1957. I remember hunching over the radio, my 11-year-old ears being sucked into the sound of the unka-chunka acoustic-guitar intro of "Bye Bye Love." After that came those voices with traces of Hank Williams' vibrato, the Blue Sky Boys' old-timey duet and the sibling sound that can be achieved only in the presence of similar genetic coding and matching regional accents.
"Who are these guys?" I remember thinking. It was the Everly Brothers, two hugely gifted individuals with the audacity to weld traditional Kentucky harmonies to rock 'n' roll and blast a trail through to the folk rock of the late...
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