- Music
- 21 Nov 13
LISTEN: Norah Jones & Billie Armstrong's album of American classics
In one of the year’s more unlikely hook ups, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones have paid homage to The Everly Brothers’ Songs Our Daddy Taught Us by raiding the great American songbook.
We weren’t sure it’d work – but it does. Rather brilliantly.
"I thought, 'Man, what made them want to make this record?'” the Green Day singer tells Rolling Stone. "It seemed so cryptic that these guys would be doing songs about death, being in jail and lost love. I liked the whole concept, that this was something taught to them, and now it's being taught to me. I thought it would be cool to pass the tradition one more time."