Billie Joe Armstrong, the leader of Green Day and the New York singer Norah Jones will publish next November a joint album that pays tribute to the songbook of the mythical Everly brothers. 'Foreverly' is the name of this album that has taken as its source of inspiration the historical "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" (1958), an album of classic songs of the old genre called "American", and which were reinterpreted, recorded and edited again for The Everly Brothers.
According to the record label Warner Bros. Records, 'Foreverly' was recorded in a total of nine days and has been a work in which Armstrong and Jones have sought to capture that singular beauty contained in the vocal harmonies of the Everly Brothers, creating a true tribute to the classic ballads of the remembered late 1950s album. .
Jones and Armstrong manage to perform these classics of American music, recreating songs like 'Roving gambler', 'Down in the willow garden', 'Long time gone', 'Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet?', and 'Barbara Allen', as well as also country music classics like Gene Autry and Jimmy Long's 'That silver haired daddy of mine' and Karl Davis's 'Kentucky'. Foreverly contains a total of twelve songs and will be released worldwide on November 25. From this week it can be pre-ordered in the iTunes store.
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Source - Billboard
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