Everly Brothers

Sing Great Country Hits/g Everly Brothers

Two CD set combines their 1963 album Sing Great Country Hits, which was just what the title said: all covers of fairly recent country smashes, none of them Everly Brothers originals, and 1965's Gone Gone Gone. On Sing Great Country Hits the duo's harmonizing was superb, the backing tasteful, and the material intelligently selected, including classics by some of the top country songwriters and performers of the '50s & '60s. Includes 'Oh, Lonesome Me', 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry', 'I Walk The Line', 'I Can't Stop Loving You', 'Release Me', 'Silver Threads and Golden Needles', 'Send Me The Pillow You Dream On' and 'Born to Lose'. Gone Gone Gone delivered much of what Everly Brothers fans had been thirsting for since 1961: an album of bona fide rock'n'roll, the detours into hardcore country songs and adult pop tunes banished for the time being. Moreover it also marked, at long last, a new crop of Everlys songs composed by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, the husband-wife team who'd been responsible for penning many of their best hit singles and album tracks in the late '50s & early '60s. Rhino. 2005.