Inside Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones' 'Songs Our Daddy Taught Us' — rollingstone.com

In 1958, the Everly Brothers interrupted a two-year run of hit singles, including "Bye-Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie," to record a homage to their Tennessee roots, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us – a dozen folk tunes and vintage country laments done with just acoustic guitars and the siblings' precise, keening harmonies. Two years ago, Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong "stumbled upon" that album, as he puts it. "I thought, 'Man, what made them want to make this record?'" he says. "It seemed so cryptic that these guys would be doing songs about death, being in jail and lost love.

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