What the Brothers Sang

Great album with a lot of great players. Make the purchase. You won't be dissapointed.

In the late sixties, early seventies, the Everly Brothers transitioned from their chart topping sound which still reeked of the fifties, into a more country/country rock style. 30-40 years on, it's hard to see the transition, because what that style of music became we're already familiar with, grown tired of and reduced to nostalgia. In covering this set of tunes recorded during that period by the Everly's, Dawn and Billie capture the transitional nature not by bringing the songs into the new century. Instead they work backwards, via Americana, country and even the Jefferson Airplane, and manage somehow to hold it all together. What people sometimes forget about Nashville is that it not only gave us Johnny Cash, but Blonde on Blonde as well. Dawn and Billie create a new Nashville sound, by way of Kentucky, Oakland and a thousand points in between.