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@duchess-of-chaos' post on Feuilles-O reminded me of something.

Bridge Over Troubled Water was published on January 26, 1970.

I remember hearing Feullies-O for the first time on some compilation like 20 years ago or something, and there were other demos they cut later, on July 8, 1970. I know those demos were later included on Sounds of Silence releases in 2000s, but I checked on the compilation booklet and that's the date they were recorded, not 1966 but 1970.

The demos I'm talking about are Barbriallen, Roving Gambler and Rose of Aberdeen. The latter was also performed live at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on July 18, 1970 (link has the wrong title, but it's the right song). As we know, they also used to sing That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine and Lightning Express in concerts between 1969 and 1970, not to mention Bye Bye Love, which they covered since 1968 at least.

I've been wondering all these years... were they just having fun, recording those tracks in Summer 1970? Or maybe, just maybe... they were thinking about a potential next album?

Stay with me on this for a while. How to follow the huge success of BOTW? A compilation of cover songs would have taken lots of pressure off of them. And what's better that a homage to the Everly Brothers, and/or to traditional music in general?

This is just a thought of course, but I've been wondering for quite some time... it would've been a marvelous album, imho. They sound great singing these songs, their voices are a perfect match to this kind of music.

What you think about it? Am I being silly, or is it at least a bit fascinating?