Does Anyone Own a D-60?

[bobouz]

The Everly Bros. Model had only one distinctly different part; the bridge. It was designed to the brother's specifications. The bridge lacks pins, and was designed to increase the guitars sustain while killing some of its volume.
This bridge allowed them a very fast string change when a string broke onstage, and the sustain allowed them to put more effort into their singing than their strumming. Very good for their slow ballads and love songs.
And when they rocked out, they could get really physical with their guitars and their singing wouldn't be over-powered with the forceful strumming's volume.

A number of years later, a fellow who put the unique strumming characteristics of the Everly Brothers model to very good use was Cat Stevens, who took full advantage of the instrument's abilities in both soft and forceful passages - sometimes within the same song, as in Father & Son.

 

[Christopher Cozad]

... it was just the 2 of them and their guitars. All they had was about 2 1/2 minutes of time, and that time would either cement their fame or make their audience drop kick them back to Kentucky, where they would soon be forgotten.
To me, that's like crossing over the Grand Canyon at a narrow spot on a high wire with nothing but a long balance pole. It ain't the distance that scares me, it's the little slip that's terrifying.

You highlight an aspect of performance that is just as significant as having musical skills, that being the mental discipline needed to focus on the performance, rather than the possibilities of making a mistake. Instead of dwelling on what you will lose when you trip up, being gripped with fear to the point your hands are shaking and your voice is squeaking, and then attempting to remember what you read in a book regarding fear management, imagine walking out onto a stage having a calm demeanor born of a lifestyle, background and mindset perhaps more common to another time.