They opened with You’re Dreaming the title track of their current album, which is a song that creeps right into you with the cooing vocals … a gently surprising starter (most bands start uptempo) but a perfect choice. Don & Phil claimed it was a vocal resonance through being brothers. Sorry to keep harking back to the Everly Brothers, who I saw three times, but I haven’t heard that magic blend since. They both take lead vocals on different songs (Jack takes more), but their trademark is the vocal blend. They like vintage guitars … on YouTube, Jack has a Silvertone. I tried to find details of Jack’s tiny electric guitar on line, and it is an early 1950s National guitar, with Page playing a 1951 National flattop. Jack plays electric guitar, Page plays acoustic guitar.
Great drummer (nice to see a Gretsch kit … I remember setting those up) and acoustic bass player. The Cactus Blossoms are two brothers from Minneapolis, and I hope I got the names of their superb rhythm section right. Three of the songs are remakes of their 2012 debut album ( Adios Maria, Stoplight Kisses, Traveler’s Paradise). Most of it is original and they played all eleven songs from their current album, You’re Dreaming too. Those of us (me, Paul McCartney & Paul Simon) who believe the Everly Brothers were one of THE most important acts of the era are vindicated.īut The Cactus Blossoms don’t do any Everlys songs, and are more traditional country so less “Appalachian folk” than early Everly Brothers, and anyway it’s an eclectic set that runs from Hank Williams and Lefty Frizell via Patsy Cline to Jack and Johnny’s Uncle John’s Bongos then to Chuck Berry’s Brown-Eyed Handsome Man to the New Orleans rhumba sound of Bobby Charles Down South In New Orleans to an obscure Kinks song Who’ll Be The Next In Line to a classic Beatles B-side, This Boy. Again, it’s in the vocal style, not covers. Those were all male / female duos, but The Cactus Blossoms take us back to Don & Phil: two men. The same year Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Prince Billy did some rarer covers on What The Brothers Sang. In 2013, Norah Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong recreated The Everly Brothers album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.
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Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones did it on Little Windows with all new songs in 2016. Sounding like the Everly Brothers is the trend. The Louvin Brothers or The Stanley Brothers might be closer than The Everlys with the country material choices. The first thing everyone thinks from the sibling vocal blend is “Ding!” The Everly Brothers. This was so exciting that I ordered their latest album, You’re Dreaming in advance of the gig. What was this? An American group who had been awarded 4 stars by Mojo, AND was one of the albums of the year, playing a new venue only half a mile away from my home? I looked on line and they’re playing the Bullingdon in Oxford too this week, and we already have tickets to see Margo Price there on Friday. SEE OFFICIAL VIDEO OF “STOPLIGHT KISSES”: (linked) I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams) Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line (Waylon Jennings) No More Crying The Blues (Alton Lott-Jimmy Harrell) Uncle John’s Bongos ( Johnny & Jack: Johnny Mercer & Jack Teagarden cover)ĭown South In New Orleans (Bobby Charles) Victoria Education Centre, Lindsay Road, PooleĬorrections to names / song titles very welcome!Ī Little Unfair (Hank Cochran: Lefty Frizell cover)Ĭhange Your Ways Or Die (Buffalo Song) (Jack Torrey)
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