Right-Click to Download    This request is from two guys in Decatur, Illinois who play banjo and guitar and work as a duo.  They needed backing tracks that only included guitar, bass, and drums – simple and uncluttered – I like that.  Of course, you can screw up that simplicity with too much banjo, boys – just sayin’.

They needed an Everly Brothers tune and “Bye, Bye Love” was the first one that came to mind.  ‘Course, I already had this one worked up so that made it easy for me – and these days I’m all about easy.  The song reached number one on the charts in the spring of 1957 and is ranked 210th on Rolling Stones Magazine’s The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time – so I guess that’s reason enough to put it on my list too.  Thanks for the heads-up, Decatur.

The original composition for this song didn’t include the guitar intro.  Don Everly insisted on tacking it on at the beginning to sort of make the song their own since they hadn’t written it.  The logic escapes me here because Chet Atkins played the lead through the whole song – not Don.  Oh, well…

I’m happy to see new entertainers interested in old songs – gives me hope for the future (unless Hillary gets elected -oops, I didn’t say that!)  And easy on the banjo there in Illinois…