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I first bought the record version of this album from a P.X. in Darmstadt, Germany and I played it to death. This IS the roots of the Everly Brothers, as pure and unadulterated as a clear mountain stream. This is the Everlys unplugged and unpolished and though the sound is well engineered and of very good quality, it's not overproduced or slicked up in any way. It's the real deal! Some may find this album too simple, the guitar technique too limited, but if anyone had the privilege of sitting on a front porch in Appalachia (pronounced by those that live there, properly in fact, as apple atcha) with the Everly Brothers at their childhood home in Kentucky, this is pretty much what you'd hear, songs about Kentucky and missing the hound dogs chasin' coons. Mothers and fathers who love their children and would give all for them and did. Some may simply label these songs as "old tearjerkers" or too sentimental but there's none contrived, they're very real to the Appalachian people who sing the truth, because, in the mountains, your truth is unquestionable. There's "Barbary Allen", a song that arrived to the mountains with Scotch And Irish pioneers, later but still very old songs like, "Down By th Willow Garden", and a song sung long ago by Bradley Kincaid, "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?"
These are songs as comfortable as your Granddaddy's old flannel shirt or drinkin' water from a dipper or the pride and love for your oldest relatives who've always been a part of you.
If you can't handle that don't buy it. But if what I've said has any meaning in your life, buy it and sit a spell on that porch that sadly, may no longer be standin', a way of life that's seen moonshine replaced by prescription drug abuse, simple songs replaced by hard rock and Country that ain't even Country Music. A simpler more innocent time.
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