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The Everly Brothers

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10 months ago

"The Everly Brothers- Let It Be MeI had a dream last night with this song running through it. Gotta love the Everlys.

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Who invented country rock? Maybe it was the Everly Brothers.
about 1 month ago

Of course it's not just one artist. But amid all the usually mentioned suspects, from Elvis to Gram Parsons. the Everlys are too seldom mentioned, maybe because there's a certain amount of teen idol residue still clinging to their boots. Which is deeply unfair - they're the Louvin Brothers with a backbeat. To be honest, the question posed in the title of this post is only interesting to me o...

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10 cool songs about clowns
over 2 years ago

The greatest song that mentions clowns is "Like A Rolling Stone," but for the purpose of this arbitrary list, let's stick to songs that have a more consistently clownish lyrical thread.1. The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles or The (English) BeatSmokey takes his I-seem-like-that-but-I'm-really-this thematic construction and weds it to a calliope-ish arrangement, and voila! The ...

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The Everly Brothers: Two of my favorite songs (Romantic music #5)
about 1 year ago
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The impact of The Everly Brothers on popular music is a large one. Not only were they hitmakers in the 50s and early 60s, they were an early blend of country, rock and pop. Their sibling harmonies inspired hundreds of musicians, including Lennon and McCartney, Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds (who recorded an EP of their songs that was a giveaway with the sole Rockpile LP), and too many others to cou...

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over 2 years ago
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The Everly Brothers rose to fame in late fifties by combining the "high-lonesome" harmonies of Bluegrass music (then called "hillbilly music") with the balled style of of country music, and presented as (rather tame) rockabilly. They had an impressive string of hits before the Beatle invasion, and from l i understand they remained quite popular in europe long after their American popularity ha...

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