For those unaware, harmonizing folk duo The Brother Brothers are used to hearing Everly Brothers comparisons, but even Phil and Don couldn’t beat the sound of siblings Adam and David Moss, who share identical DNA.

The twins started weaving their voices together before they hit first grade, learning by singing along to the Everlys, the Beatles and other artists they found in their dad’s record collection.

On their new album, Cover to Cover, the Brother Brothers pay homage to those early influences and other favorite songwriters with unique arrangements of both beloved classics and songs they want more people to hear.

Among their eclectic picks are notable musicians such as Tom T. Hall, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Earl Keen, Richard Thompson, Judee Sill, and amongst others, Tom Waits.

Fiddler/violinist Adam and cello player/guitarist David also called on special friends, from singer/mandolinist Sarah Jarosz to Lake Street Dive vocalist Rachael Price — who sings with her sister, Emily, making this effort even more of a family affair.

1. That’s How I Got To Memphis
2. These Days
3. You Can Close Your Eyes (feat. Sarah Jarosz)
4. If You Ain’t Got Love
5. There’s A Rugged Road
6. I Will
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
8. Feelin’ Good Again
9. Waltzing’s For Dreamers
10. High Sierra
11. Blue Virginia Blues
12. Flower’s Grave

This organically cultured, and wholly heartfelt new album opens on the free flowing melodies of Tom T. Hall’s That’s How I Got To Memphis and the quietly rhythmic lyrics that deal with loss and regret within Jackson Browne’s These Days and follows those up with the harmonious secular hymn You Can Close Your Eyes (by James Taylor, here featuring Sarah Jarosz), the gently rambunctious If You Ain’t Got Love and then comes the lush frontier-imbued ambiance of Judee Sill’s There’s A Rugged Road and the short, but sweet ode to declaring eternal love within The Beatles’ I Will (which holds special significance, because they created their own harmonies over the solo-vocal original when they were six).

Next up is one of my own personal favorites from this new album, the melodically themed Hoagy Carmichael track I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) and the upbeat homecoming anthem from Robert Earl Keen of Feelin’ Good Again and they are in turn backed by the Americana folk of Richard Thompson’s Waltzing’s For Dreamers, the aching Harley Allen-written High Sierra, the album rounding out on the banjo-tastic Blue Virginia Blues (by Larry Sparks), closing on the ornately sculptured semblance of finding joy in hope within the profound Tom Waits track Flower’s Grave.

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