01. Roving Gambler (4:10)
02. Long Time Gone (3:30)
03. Lightning Express (5:02)
04. Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (3:15)
05. Down in the Willow Garden (4:34)
06. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (2:57)
07. Oh So Many Years (3:06)
08. Barbara Allen (4:49)
09. Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair) (3:02)
10. I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail (4:21)
11. Kentucky (3:26)
12. Put My Little Shoes Away (3:28)
Foreverly is an upcoming album by Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman of punk rock band Green Day, and jazz/pop singer-songwriter Norah Jones. It will be released on November 25, 2013 through Reprise Records. Foreverly is a collection of traditional songs, and is a reinterpretation of the 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us by The Everly Brothers. It is promoted by the lead single "Long Time Gone".
Sometimes I wanna drive around and find you
And act like it's a random thing
It doesn't really sound like either singer--the collective voice here is something altogether different than just two familiar voices harmonizing, which makes it feel like its own thing rather than just a novelty project by two people who generally sing different types of music (Jones less so, but still).
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I intend to buy this if only for the novelty of being able to tell people that I bought not one but two albums of Everly Brothers covers by male/female singing duos in the same year.
gems and rhinestones wrote:They sound like songs recorded so actors can lip sync over them for some bio film. Boring.
That's about right. They were very personality-light. Just straight copies, with no added interpretation or anything other than modern production to establish them as separate from the original. A lot of heavy-handed genre mimicry going on in the playing, too, with an absence of the subtlety or touch that serves to separate the decent from the great in a formula-structured genre like this.
Count me in the "pleasantly surprised" camp. I think Green Day's always had some '50's and '60's pop and rockabilly elements in their sound, so I'm not shocked to learn that Billie Joe is an Everly Brothers fan (I would also not be shocked to learn that he's an Elvis Costello fan, incidentally), but I am taken aback by his performance here. He sings a lot of Green Day songs with this kind of bratty sneer that has a tendency to grate on me, and I guess that's more or less what I expected on these songs, but this is something different and a lot more tuneful. Nice to learn his range is broader than it initially appears.
And Norah Jones can sing anything. It's probably uncool to say, but I really like all of her albums.
Yeah, these sound nice. Any accusations of them being 'genre copies' are, like, fair enough. But they're genre standards; I'd feel less inclined to bother listening if they'd 'made these songs their own', and totally erased everything charming about the genre in the process. I'm not even sure unique character or idiosyncrasy was, or is, the point.
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Blaine Ryan wrote: I'm not shocked to learn that Billie Joe is an Everly Brothers fan (I would also not be shocked to learn that he's an Elvis Costello fan, incidentally)
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Blaine Ryan wrote: I'm not shocked to learn that Billie Joe is an Everly Brothers fan (I would also not be shocked to learn that he's an Elvis Costello fan, incidentally)
