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Night at Royal Albert Hall: Complete Reunion Show

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A great, historic concert, which became a great video, and a great double album, which became.....the CD we discuss right here. The concert was a sensational success, most notably for bringing back the first draft Hall of Famers with a Top 200 placement..followed by two more charting albums!.
With an intercontinnetal contingent led by Dave Edmunds, you know there are gonna be no spaced out tributes to their imitators.
The "Complete" package includes many previously unreleased "old-timey" Country Folk numbers: just Phil & Don vocals and guitars. These wonderful mountain chants, we can fully appreciate their unparralelled two-part harmony - the full band and Don are mixed well, but Phil is more of a background singervthan a harmonist on the classics like "Walk Right Back" and "When Will I Be Loved?".
The novice can also enjoy hearing, in full swing, the act that influenced groups like America, the Beatles, the Byrds...now moving on to the "C"s.......

The 1973 violent breakup of the Everly Brothers is well documented. Ten years later a reconciliation took place resulting with this concert in London's Royal Albert Hall. The concert was taped and originally released on VHS. (I bought a copy when it came out. It's nice to see Amazon offering the audio version as my VHS tape has long since worn out.)

Phil and Don enjoyed a strong British following throughout their careers making the Royal Albert Hall a natural place for them to reunite. Their voices and harmonies were still in good form and the crowd was appreciative. Traditional Everly Brothers fans will enjoy this double CD. Others may be a bit put off by some of their less known and more traditional songs.

At the the end of each song the sound fades out and there is a gap and then the sound fades in. For a live CD this is frustrating. The sound level is not the greatest either. I should have gone with the highlights CD.