Roots (Everly Brothers album)

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Critical reception

Track listing

1. "The Introduction: The Everly Family (1952)" – 1:11
2. "Mama Tried
   Mama Tried (song)
   
   "Mama Tried" is an American country music song written and recorded by Merle Haggard. Released in 1968, the song became one of the cornerstone songs of his career....
   " (Merle Haggard
   Merle Haggard
   
   Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
   ) – 2:18
3. "Less of Me" (Glen Campbell
   Glen Campbell
   
   Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
   ) – 3:03
4. "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" (Jimmie Rodgers
   Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)
   
   Jimmie Rodgers was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"....
   ) – 3:31
5. "I Wonder If I Care as Much" (Everly, Everly) – 2:59
6. "Ventura Boulevard
   Ventura Boulevard
   
   Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real , Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley....
   " (Ron Elliott) – 2:50
7. "Shady Grove
   Shady Grove (song)
   
   Shady Grove is an 18th-century folk song popular in the United States. As it is usually played, the melody uses a Dorian pentatonic scale. Many verses exist, most of them describing the speaker's love for a woman called Shady Grove....
   " (Jackie Ertel, Venecia Everly, P.O. Wandz) – 2:31
8. "Illinois" (Randy Newman
   Randy Newman
   
   Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
   ) – 2:12
9. "Living Too Close to the Ground" (Terry Slater) – 2:16
10. "You Done Me Wrong" (George Jones
    George Jones
    
    George Glenn Jones , is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
    , Ray Price
    Ray Price
    
    Ray Price may refer to:*Ray Price , an American country and western singer*Ray Price , a Zimbabwean cricketer*Ray Price , an Australian rugby league and union footballer...
    ) – 2:16
11. "Turn Around" (Elliott) – 2:47
12. "Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) – 5:18
13. "Montage: Everly Family (1952)/Shady Grove/Kentucky" (Carl Davis
    Carl Davis
    
    Carl Davis Order of the British Empire is an American Conductor and composer who has been living in the UK since 1961.He has made England his home and married English actress Jean Boht....
    , P.O. Wandz) – 2:43

Personnel

Performance

• Don Everly – guitar
  Guitar
  
  The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
  , vocals
  Singing
  
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  
• Phil Everly – guitar, vocals

Production

• Gordon Anderson
  Gordon Anderson
  
  Gordon Anderson may refer to:* Dr Gordon Anderson , author and Secretary-General of the Professors World Peace Academy* Gordon Anderson , former Member of the Australian House of Representatives...
   – executive producer
  Record producer
  
  In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
  
• Frank Bez – photography, cover photo
• Perry Botkin, Jr. – arranger
  Arrangement
  
  In music, an arrangement is either a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet....
  
• Nick DeCaro – string arrangements
• Ron Elliott – arranger
• Lee Herschberg – engineer, mastering
• Bill Inglot – mastering
• John Neil – engineer
• Andrew Sandoval – mastering
• Dave Schultz – mastering
• Mike Shields – engineer
• Ed Thrasher – art direction
• Richie Unterberger
  Richie Unterberger
  
  Richie Unterberger is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.Having worked as a college DJ at WXPN in Philadelphia, he started reviewing records for Op magazine in 1983....
   – liner notes
• Lenny Waronker
  Lenny Waronker
  
  Lenny Waronker is a record producer for Warner Bros. Records....
   – producer, concept
• Andrew Wickham – liner notes, concept

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