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Sunday morning coming down Watching the HBO documentary “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” (trailer below) turned me into a belated Bee Gees fan. Twin brothers Robin and Maurice are prematurely deceased, Robin at age 62 and Maurice at age 53. Youngest brother Andy (a solo artist, not a member of the Bee Gees) died way too soon as well, of an addiction-related ailment at age 30. Only oldest brother Barry Gibb, age 74, survives. The air of mortality hangs over the story of their success like a cloud, but what an incredible story. Even though the curiosity of the documentary is distinctly lim...

Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1 The eldest Bee Gee traveled to Nashville to remake some of his and his siblings' biggest hits with country artists. Even songs that seems like they wouldn’t lend themselves to country arrangements, such as “Jive Talkin’” -- reinvented here as a slow groove with Miranda Lambert and Rival Son’s Jay Buchanan -- work out well. The best tracks blend Barry Gibb’s instantly recognizable tremolo with an equally notable voice, including a shimmering “Run to Me” with Brandi Carlile, a wistful “Too Much Heaven” with Alison Krauss and hi...

Sat 9 Jan 2021 09.00 EST It’s not been tested in a lab, but anecdotal belief holds that sibling harmonies vibrate at particularly sublime frequency. On a Broken Heart, the illuminating Bee Gees documentary released last month, Noel Gallagher and a Jonas Brother reflect wryly on the vicissitudes of being in a band with your brothers, but also on how uncanny the musical entente can be. Imagine, then, being Barry Gibb. Thanks to the munificent quirks of the 20th-century music industry, he has long sat atop vast sierras of cash generated by songwriting. The Bee Gees were screaming-meemie fa...

Rating: Verdict: Classics with a country twist  Elvis Costello once said a great song should be robust enough to be sung in different styles, whether that's on an acoustic guitar or with all the bells and whistles of an orchestra. It's a theory that clearly strikes a chord with Barry Gibb. 'We grew up in a different world,' he says. 'In those days, there was no such thing as genre.' Gibb puts his views into practice on new album Greenfields, taking some of the greatest songs he sang with the Bee Gees and re-recording them as big-ticket duets in a country setting. He made the album in Nashvi...

The collaboration appears on 'Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1', an album featuring a plethora of country and Americana artists.