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Charlie Louvin (Digipak) (CD)

By: Charlie Louvin (Artist)

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Charlie Louvin Artist Snapshot:

Until their split in 1963, Charlie Louvin was one half of the popular country duo the Louvin Brothers alongside older brother Ira. Their hits included "Cash on the Barrelhead" and the 1959 country gospel album SATAN IS REAL. Following Ira's 1965 death, Louvin began a solo career, maintaining an impressive balance between the Nashville gentry (regularly appearing on the Grand Ol' Opry) and the renegade alt-country scene. In 2007, at the age of 80, Louvin signed with the alt-country label Tompkins Square Records and released a self-titled album of duets with acolytes like Elvis Costello, Will Oldham and George Jones.

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DISC 1 for Charlie Louvin (Digipak) (CD) Album By Charlie Louvin (Artist)
1   Must You Throw Dirt In My Face - (featuring George Jones)
2   Great Atomic Power - (featuring Jeff Tweedy)
3   Blues Stay Away From Me - (featuring Bobby Bare/Tom T. Hall)
4   Christian Life, The - (featuring Eef Barzelay)
5   When I Stop Dreaming - (featuring Elvis Costello)
6   Waiting For A Train - (featuring George Jones)
7   Kneeling Drunkard's Plea - (featuring Alex McManus)
8   Worried Man Blues - (featuring Bobby Bare/Kurt Wagner)
9   Grave On The Green Hillside - (featuring Tift Merritt/Joy Lynn White)
10   Knoxville Girl - (featuring Will Oldham)
11   Ira
12   My Long Journey Home - (featuring Paul Burch)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.80) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Louvin turns out highly likable collabos with people such as Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy and Will Oldham. Well-penned and dustily tuneful."
Entertainment Weekly (p.98) - "[Featuring] lovely, utterly unpretentious readings of these dozen bluegrass standards, blues, and selections from his own songbook." -- Grade: B+
Uncut (p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]mong the sturdy Louvins/Carter Family/Bill Monroe chestnuts, 'Ira', a tearful elegy to his brother's legacy stands out."
Magnet (p.103) - "[A]t 79 years of age and with his voice taking on a handsome, lacquered husk not unlike that of Dr. Ralph Stanley, Louvin remains the focal point."
Dirty Linen (p.82) - "Louvin sounds great and seems to be having a ball running through a set of Louvin Brothers tunes and classics by the likes of A.P. Carter, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Delmore Brothers."
No Depression (p.111) - "The project positions Louvin as a crucial link between country's foundations and future....It's hard for a murder ballad to get an darker than the matter-of-fact 'Knoxville Girl', or for heartbreak to sound more desolately abject than on 'Must You Throw Dirt On My Face'."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here is subtle beauty here and cuts such as the tender biographical tribute 'Ira'...and 'Grave On The Green Hillside' are a real delight."

Title Note

Recording information: Nashville, Tennessee (2006).

As one half of the Louvin Brothers, Charlie Louvin made country music history in the 1950s with a steady stream of singles that mixed bluegrass, gospel, and Carter Family-like balladry. Alcoholic sibling Ira Louvin went off the rails in the early '60s and died in '65. Charlie's subsequent solo career was aesthetically consistent, but never as high-profile. At the age of 80, he could have been forgiven for resting on his laurels, but he was nevertheless game for a new recording that paired him with old-school country artists as well as alt-rockers who've absorbed his influence.

Nothing could ever replace the unique Ira/Charlie harmonies, and wisely that's not even attempted on the versions of classic Louvin Brothers tunes that are the album's calling card. George Jones's commiserating vocal on "Must You Throw Dirt in My Face" is respectful of the place the tune holds in the country canon but suggests new possibilities for it. Likewise, Will Oldham's assist on the chilling murder ballad "Knoxville Girl" takes more of a tag-team approach than a Louvins-style dual attack. Along the way, everyone from Elvis Costello to Tom T. Hall joins in, but the octogenarian country titan stays firmly in the forefront, assuring that CHARLIE LOUVIN remains on the right track.

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