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Catherine Sinow's avatar

This is the most niche thing I have ever seen this newsletter publish. And THAT is saying something.

Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

You had the previous niche-ness record

Catherine Sinow's avatar

Okay but for what article? All of them?

Fran Mason's avatar

Apparently Dan Aykroyd wrote a whole back story about how Jake and Elwood came to be "brothers."

John Seal's avatar

And the tradition continued: The Cochran Brothers, Eddie and Hank, shared a last name but were unrelated. As, of course, were The Righteous Brothers and The Walker Brothers a bit later on...

Bayesian Barn Dance's avatar

Excellent. The Statler Brothers did indeed have two brothers in it, but the act’s surname, of course, was taken from a brand of kleenex tissue.

Alex White's avatar

Really puts a fine point on the fact that Jack White, calling his ex-wife his sister in White Stripes interviews, has the finest taste in rock right now

Bayesian Barn Dance's avatar

I looked, incidentally, for fake sisters acts in the early country corpus, but the data were too meager and the sisters too honest (scant “fake sisters” acts) to provide a useful sample!

Alex White's avatar

You're doing the Lord's work!