Song of the Day 5/18: The Everly Brothers, “Gone Gone Gone”

Colorado Congressclown Lauren Boebert has been demonstrating those Republican family values again, this time by serving her husband with divorce papers. He reportedly didn’t take it well; the process server who delivered them said he sicced the dogs on him.

I’m not sure if Don and Phil Everly wrote this about a romance or their own tetchy relationship. It was released in 1964, a few years after their heyday, when the rock ‘n’ roll pioneers already were setting the template for bickering brother acts. They broke up in 1973 and got back together 10 years later, but they were estranged when Phil died in 2014. Don passed away in 2021.

The song got more exposure decades later when producer T-Bone Burnett had Alison Krauss and Robert Plant cover it on their award-winning 2007 LP “Raising Sand.”