{"id":90485,"date":"2015-10-02T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=90485"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:43:09","slug":"close-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/close-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bowlinggreen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bowlinggreen.jpg\" alt=\"bowlinggreen\" width=\"600\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bowlinggreen.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bowlinggreen-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By 1967, the Everly Brothers\u2019 career was on the wane, their many hits a distant memory. Both Don and Phil Everly were addicted to amphetamines, and their relationship was (perhaps not incidentally) fraying. Although some of their later work is great\u2014<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roots_(The_Everly_Brothers_album)\" target=\"_blank\">Roots<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is really beautiful\u2014their glory days were decisively behind them, and it showed. Take\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3-QLh1OKVMg\" target=\"_blank\">Bowling Green<\/a>\u201d\u2014written by their bassist, it was their last song to chart for seventeen years. There are hints of desperation about the generic, sixties-style studio production, with its nods to the ethereal trends of the moment. The lyrics are kind of silly.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And yet, it\u2019s gorgeous. The hook is stirring and unexpected. It\u2019s moving to think of these jaded, exhausted young men singing about where they came from (well, give or take sixty miles.) And, as ever, their harmonies are so angelic as to bring tears to your eyes. You just want to take them in your arms and say,<em>\u00a0<\/em>You don\u2019t need syncopated flute. You don\u2019t need\u00a0Partridge Family\u2013style backing vocals, or Simon and Garfunkel\u2013esque whispering or Turtles-like crescendos or Nehru jackets. <em>You\u2019re the Everly Brothers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review<em>, and the <\/em>Daily<em>\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 1967, the Everly Brothers\u2019 career was on the wane, their many hits a distant memory. Both Don and Phil Everly were addicted to amphetamines, and their relationship was (perhaps not incidentally) fraying. Although some of their later work is great\u2014Roots\u00a0is really beautiful\u2014their glory days were decisively behind them, and it showed. 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