The Everly Brothers' Warner Bros. output: S/D, C/D

i lied about Sunset Towers being super duper amazing. i didn't realize at the time that i'd downloaded a 2fer with the self titled album in front of sunset towers. the s/t is the one w/tumbling tumbleweeds. i just found the record of sunset and it's nice, though not as amazing. the stand out track is Souther California by far

Roots!

"it's everly time" + "a date with the everly brothers" is really where it's at.

the albums seem spotty to me, i'd stick w/ the singles collections. "man with the money" is great.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3j0f299IiA

search: Bowling Green

post-WB period, but I picked up a reissue of "Stories We Could Tell" recently - they're kinda hazy singer-songwritery early 70s shaggy-haired end-of-the-road record. Has a couple of clunkers but some nice moments too.

Selfish question: How is this comp as an overview of this period?

Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. 1960 to 1969

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/the_everly_brothers/walk_right_back__the_everly_brothers_on_warner_bros__1960_to_1969/

Does this hit most of the high points, or would I be better off getting individual albums?

That's a great overview. I love it.

There's my next batch of eMusic credits spoken for then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJWLGxh_pU

Since I last wrote on this thread, I managed to get hold of the two Bear Family box sets "The price of fame" and "Chained to a memory" which seems to be everything the Everlys recorded for Warners and RCA afterwards, including out takes and rarities galore and a very strange live album from 1970. Even a half hearted strum through "The weight". Very very good, if slightly exhausting. There's pretty much a whole album's worth of material after "Roots" which was either only singles or unreleased - two versions of "Mr Soul" for instance.

It's odd, for years you couldn't get any of the EB mid to late 60s stuff on CD and then Rhino issue that 5 cd "Original albums" series with "Two Yanks" and "Roots" in it. Nice bargain really.

"Muskrat" is pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTtLbXHN8E

where to start with these dudes? I feel like I should know their stuff

fwiw I kinda hate "Wake Up, Little Susie"

I'd recommend a compilation of their '50s Cadence singles (I have this one on CD, but the sound quality is middling) and the 2-CD Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers On Warner Bros. 1960 To 1969 compilation. if you like what you hear on the Warner comp, a lot of their Warner albums are available as twofers. my favorite album of theirs is Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (on Cadence), a collection of acoustic country/folk ballads that hails back to old brother harmony duos like the Louvin Brothers and the Blue Sky Boys. Roots is also as great as people say it is; it's their answer to west coast country-folk-psych-rock, and it's a good complement to the Dillards' Wheatstraw Suite and the first Dillard & Clark album. there are still a lot of Everly Bros albums I haven't heard, so maybe someone else can do a better job of summarizing.

The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits is also great, and the album tracks don't often show up on compilations

underrated Warner Brothers track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6pDRZ9q-4

Two Yanks In England is the Everly's doing a bunch of Hollies' obscurities alongside the odd original and lesser-known British Invasion hit, backed by the Hollies, Jimmy Page, James Burton etc...

hmm love both those Dillard-related albums unregistered mentions - Roots it is!

XPS Oh yeah, if you're into The Beau Brummels, Ron Elliot is all over the Everly's stuff from '67-'70.

Get "A Date With The Everly Brothers".

i am probably not the person to ask b/c i might be one of the world's biggest E.B. fans (i have all of their albums on one format or another, and i like the ones that other folks don't seem to like), but I'd say you might want to start with one of these albums:

- It's Everly Time!
- Roots
- Beat & Soul

but yeah the "walk right back" compilation is A++++++

if you like the warner bros stuff i'd recommend going deep and getting those bear family box sets. so what if you have to sell a kidney to afford them?

The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits is also great

Weird, I was just listening to this. Their version of "Send Me the Pillow that You Dream On" is positively sublime.

i even like their last two albums, much more obviously "country-rock," where they do some singer-songwriter stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_Chicken_%26_Listen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_We_Could_Tell

hell, i even like all of the comeback albums (not to the same extent though)

stories we could tell has this minor classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xl_kMvlzV0

i should say, "last two albums before their first break-up"

re. their comeback albums, i've always liked their cover of this dire straits song (which actually might have been released before the D.S. version?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkFcQRiFL68

that's knopfler on lead guitar, of course

o wait heres the studio version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIW_GTe9K1E

good trippy melancholy everlys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNB3UVAShZc