Phil Mongredien 

Billie Joe + Norah: Foreverly – review

Norah Jones and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong skilfully recreate a 1958 Everly Brothers album, writes Phil Mongredien
  
  

Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones
Foreverly, by Billie Joe + Norah (Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones), is a faithful reworking of an Everly Brothers album. Photograph: Marinachavez Photograph: Marinachavez/PR

In 1958, the Everly Brothers released Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, a collection of rootsy ballads and country numbers. Half a century on, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has teamed up with Norah Jones to craft a largely faithful rerecording of the album. While hardly a move into brave new musical pastures, it's not without charm and the use of a female voice puts just enough distance between this and the original, the entwining harmonies recalling Gram Parsons's duets with Emmylou Harris. The highlight comes when Jones takes the lead on Rockin' Alone.

 

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