Musically, nothing comes close to defining the word harmony than the work of The Everly Brothers. Phil and Don Everly are most famous for their smooth harmonies based on parallel thirds. The only way to hear the perfection created by this technique is on a vinyl album. 180 Gram Records has opened up the cadence records vault to reissue a limited edition set of those influential Everly Brothers albums on pristine virgin vinyl. 

Without getting into the math and science, the most pleasing sound to the human ear comes from blending the opposing forces of consonance and dissonance along analog sound waves. The only way for the ear to capture that beauty is by decoding it from an analog vinyl album. In the 1950's. Cadence Records engineered the sound exactly the way the duo performed it in the studio. During the record manufacturing process, each uninterrupted sound wave was etched into each groove allowing those legendary voices to be heard in the purest form possible. 


There is no aspect of the music business that brothers Phil and Don Everly did not influence. As young children, they formed a group with their parents which had significant impact on bringing the rock and roll element to close harmonies sung by family groups which were extremely popular within country music. Their vocal elements transferred to the Louvins and the Delmores, their country counterparts. Later, families such as the Bee Gees and the Osmonds incorporated the vocal structure.

The Everly Brothers albums offered by 180 gram records include all of the 50's hits such as "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie" found on They're Off And Rolling and three other limited reissues. These hits provided the vocal components essential in developing the basis for rock and roll newcomers of the 1960s. The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Simon and Garfunkel all took advantage of the methods used by the duo in creating their masterpieces.

If there is any element of a musical composition that needs to be heard on a vinyl album it is vocal harmony. No matter how tight and effective digital transfer may sound to the casual listener or seem less intrusive by a tech-pop listener, the perfection of the close harmony captured in the 1950s by Cadence Records before the brothers left for a new label in the 60's has not been heard too often since. 

180 Gram Records was honored to be given the chance to reissue these records the way they were meant to be heard before being returned to the vault. Seize the opportunity to own these exact replicas including all of the original cover artwork. The Everly Brothers albums recorded at the height of their career should be part of every audiophile's collection.