With the current widespread rise in popularity of Americana music as a genre, now seems a good time to reappraise and re-establish one of the first true Country Rock albums - the 1968 Everly Brothers album ROOTS. This box set presents the build-up story to this landmark album.With an Americana music pedigree born of their Appalachia roots The Everly Brothers ably crossed over from the pop charts to the country music charts during their hit-making heyday. During the mid sixties however they suffered a lean spell for commercial success all the while trying to update their sound. RPM focusses on thefollowing period from November 1966 – November 1968 when the Everlys recorded mostly in Los Angeles rather than Nashville with the duo searching for a musical direction. Eventually achieving a musical cohesiveness with the release of ROOTS.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Blueberry Hill
  • 2. Movin' On
  • 3. Devil's Child
  • 4. Trains and Boats and Planes
  • 5. Sea of Heartbreak
  • 6. Oh, Boy!
  • 7. (I'd Be A) Legend In My Time
  • 8. Let's Go Get Stoned
  • 9. Sticks and Stones
  • 10. The House of the Rising Sun
  • 11. She Never Smiles Anymore
  • 12. Good Golly, Miss Molly
  • 13. Even If I Hold It In My Hand (Hard Luck Story) (Take 2)
  • 14. When Eddie Comes Home
  • 15. Nothing But the Best
  • 16. A Little Bit of Crazy
  • 17. Bowling Green (Demo)

• - 2 -

  • 1. Bowling Green
  • 2. A Voice Within
  • 3. I Don't Want To Love You
  • 4. It's All Over
  • 5. Deliver Me
  • 6. Talking To the Flowers
  • 7. Mary Jane
  • 8. I'm Finding It Rough
  • 9. Do You
  • 10. Somebody Help Me
  • 11. A Whiter Shade of Pale
  • 12. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  • 13. Love of the Common People
  • 14. You're Just What I Was Looking For Today
  • 15. My Elusive Dreams
  • 16. Lord of the Manor
  • 17. Love With Your Heart
  • 18. Love With Your Heart (Vsn 2)
  • 19. It's My Time
  • 20. Empty Boxes
  • 21. Milk Train

• - 3 -

  • 1. The Everly Family (1952)
  • 2. Mama Tried
  • 3. Less of Me
  • 4. T For Texas
  • 5. I Wonder If I Care As Much
  • 6. Ventura Boulevard
  • 7. Shady Grove
  • 8. Illinois
  • 9. Living Too Close To the Ground
  • 10. You Done Me Wrong
  • 11. Turn Around
  • 12. Sing Me Back Home
  • 13. Montage: the Everly Family (1952)/Shady Grove/Kentucky
  • 14. Lady Anne (Vsn 2)
  • 15. Shop Girl
  • 16. Human Race (Mix 1)
  • 17. Omaha
  • 18. Mr Soul (Mix 1)
  • 19. Down In the Bottom (Aka Meet Me In the Bottom) (Mix 1)
  • 20. In the Good Old Days (Mix 1)