The Everly Brothers ”Stories We Could Tell” 1972


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	The Everly Brothers "Stories We Could Tell" 1972 Label: RCA Tracks: 1. All We Really Want to Do (B. Bramlett, D. Bramlett) 2. Breakdown (K. Kristofferson) 3. Green River (D. Everly, P. Everly) 4. Mandolin Wind (R. Stewart) 5. Up in Mabel's Room (P. Everly, T. Slater) 6. Del Rio Dan (D. Lubahn, H. Beckwith) 7. Ridin' High (D. Linde) 8. Christmas Eve Can Kill You (D. Linde) 9. Three-Armed Poker Playin' River Rat (D. Linde) 10.I'm Tired of Singing My Song in Las Vegas (D. Linde) 11.The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (J. Winchester) 12.Stories We Could Tell (J. Sebastian) Credits: John Barbata - Drums Barry Beckett - Keyboards George Bohannon - Brass Bonnie Bramlett - Vocals Delaney Bramlett - Guitar, Vocals Ry Cooder - Slide Guitar David Crosby - Vocals Buddy Emmons - Slide Guitar Chris Ethridge - Bass Don Everly - Guitar, Vocals Phil Everly - Guitar, Vocals Michael Fontara - Keyboards Jim Gordon – Drums Jimmie Haskell - String Arrangements Thomas "Snake" Johnson - Brass Jeff Kent - Guitar, Vocals Russ Kunkel - Drums Dennis Linde - Guitar, Keyboards Doug Lubahn - Vocals Jerry McGee - Slide Guitar Geoff Muldaur - Guitar Graham Nash – Vocals Spooner Oldham - Keyboards Wayne Perkins - Guitar John Sebastian - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals Waddy Wachtel – Guitar Danny Weis - Guitar Clarence White - Guitar Warren Zevon - Keyboards Paul Rothchild - Producer More Everly Brothers: "Heartaches and Harmonies" 1994 Outside Links: Everly Brothers Fan Club Everly Brothers "Stories We Could Tell" at Amazon.com Everly Brothers Tour 1972 Band Members: Don Everly - Guitar, Vocals Phil Everly - Guitar, Vocals Warren Zevon - Piano, Musical Director Waddy Wachtel - Guitar Bob Knigge - Bass Gene Gunnels - Drums “Session pro Waddy Wachtel, who’d been asked to join the Everlys’ touring band by then-bandleader Warren Zevon, remembers a slightly more upbeat ending to the Everlys’ first era. 'When I took the job,' he recalls, 'the guitar incident had already happened and people were telling me, "Look, don’t try to get them together, because they hate each other. Just don’t try to mix them up." Within a week, we had the both of them up in our hotel room every night after the show, singing and playing. I’m sitting there, and it’s the Everly Brothers in my room, and it’s the most incredible sound you’ve ever heard in your life. That’s when Donald showed me the open-G intro to "Bye Bye Love." I’ll never forget that. It was like somebody slapped me in the face with a wet towel. On stage we’d been doing the songs all slick and wrong, and I hated it. So I asked him if he’d let me teach the band the right way to play the songs, and he agreed. And that’s how the tour ended.' - Rock Foundations: The Everly Brothers by Dave Simons (Acoustic Guitar magazine, August 2000, No. 92) Source article ------------ MUSICIAN [Magazine]: What sort of gigs did you play with the Everly Brothers? [Warren] ZEVON: Well, that was what was real strange. They played a sold-out gig in Albert Hall, and it'd be just like A Hard Day's Night. They'd send us out one exit to be trampled, so they could get out to their limo through another exit. And then a week later we'd be in an oyster bar in North Carolina playing to three people. And the best thing that I learned from them, and always admired them for, was that they always sang the same, which was as well as they could, which was incredibly good. We had chills all the time; I'm sure Waddy would tell you the same thing. We were real proud to play those songs every night. Because they're great oldies, and they sang them as well as they could. That was real impressive. They didn't get along with each other, and that was real understandable. And I stopped feeling bad about not having made it before I was twenty, from seeing that you didn't really have anywhere to go. The saddest part is that individually they still sing better than anyone else, except maybe dead Elvis- they really do, each individually- but I don't know, their name is Everly Brothers. People are used to the cake with the frosting, and they're reluctant to give an ear to half the recipe. The other great but sad part is that they're the kind of guys who would do the set and then go back to their rooms and play their guitars all night. ... MUSICIAN: Even before thinking of yourself as a songwriter? ZEVON: I thought of myself as a composer first. But, yeah, I've always been coming up with kind of circuitous arguments about being a songwriter. "No, I'm not a songwriter, I'm a composer who occasionally writes lyrics and sets his liner notes to music- which is all bullshit too, I realized. And I realize now that I really am a front man, and that Waddy is a much better bandleader. And that kind of happened from the first time Waddy and I worked together in the Everly Brothers. I was the bandleader, but when the four of us started working together it was evident that Waddy was so gifted at it that, hell, they didn't need a piano player. ... -Musician Magazine - circa 1982 - Warren Zevon Interview Source article Portions of the article at the Waddy Wachtel web site \| Cowsills 'II X II' \| Everly Brothers \| Curt Boettcher \| Buckingham Nicks \| Lambert & Nuttycombe \| Dory Previn \| Judi Pulver \| Allan Taylor \| Waddy Wachtel single \| Atlee Yeager \| Bridey Murphy \| Jorge Calderon \| Fleetwood Mac \| Kenny Rankin \| Splinter \| John Stewart \| Maxine Sellers \| Guthrie Thomas \| Nickey Barclay \| Barbi Benton \| Jackson Browne \| Michael Dinner \| Dunn and Rubini \| Andrew Gold \| Arlo Guthrie \| Peter Ivers \| Carole King \| Maria Muldaur \| Allan Rich \| Robbin Thompson \| John Reid \| Linda Ronstadt \| Tom Snow \| J. D. 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