SONGS OUR FATHER NEVER TAUGHT US: The...

SONGS OUR FATHER NEVER TAUGHT US: The Everly Brothers have assembled an intriguing group of songs for their third post-reunion album, “Born Yesterday.” Due next month, the LP includes a version of local country-punk favorite Rank and File’s “Amanda Ruth,” for which writers Chip and Tony Kinman wrote new lyrics. Also on the Dave Edmunds-produced collection is “Why Worry,” a Mark Knopfler song from the current Dire Straits album, and “Abandoned Love,” a circa-1975 Bob Dylan song that Don Everly picked while auditioning unreleased Dylan tracks. The song was unreleased when Everly first heard it, but it isn’t anymore. As it turns out, “Abandoned Love” has since been released on Dylan’s new “Biograph” anthology.

Incidentally, if you think the five records and 53 songs that make up “Biograph” constitute a lot of material, the hot new item among Dylan collectors is “Ten of Swords,” a 10-record, 137-song collection of entirely unreleased material that’s so detailed it only covers the years 1961-66. Of course, the big problem with the record is that it’s illegal--a bootleg from live tracks and studio outtakes that lack the fidelity of official releases.

And putting out such bootlegs is a dangerous business. In the stiffest such sentence ever handed out, an East Coast bootlegger was just sentenced to up to eight years in prison and given a $41,000 fine for releasing unauthorized records by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen (who’s the subject of a recent, illicit 20-record set), and, yes, Bob Dylan.