Pass the Chicken & Listen

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Pass the Chicken & Listen
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Studio album by
The Everly Brothers
Released1972
RecordedJuly 24–27, 1972
Studio RCA Studio B, Nashville
Genre Country [1]
Length34:56
Label RCA
Producer Chet Atkins
The Everly Brothers chronology
Stories We Could Tell
(1972)
Pass the Chicken & Listen
(1972)
The New Album
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pass the Chicken & Listen is an album by The Everly Brothers, released in 1972. It was the last studio recording the brothers made for over 10 years.

Contents

It was re-released on CD by One Way Records in 1997. In 2014 it was reissued as a twofer CD with Stories We Could Tell by Morello Records.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Lay It Down" (Gene Thomas) – 3:18
  2. "Husbands and Wives" (Roger Miller) – 2:23
  3. "Woman Don't You Try to Tie Me Down" (Joe Allen) – 4:01
  4. "Sweet Memories" (Mickey Newbury) – 2:55
  5. "Ladies Love Outlaws" (Lee Clayton) – 3:13
  6. "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 2:01

Side two

  1. "Watchin' It Go" (Gene Thomas) – 2:26
  2. "Paradise" (John Prine) – 3:37
  3. "Somebody Nobody Knows" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:37
  4. "Good Hearted Woman" (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson) – 2:34
  5. "A Nickel for the Fiddler" (Guy Clark) – 2:24
  6. "Rocky Top" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:53

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 "Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2022-11-26. Pass the Chicken & Listen often feels like an effort to reintroduce the Everlys as a country act