Recommendations of the Editorial team
The roots of the Everly Brothers range very, very deeply into the bottom of American culture. First of all, you should know that the Everly Brothers were already stars as children. You had a radio show with your family. And because her father Ike was a well-known country guitarist, other important musicians came to visit.
Among them Merle Travis and Chet Atkins, who helped the Everly Brothers, to come to Grand Ole Opry. They had to do with really good, traditional country music every day and thus transported the legacy of all the big “brotherhoods”-the Delmore Brothers, the Louvin Brothers and the Blue Sky Boys-into the 1950s, where they met other pioneers of early rock’n’roll and finally made history.
The Everly Brothers may have mixed the country with the new sound of the Fifties rock’n’roll even more convincingly than Elvis Presley. The influence of the Everly Brothers even exceeds their fame.
They were an important role model for John Lennon and Paul McCartney
They were an important role model for John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who, by the way, called themselves the Foreverly Brothers at the very way – and of course also for Simon and Garfunkel. As children, Artie and I learned our first rock’n’roll lessons at the Everlys.
When the Everly Brothers went on tour with Artie and me in 2003, they had actually been retired for three years. For us they got the suitcases out again.
I said to Phil: “If you actually want to calm down, you can just as well go on stage one last time, bow and let me explain what you mean for us and our culture.”