What The Brothers Sang is a lively, lovely album—and diverse to boot.
Not surprisingly, it's the less propulsive numbers that truly resonate on What the Brothers Sang, as Oldham and McCarthy sound less emotionally constricted at a more measured pace
Ultimately, What the Brothers Sang is a tribute to what the brothers sang, not necessarily how they sang it.
It’s a little overlong and occasionally flirts with being a vanity project, but What The Brothers Sang draws great strength from how much Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Dawn McCarthy clearly cherish these songs, and how much pleasure it gives them to share them with us.
The way their voices entwine and breathe life into a legendary act often by-passed by today's music fans makes What the Brothers Sang very worthy of your attention.
Oldham and McCarthy use the catalogue of the Everly Brothers as a starting point, but their album succeeds in creating fresh material from a source that has often served as inspiration in the past.
The album is more a loving revival than a modernization of some of the Everly Brothers’ lesser-known songs.