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<category>'50s Rock 'n' Roll</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Everly Brothers represent a lot of different things musically. They are the spiritual and literal forefathers of Country Rock, the epitome of Close Harmony singing, the antecedent to the boy band hysteria of today, and the embodiment of every troubled sibling relationship in pop music, from the Louvin Brothers to the Gallagher brothers (Oasis). Phil and Don Everly started out as part of a family act singing on the radio in Iowa, and eventually recorded straight country material that went nowhere. When they hooked up with the husband and wife songwriting team of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, they went straight to the top of the charts with "Bye Bye Love" and a slew of other songs including "All I Have to Do is Dream" and "Wake Up Little Susie." The brothers' career at the top of the charts was over by the early 1960s -- at least in the United States. The strain of a life together took its toll on them and they split up in 1973. They reformed in the 1980s and remain an extremely popular concert attraction at home and abroad. The group was enormously influential on groups including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Hollies.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Dailey &amp; Vincent</title>
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<title>Jim and Jesse</title>
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<title>The Louvin Brothers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Born and raised in Alabama's Appalachian Mountains, Charlie and Ira Louvin were a Close Harmony Brother Act inspired by many of the family-strung Country Folk bands of the 1930s. The Louvins influenced a number of country and Cosmic American Music artists including Emmylou Harris and The Byrds whose cover of the Brothers' "The Christian Life" is now a country cult staple. Charlie's passionate and watery melody tenor voice matched with brother Ira's pristine high tenor inflections so unusually well that the duo could easily weave in and out of folk, Gospel, pop, or hillbilly songs and still leave their signature sound up front. After being rejected nearly ten times, the Louvins were finally invited to join the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 where their fan base snowballed until they disbanded in 1963 to follow separate solo careers. Songs like the lighthearted "Cash on the Barrel Head" as well as the bible thumping "Satan Is Real" have become near standards of the No Depression generation. Ira Louvin died in 1965. He was killed in a car accident in Williamsburg, Missouri. Infamous for the artwork on the cover of their "Satan Is Real" album (featuring Charlie and Ira Louvin in a burning hell running from a hovering cardboard cutout of the devil), the Louvin Brothers sang in harmony like no other Brother Act. Their close-harmonies often birthed a ghostly third harmonic overtone that sounded almost as eerie as their spooky murder ballads. And perhaps their eclectic take on country music was what inspired such other twangy luminaries as Gram Parsons. If listening to the Louvins' blood curdling rendition of "Knoxville Girl" doesn't make your hair stand on end, check yourself into the nearest faith healer and be saved.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Brother Phelps</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:40:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After leaving the Kentucky Headhunters in 1992, Ricky Lee Phelps joined up with a fantastic bass player named Doug (who also happens to be his brother). They named their new project after their preacher father -- perhaps "Sons Of A Preacher Man" was too obvious a moniker. Their sound is raucous New Country (well, as raucous as New Country can get) marked by close harmony vocals somewhat inspired by Don and Phil Everly.]]></description>
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<title>Blue Sky Boys</title>
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<category>Traditional Country</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This hillbilly brother act was a major influence on both the Louvins and the Everly Brothers, playing guitar and mandolin-backed mountain songs with simple harmonies. Their perfectly matched voices blended together with seamless beauty, creating a gut-wrenchingly forlorn sound. With the wonderfully crackling backdrop of '30s and '40s-era recordings, Blue Sky Boys will reduce you to a puddle of tears as they sing about mothers searching for wayward sons and star-crossed lovers driven to murder.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Louvin</title>
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<category>Americana</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Bacon Brothers</title>
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<category>Adult Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever notice how we accept the fact that some musicians can act, but then we have a harder time swallowing an actor turned musician? Well, get over it. Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael can actually write and play some intelligent and cathartic songs. Really! The Bacon Brothers blend a little rustic Tex Mex with some mellow Country-Folk. Warm acoustic guitars intertwine with accordion, brushes on a drum kit, and symphonious far-off vocal harmonies sung between two brothers. The funny thing is, nothing here sounds like any of the songs featured on the soundtrack for <i>Footloose</i>.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Addrisi Brothers</title>
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<category>'50s Rock 'n' Roll</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though best remembered now for their hit of the 1970s, "We've Got to Get It on Again," the brothers' musical career began back in the '50s as a harmonic vocal group. Their songs were as tight and well-crafted as any by the Everly Brothers, but they didn't hit the charts until the '70s.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Lilly Brothers</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Boston based, West Virginia bred Bluegrass act that specialized in close harmony in the style of the Louvin Brothers and Delmore Brothers. Although singer and multi instrumentalist Everett was the mandolin player for Flatt and Scruggs for awhile, he and his brother Michael Burt spent most of their career playing and singing together and were quite popular on the Bluegrass festival circuit in the '70s.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>The Monroe Brothers</title>
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<category>Brother Acts/Close Harmony</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:16:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This was Bill Monroe's original Bluegrass and Traditional Country outfit which he put together with his brothers Charlie and Birch back in 1932. With upfront mandolin leads, deep fiddle swipes, and close harmonies that cut through the rest of the music, the Monroe Brothers had a chemistry that revolutionized how Bluegrass music was played.]]></description>
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<title>The Delmore Brothers</title>
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<category>Brother Acts/Close Harmony</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:16:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Bailey Brothers</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Active in the 1940s and '50s, the Bailey Brothers were a brother duet act that started out as old-timey pop singers but managed to make a name for themselves playing the Bluegrass music on which they were raised. With the characteristically beautiful close harmonies associated with blood-relative singers, expert banjo/guitar playing, and a choice of material that covered ancient mountain songs as well as their own compositions, the Bailey Brothers' recordings are in the same vein as the Louvin Brothers and are considered by many to be just as good.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Sam and Kirk McGee</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:36:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[They were one of the very first close-harmony Brother Acts in country music. The McGee Brothers were also a couple of primary hired members of the Grand Ole Opry, playing with such legends as Bill Monroe and Uncle Dave Macon. Sam and Kirk McGee turned old chain gang railroad songs into beautifully harmonic Traditional Country.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Kalin Twins</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:00:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[These identical twin brothers explored the close-harmony thing. But, unlike many of the Brother Acts of yore, they preferred bubblegum rock 'n' roll numbers to real country music songs.]]></description>
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<title>Allen Brothers</title>
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<category>Early Country</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:54:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Austin and Lee Allen (not to be confused with the saxophone-playing Lee Allen) are the granddaddies of Brother Acts/Close Harmony country music. They were a sensation in the late 1920s, scoring numerous hits with their smooth harmonies and spirited, bluesy proto-Bluegrass, but the duo retired from music by the mid-1930s. By the time of the folk revival of the 1960s and the inevitable "rediscovery" of the Allen Brothers, Austin was already dead and Lee didn't wish to pursue the revival.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>The McCoury Brothers</title>
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<category>Brother Acts/Close Harmony</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bluegrass brethren Del and Jerry McCoury team up for some Traditional Bluegrass and Close Harmony singing. This material was recorded before Del McCoury broke out of his cult status to become the award-winning, unofficial ambassador of Bluegrass. Full of aching, high, lonesome harmonies and instrumental work that reflects the casual virtuosity of those intimately knowledgeable about this unique style of American music.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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