Description

The blending of Don and Phil Everlyrsquos voices is truly one of the great sounds of postwar American popular music. Recorded for the Cadence label in Nashville in 1958, their second album ldquoSongs Our Daddy Taught Usrdquo could be termed an early concept album. The twelve songs none of which were hits were Old School country ndash as the title says, songs known to Don and Philrsquos father ndash which celebrated the timeless quality of the music in an era when such celebrations might have been regarded as a retrograde step. It also anticipates the US Folk Revival that was soon to come.This LP rounds up the Cadence singles A and Bsides that didnrsquot feature on their debut album, and is thus home to these perenniallypopular worldwide hits, most of which went Top 10 in the US and UK All I Have To Do Is Dream, Claudette, Bird Dog, Problems, Devoted To You, Take A Message To Mary, lsquoTil I Kissed You, Let It Be Me, Poor Jenny and When Will I Be Loved.The inner sleeve features annotation by Alan Robinson. The record is pressed on 180 gram blue vinyl. The Everly Brothers Heavyweight-LP is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £18