I’m “done” with politics at the moment, trying to find other diversions .... to that end, I found this blog post on Powerline about the Everly Brothers & I thought others might enjoy it, too. I love these guys, so here’s a link to the post .... there are 8 links to videos of songs in the post.
Sunday morning coming down
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/sunday-morning-coming-down-87.php
A brief excerpt from blog post:
For a change of pace and for the sheer pleasure of the thing, I would like to pay tribute to Don Everly on the occasion of his birthday yesterday; he turned 83. Younger brother Phil died at the age of 74 six years ago. In the Cosmic American Music the Everly Brothers have a constellation all to themselves. They brought the close harmony singing of traditional country music into the mainstream of American popular music. Richie Unterberger has a good overview of the vicissitudes of their career in his Allmusic profile of the Everlys. Kit Rachlis has an insightful chapter on the Everlys in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll.
More than a few great musicians learned close harmony singing by listening to their records. To take just one example, Paul McCartney acknowledged his debt to the Everlys in “Let ‘Em In.” Simon and Garfunkel learned harmony singing by imitating the Everlys’ records. And so on.