Pass the Chicken & Listen

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.

Pass the Chicken & Listen
Studio album by The Everly Brothers
Released	1972
Recorded	July 24–27, 1972
Studio	RCA Studio B, Nashville
Genre	Country[1]
Length	34:56
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
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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

• Don Everly – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Phil Everly – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Chet Atkins – acoustic guitar
• David Briggs – piano
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle, mandolin
• Ralph Gallant – drums
• Weldon Myrick – pedal steel guitar
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – organ, piano
• Hal Rugg – pedal steel guitar
• Steve Schaffer – bass
• Dale Sellers – acoustic guitar, dobro
• Pete Wade – acoustic guitar
• Paul Yandell – acoustic guitar
• Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar, banjo

Production

• Chet Atkins – producer
• David Kershenbaum – production assistant
• Les Ladd – engineer
• Bill Vandervort – engineer

References

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