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".
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 2:42 am
by Kevin Davis
Surprised by how good those sound.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 3:00 am
by Jorge
Billie Joe Armstrong is actually a pretty decent singer.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 3:06 am
by psychobain
I was surprised also, sounds like a good LP.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 3:30 am
by Kevin Davis
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).
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 3:36 am
by Malloy
huh
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 3:44 am
by Kevin Davis
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.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 4:10 am
by spike
it's interesting partly because norah's voice is the more masculine sounding one.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 6:04 am
by Norah
Kevin Davis wrote:Surprised by how good those sound.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 1:39 pm
by gems and rhinestones
Those were horrible. They sound like songs recorded so actors can lip sync over them for some bio film. Boring.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 2:08 pm
by McParadigm
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.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 2:38 pm
by bada
I agree with all posted sentiments here.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 2:40 pm
by lowlight79
Wow, I downloaded this to just hear it. it was decent listen.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 3:38 pm
by Kevin Davis
McParadigm wrote:anything other than modern production to establish them as separate from the original.
I'm assuming you mean besides the fact that the Everly Brothers were two dudes and this, despite above-cited accusations, is a male/female duet?
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 7:39 pm
by Blaine Ryan
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.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 7:47 pm
by harmless
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.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 8:06 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
lowlight79 wrote:Wow, I downloaded this to just hear it.
That's usually why I download most of my music.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 8:16 pm
by Jorge
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)
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 8:45 pm
by Blaine Ryan
theplatypus wrote:
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)
Decent cover.
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Posted: Tue November 19, 2013 10:56 pm
by Self
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
lowlight79 wrote:Wow, I downloaded this to just hear it.
