#106
May 5 1984
The Everly Brothers
EB84
2.25 out of 5
This is all very pleasant but if Dave Edmunds proves anything on his own records or his work here it’s that this sound can’t be updated with production. It benefits from being stripped down. Lush instrumentation doesn’t help the music, in fact it drags it down. “The Story of Me” is a prime example of this overtaxed, over produced mess.
The boys sound great, but would they ever not?
Jeff Lynne and the gang will make this sound sound fresh with the Traveling Wilburys and I am left to wonder what the Everly might have brought to that affair. Truth be told, they would have benefitted from the association more than the reverse. (After I wrote this I read the liner notes to discover that the song that inspired that sentence was, indeed, written by Lynne.
It should be noted that their version of “Lay Lady Lay” is absolutely terrible and not suited to whatever this bloated sound is they are committed to.
This is a disposable retro rock record. Better than that Neil Young nostalgia garbage, but not by all that much.
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