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Sunday 16 April 2017

Phil and Don Go Country



Something nice and mellow for Easter Sunday despite the subject matter.
Our pal Brian at the ever excellent Linear Tracking Lives! pages recently features some original Everly Brothers numbers versus some brilliant covers by Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe.

This got me thinking that I have not yet featured the harmonious siblings on these pages - harmonious in the musical sense that is if not the personal.
Here then are a couple of numbers from a cheap and cheerful Greatest Hits I picked up in my local charity shop some time back, Not sure why it hasn't seen the light of day before now.

I was all set to feature Take a Message to Mary until I realized that  Brian had featured it so I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail was a late substitute.





17 comments:

  1. Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail is a classic - just fits the Everlys to a T.
    In days of yore, my old pal Gordie and me did a pretty good rendition of "Take a Message to Mary" a la Phil & Don, but our piece de resistance was always a haunting cover of "Ebony Eyes" which usually had most of our audience in tears (usually at a party after much alcohol had been taken, you understand).

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  2. Indeed, we have both followed in each other's footsteps with the brothers... first me with the Davies and now you with the Everlys. A couple of fine choices here today, my friend. Love those voices. Thanks for the kind words.

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  3. Absolutely great for Eastern Sunday, CC. I loved the homage by Edmunds/Lowe back in the old days but those both voices are still fantastic.

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  4. Mr Sour-Pus writes: Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris's version of Brand New Heartache is better

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  5. Ah the harmonious Everly siblings - Have there ever been any singing siblings who have remained harmonious I wonder? Seems a hard thing to achieve. Good pick for Easter.

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    2. Well, you got your Beach Boys, but they haven't remained anything. The Everly Bros. are an inimitable sound, happily stuck circa 1960...

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    3. Do the Louvin Brothers count as harmonious siblings? Harmonious in song not in life...........

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    4. Yup another fine example there George

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    5. Harmonious in song not in life........... That's for sure, George.

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    6. Proclaimers seem to have remained fairly harmonious - as far as we know - but not many others thats for sure.

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