themes and compositions. — Saving Country Music
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‘Silver Haired Daddy of Mine’ (2013)
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"I'm a big vinyl collector, so I was just flipping through the bins," Armstrong says of discovering Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, a lesser-known album of traditional tunes recorded by The Everly Brothers. "I thought it would be cool to remake the record. But I thought it would be cool to do it with a woman."
Norah Jones was game for the challenge, if a little unsure how their voices would sound together — especially, she says, attempting the close two-part harmonies that are the Everlys' trademark. Once she and Armstrong got to the studio, one rule made all the difference.
"I said, 'You have to look at me to sing close harmonies. We can't not look at each other; it doesn't work,' " Jones says. "I was just staring at his lips the whole time to make sure that we breathe at the same time and that it all is cohesive." — NPR
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‘Down in the Willow Garden’ (2013)
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A couple of vids from a great 1986 documentary about the Athens, GA music scene; Athens, GA Inside/Out. Pylon, B-52’s, Flat Duo Jets and Bar-B-Q Killers are my favorites in the doc. Also featuring R.E.M. right before they started playing arenas.
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Pylon ‘Stop It’ (1980)
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R.E.M. ‘Dream (All I Have To Do) (1986) (Original by the Everly Brothers)
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