Two years ago, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong took a sharp turn away from his band’s sound to record the album Foreverly with Norah Jones.
Foreverly recreated, with only a change in the track order, the Everly Brothers 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us. Filled with traditional songs and music from the Everly’s childhood, it was a very unlikely target for the two singers.
…but it worked.
Unfortunately, schedules from their individual careers prevented the two artists from touring behind the album which is why Wednesday night’s show at the small Bowery Electric in New York. Only about 200 were able to attend, seeing a full recreation of the album along with an encore of Carl Perkin’s Sure to Fall.
The set list:
Main Set
Roving Gambler (from Foreverly, 2013)
Long Time Gone (from Foreverly, 2013)
Lightning Express (from Foreverly, 2013)
Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (from Foreverly, 2013)
Down in the Willow Garden (from Foreverly, 2013)
Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (from Foreverly, 2013)
Oh So Many Years (from Foreverly, 2013)
Barbara Allen (from Foreverly, 2013)
Rockin’ Alone (In an Old Rockin’ Chair) (from Foreverly, 2013)
I’m Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail (from Foreverly, 2013)
Kentucky (from Foreverly, 2013)
Put My Little Shoes Away (from Foreverly, 2013)
Encore
Sure to Fall (In Love With You) (Carl Perkins cover)
