Songs Our Daddy Taught Us is the second album by close harmony

Close harmony

Close harmony is an arrangement of the notes of chords within a narrow range. It is different from open harmony or voicing in that it uses each part on the closest harmonizing note , while the open voicing uses a broader pitch array expanding the harmonic range past the octave...

 rock and roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

 duo The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing...

, released in 1958

1958 in music

-Events:*February - 45,000 peoplein one week watch performances of "rokabirī" music by Japanese singers at the first Nichigeki Western Carnival....

. Originally released on Cadence Records

Cadence Records

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, the album has been re-released on LP and CD many times, primarily by Rhino and EMI

EMI

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. Music journalist Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger

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 notes that the album of traditional music, released at the peak of the duo's commercial success as a rock and roll act, was unexpected and "ahead of its time". Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, who awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars, noted that not even Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

 "had the nerve to do an album as rootsy " as this one.

Track listing

1. "Roving Gambler" (traditional
   Traditional music
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   ) – 3:41
2. "Down in the Willow Garden
   Down in the Willow Garden
   "Down in the Willow Garden", also known as "Rose Connelly" is a traditional Appalachian murder ballad about a man facing the gallows for the murder of his lover: he gave her poisoned wine, stabbed her, and threw her in a river. It originated in the 19th century, probably in Ireland, before becoming...
   
   " (Charlie Monroe
   Charlie Monroe
   Charlie Monroe was an American country and bluegrass music guitarist.-Biography:Monroe was born on his family's farm in Rosine, Kentucky; he was the older brother of the mandolin player Bill Monroe. His sister Bertha also played guitar, and brother Birch, fiddle...
   
   , traditional) – 3:04
3. "Long Time Gone" (Frank Hartford, Tex Ritter
   Tex Ritter
   Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...
   
   , traditional) – 2:26
4. "Lightning Express" (Bradley Kincaid
   Bradley Kincaid
   William Bradley Kincaid was an American folk singer and radio entertainer.He was born in Point Level, Garrard County, Kentucky but built a music career in the northern states. His first radio appearance came in 1926 when he performed on the National Barn Dance show on WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois...
   
   ) – 4:53
5. "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" (Gene Autry
   Gene Autry
   Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
   
   , Jimmy Long) – 3:09
6. "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?" (traditional) – 2:41
7. "Barbara Allen" (traditional, Susan Urban) – 4:41
8. "Oh So Many Years" (Frankie Bailes) – 2:37
9. "I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" (Karl Davis, Harty Taylor) – 3:38
10. "Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair)" (Bob Miller) – 3:01
11. "Kentucky" (Karl Davis) – 3:10
12. "Put My Little Shoes Away" (Don Everly, Phil Everly, traditional) – 3:21

Personnel

• Don Everly — guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Phil Everly — guitar, vocals