http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/01/the-everly-brothers-all-i-have-to-do-is-dreamclaudette/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:32:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/01/the-everly-brothers-all-i-have-to-do-is-dreamclaudette/#comment-44280 Kenneth Wright Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:18:19 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/01/the-everly-brothers-all-i-have-to-do-is-dreamclaudette/#comment-44280 Was this the first hit record with a volume-pedal lead guitar part? Chet Atkins played it on both versions (the Cadence original and the re-recording for RCA), but it's the first that's so absolutely swooningly blissful. The Everlys are much under-rated, in the sense that everyone likes them but no one loves them madly, yet their 10 years of hits included very few clunkers, and they modernised their sound far more effectively than most of the Old Testament rockers left behind by the Beat Boom. Maybe it's because the melodramatic arrangements of so many of their best songs, eg Crying In The Rain and Ferris Wheel, sound a shade corny to ironic, post-modern ears. Was this the first hit record with a volume-pedal lead guitar part? Chet Atkins played it on both versions (the Cadence original and the re-recording for RCA), but it’s the first that’s so absolutely swooningly blissful. The Everlys are much under-rated, in the sense that everyone likes them but no one loves them madly, yet their 10 years of hits included very few clunkers, and they modernised their sound far more effectively than most of the Old Testament rockers left behind by the Beat Boom. Maybe it’s because the melodramatic arrangements of so many of their best songs, eg Crying In The Rain and Ferris Wheel, sound a shade corny to ironic, post-modern ears.

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