Blood harmony : the Everly Brothers story
(2025)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW BIOGRAPHY/EVERLY

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Biography & Memoir NEW BIOGRAPHY/EVERLY Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Da Capo : Hachette Book Group, 2025
©2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780306831737, 0306831732 :, 0306831732, 9780306831737 CIPO000234718
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

South by Midwest: the Everly family 1929-1952 -- Give me a (country) future 1953-1952 -- The Everlys and the Bryants -- Watching them rolling 1957-1959 -- The heights 1959-1961 -- Hitting the wall 1961-1962 -- The trying time 1963-1967 -- Relevant again: country rock 1968-1970 -- To the breaking point 1970-1973 -- Don 1973-1982 -- Phil 1973-1982 -- Reunion 1983-1984 -- Back at it 1984-1988 -- The home stretch 1988-2000 -- Another century 2001-2021

"The definitive biography of the Everly Brothers, one of the greatest and most influential acts in popular music history, based on dozens of exclusive and archival interviews, as well as long-lost global reporting. In between the Elvis years and the rise of the Beatles, there was no bigger act than The Everly Brothers. From 1957-1962, they were among the highest selling pop acts in the U.S. In that time, they developed their own brand of rock 'n' roll and gentle pop balladry that leaned heavily on older, close harmony styles of country music singing. "Wake Up, Little Susie," "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Cathy's Clown," "Let it Be Me," -- their hits were legion and their sweet and sour Appalachian-style harmonies influenced everyone from The Beatles to Simon and Garfunkel to the Beach Boys to Crosby, Stills, and Nash. The Everly Brothers--Don and Phil--are inducted members of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame, and progenitors of the hybrid Americana roots music format. Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story is the first biography that's focused on the dramatic, complicated relationship of these two famous and strikingly talented brothers, and explores how the evolution of their relationship played out in the much-loved music they created--through some sixty years of performing. Their story is the story of American music, from their rural Kentucky origins to massive international fame, falling out of fashion in the wake of the rise of rock bands and singer-songwriters, and their many comebacks. Blood Harmony is a fitting ode to the brothers who made a huge impact on the modern music scene, celebrating how their creative "blood harmony" evolved to become an entry point into country music for millions around the world." --Amazon