Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

Infobox Album
Name = Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
Type = studio
Artist = The Everly Brothers


Released = 1958
Recorded =
Genre = rock, close harmony, traditional music
Length =
Label = Cadence
Producer =
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wm09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifqxqt5ldte link]
Last album = "The Everly Brothers"
(1958)Brackett, Nathan. (2004) "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide", 4th ed, Fireside. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. p 287.]
This album = "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"
(1958)
Next album = "The Best of the Everly Brothers"
(1959)

"Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" is the second album by close harmony rock and roll duo The Everly Brothers, released in 1958. Originally released on Cadence Records, the album has been rereleased on LP and CD many times, primarily by Rhino and EMI. Music journalist Richie Unterberger notes that the album of traditional music, released at the peak of the duo's commercial success as a rock and roll act, was unexpected and "ahead of its time". [allmusicguide |id=10:3xfwxqwaldte~T1] "Rolling Stone", who awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars, noted that not even Elvis Presley "had the nerve to do an album as rootsy " as this one.

Track listing

#"Roving Gambler" (traditional) – 3:41
#"Down in the Willow Garden" (Charlie Monroe, traditional) – 3:04
#"Long Time Gone" (Frank Hartford, Tex Ritter, traditional) – 2:26
#"Lightning Express" (Bradley Kincaid) – 4:53
#"That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" (Gene Autry, Jimmy Long) – 3:09
#"Who's Gonna Show Your Pretty Little Feet?" (traditional) – 2:41
#"Barbara Allen" (traditional, Susan Urban) – 4:41
#"Oh So Many Years" (Frankie Bailes) – 2:37
#"I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" (Karl Davis, Harty Taylor) – 3:38
#"Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair)" (Bob Miller) – 3:01
#"Kentucky" (Karl Davis) – 3:10
#"Put My Little Shoes Away" (Don Everly, Phil Everly, traditional) – 3:21

Personnel

*Don Everly — guitar, vocals
*Phil Everly — guitar, vocals

References