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Article: Harmony remains key to performing for Everly Brothers.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- August 19, 2000
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The Everly Brothers never rehearse. Though the duo has written some of the best-loved songs of rock's golden era, they never compose nowadays. The brothers haven't made an album since the '80s and are not likely to enter a recording studio again.
What Don and Phil Everly manage to do, though, is quite enough: They still sing beautifully.
"We still even sing in the same keys," said Phil Everly, 61, from his Tennessee home, his voice sounding young, gentle and twangy. "We have a prideful attitude. If we weren't doing it well, we'd just stay home."
When asked about creating new Everly material, Phil said, flatly, "We have no interest in it."
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