Everly Brothers - Night at Royal Albert Hall: Complete Reunion Show Audio CD
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Band: Everly Brothers
Title: Night at Royal Albert Hall: Complete Reunion Show
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Release Date: 2002-08-13
Media: Audio CD
Tracks: 1: The Price Of Love 2: Walk Right Back 3: Claudette 4: Crying In The Rain 5: Love Is Strange 6: Medley: Take A Message To Mary/Maybe Tomorrow/I Wonder If I Care As Much 7: When Will I Be Loved 8: Bird Dog 9: Medley: Devoted To You/Ebony Eyes/Love Hurts 10: Barbara Allen 11: Lightning Express 12: Put My Little Shoes Away 13: Long Time Gone 14: Down In The Willow Garden 15: Step It Up & Go 16: Bonus Track 1 17: Bonus Track 2 18: Bonus Track 3 19: Bonus Track 4 20: Cathy's Clown 21: Gone, Gone, Gone 22: You Send Me 23: So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) 24: Blues (Stay Away From Me) 25: Bye Bye Love 26: All I Have To Do Is Dream 27: Wake Up Little Susie 28: ('Til) I Kissed You 29: Temptation 30: Be-Bop-A-Lula 31: Lucille 32: Let It Be Me 33: Good Golly Miss Molly
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Live CD With Gaps Between Songs For a live CD this is frustrating. At the the end of each song the sound fades out and there is a gap and then the sound fades in. The sound level is not the greatest either. I should have gone with the highlights CD.
4.5 = 5 stars
A great, historic concert, which became a great video, and a great double album, which became. . . . the CD we discuss right here. The concert was a sensational success, most notably for bringing back the first draft Hall of Famers with a Top 200 placement. . followed by two more charting albums!.
With an intercontinnetal contingent led by Dave Edmunds, you know there are gonna be no spaced out tributes to their imitators.
The "Complete" package includes many previously unreleased "old-timey" Country Folk numbers: just Phil & Don vocals and guitars. These wonderful mountain chants, we can fully appreciate their unparralelled two-part harmony - the full band and Don are mixed well, but Phil is more of a background singervthan a harmonist on the classics like "Walk Right Back" and "When Will I Be Loved?".
The novice can also enjoy hearing, in full swing, the act that influenced groups like America, the Beatles, the Byrds. . . now moving on to the "C"s.
1983 Makeup Concert
Ten years later a reconciliation took place resulting with this concert in London's Royal Albert Hall. The 1973 violent breakup of the Everly Brothers is well documented. The concert was taped and originally released on VHS. (I bought a copy when it came out. It's nice to see Amazon offering the audio version as my VHS tape has long since worn out. )
Phil and Don enjoyed a strong British following throughout their careers making the Royal Albert Hall a natural place for them to reunite. Their voices and harmonies were still in good form and the crowd was appreciative. Traditional Everly Brothers fans will enjoy this double CD. Others may be a bit put off by some of their less known and more traditional songs.
You can see a complete list of all Everly Brothers discography, or go back to the Everly Brothers tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.