Disappointment

First the good news: 78 minutes of music on one CD. Clean sound from original tapes. Nice booklet giving a history and background to the recordings. And yes, the purity and nuance of the vocal harmonies that make the Everlys so wonderful. It is the lousy choice of most of the songs and hokey arrangements that sink this CD. I am sure that Don and Phil lament the circumstances that resulted in these recordings. I listened to the CD a second time to confirm my embarassment for the Everlys and the disc now sits in a used CD bin. Want a really special Everly's compilation ? Check out Devoted To You/Love Songs on Varese Sarabande.

I buy it for the voices

Just after they had recorded their best albums ("everly time" and "date with" in 1960) a very bad event happened to Everlys they split from their agent Wesley Rose.It came through the recording of temptation which Don loved and Wesley found too risky.They would stop recording in Nashville very soon, This had also a main consequence: Everlys lost the Bryant songs.Mainly for legual reasons.Consequence: the next two albums included lower quality songs.But this does not mean at all it's a bad cd as their voices were still at the top,some songs are treasures, instead of all songs (as before). you will never find these songs again anywhere else : just to mention a few, "autumn leaves" is pure gold, "mamy" is close the bests,"when I grow too old to dream" has one of the best plaintive solo by Don. It will take you some time to fully share my view but if you love Everly SLOW SONGS : buy this CD. If you prefer rock n roll songs, rush to buy the upcoming "beat and soul" album reedition, recorded with dynimite pickers (Burton is one of them) and fantastic new drummer (young Jim Gordon) all recorded at LA ...(the joined album called rock n soul is not as good)Everly yours.Thierry