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1954: Before Rock ’n’ Roll: The original Everly family, pictured here in March, 1954, performed on radio station WROL when it was located on the top floor of the Mechanics Bank building on Gay Street. Phil, barely 15 at the time, is at left. Don, 17, is on guitar. At right are father Ike Everly, on guitar, and mother, Margaret, on stand-up bass. Source: The Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Lawson McGhee Library. Image courtesy of Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, from the Robert Van Winkle collection.