That one and "Roots" are the two must-haves. "Gone Gone Gone," "In Our Image" and "The New Album" (which contains the incredible "I'll See Your Light," originally recorded '65) are also very good.
I'd suggest getting "Two Yanks" and "Roots" and the box "Heartaches and Harmonies," because there's plenty of great unissued stuff included on the box. You got that, you have what I consider the best of the Everlys.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
The one original on here is totally awesome too: "I Wonder if I Care Anymore" with that vauguely psychedelic guitar noise throughout and a general wasted vibe. so nice.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
my dad played in bluegrass bands in the 60s and still collects mandolins and dobros and stuff. recently i was trying to connect w/him over music and see what kinda stuff he was into and he told me the Dillards were his ultimate heroes when he was around my age.
― JaXoN (jaxon), Monday, 3 October 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 3 October 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (jaxon), Monday, 3 October 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
They don't have a psych album per se, but "The Everly Brothers Sing" includes a number called Mary Jane, which is perhaps their most overtly psych moment. It's about...oh you guessed."Sing" also includes the genuinely wonderful "Bowling Green", and a very ill-advised cover of "Whiter Shade Of Pale". I wrote about the Evs' mid-late 60s output on my blog awhile back:http://www.livejournal.com/users/small_circle/15693.html#cutid1
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Roots rules
Stormy if you don't already know it, try Merle Haggard's Jimmie Rodgers tribute album Same Train, Different Time.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I've not heard their version of "Whiter shade of pale" since 1978 (when I was eight), when the tape we had it on got chewed up by our car stereo. Hearing it would probably take me straight back to Harpenden in my mind. I always remember it as being quite a good version, but I suppose you don't make good judgements when you're eight.
― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
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― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
And I kinda wonder whether the entire album wasn't actually done in L.A. Maybe the more pop stuff like "Don't Run and Hide" and "Like Every Time Before" was done w/ Hollies? Dunno, it all sounds similar to me. I need to get the reissue, since I (ha ha) was able to burn a CD from a pristine original WB LP, and it sounds great ! And when you compare the EBs' versions to the Hollies', the EBs versions just kick the Hollies' ass, frankly, so much more depth.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― JAS, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
it starts with a wicked trippy cover of Tumbling Tumbleweeds - the only other version of the song i've heard is Michael Nesmith's, itself pretty tripped out - long drawn out droney vocals. the entire thing is immaculately produced. nice country flourishes. a few more rockin' songs. i could easily compare this album to a Gene Clark album. it's that good.
― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 May 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― jaxon, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Roots!
― ian, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
"it's everly time" + "a date with the everly brothers" is really where it's at.
― akaky akakievich, Saturday, 19 September 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
the albums seem spotty to me, i'd stick w/ the singles collections. "man with the money" is great.
― amateurist, Saturday, 19 September 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
<3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3j0f299IiA
― velko, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
search: Bowling Green
― lukevalentine, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 08:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Brio, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― o. nate, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a great overview. I love it.
― Brio, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
There's my next batch of eMusic credits spoken for then.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJWLGxh_pU
― buzza, Monday, 10 December 2012 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Rob M Revisited, Monday, 10 December 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Muskrat" is pretty great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTtLbXHN8E
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
where to start with these dudes? I feel like I should know their stuff
fwiw I kinda hate "Wake Up, Little Susie"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 February 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits is also great, and the album tracks don't often show up on compilations
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
underrated Warner Brothers track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6pDRZ9q-4
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
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...
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
hmm love both those Dillard-related albums unregistered mentions - Roots it is!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 February 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
XPS Oh yeah, if you're into The Beau Brummels, Ron Elliot is all over the Everly's stuff from '67-'70.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Get "A Date With The Everly Brothers".
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
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
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
but yeah the "walk right back" compilation is A++++++
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
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?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 February 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
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)
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
stories we could tell has this minor classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xl_kMvlzV0
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
i should say, "last two albums before their first break-up"
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
o wait heres the studio version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIW_GTe9K1E
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
good trippy melancholy everlys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNB3UVAShZc
― Brio2, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link