The Henry Girls at home with harmonies

If proof were needed of the long shadow cast by the Everly Brothers, consider the sound of Donegal’s musical siblings: The Henry Girls.

The recent passing of the younger Everly, Phil, may have caused mourning in the town of Malin and the McLaughlin sisters may have chosen to play under their grandfather’s surname rather than their own, but the fundamental debt to the Everlys remains.

“I suppose we sort of got the music of the Everly Brothers second-hand because we heard it all through our mother and her sister.