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Everly Brothers – Tribute By The Gunasekera Brothers   Today we mark a sad day in history of music in my lifetime. Don Everly, of harmonizing rock ‘n’ roll pioneers the Everly Brothers, died at 84. Isaac Donald Everly was born Feb. 1, 1937, and shared a first name with his formidable father, “Ike” Everly. Ike was a coal miner in Brownie, Ky., and Don was born in Brownie’s coal camp. Ike also was a guitar player, taught by Arnold Schultz, the Black musician who taught Bill Monroe. And when the coal was gone, Ike moved the family to Chicago in the late 1930s in search of a career in music. ...