Sunset Lake, Foxboro, MA
Fall 2008
Welcome
I recently completed my PhD in musicology at Boston University. My main area of research was vocal duos in popular music, focusing specifically on the Everly Brothers, the roots and sources of their style, and their influence on later artists such as the Beatles.
I developed this site as a repository of information I collected about the Everly Brothers and vocal duos in other areas of American popular and vernacular music, particularly in musical theater (from minstrelsy to Broadway) and in country music.
If you are a fan of the Everly Brothers or are familiar with their work, please consider taking my survey. Many thanks to those of you who already have. Feel free to pass the link along to anyone you think might be interested.
Latest updates:
Monday, January 25, 2010: Added a word cloud of the words used in the Cadence singles.
Friday, January 22, 2010: Updated the top country hits list to span 1955 to 1960 with links to YouTube playlists. Also added a list of pop hits from 1955 to 1957 but without any video links yet.
Monday, January 18, 2010: Added links to Hank Garland and RCA studio descriptions in Everly Brothers links file.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009: I added links to a forum in Germany and one for Ray Edenton in the Everly Brothers links file.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009: I added a link to Cadence information in the Everly Brothers links file.
Friday, November 5, 2009: I added a list of the top country hits from 1955-1957 with links to YouTube playlists.
Thursday, October 15, 2009: I created a survey about the Everly Brothers, hoping to get some fan reactions.
Thursday, July 9, 2009: I've been adding links slowly over the last couple of months.
Thursday, April 9, 2009: Added a key and tempo analysis table of the singles released by Cadence.
Thursday, April 2, 2009: Added more items to the bibliography.
Friday, March 27, 2009: I started adding some links to sites about the Everly Brothers.
