Entertainment Weekly (11/7/03, p.70) - "...Sterling results [are yielded by] teaming legends ranging from James Taylor to the late Johnny Cash..." - Rating: B+
Performers include: Joe Nichols, Rhonda Vincent, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Terri Clark, Merle Haggard, Carl Jackson, Ronnie Dunn, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Glen Campbell, Leslie Satcher, Kathy Louvin, Pamela Brown Hayes, Linda Ronstadt, Patty Loveless, Jon Randall, Harley Allen, Dierks Bentley, Larry Cordle, Jerry Salley, Dolly Parton, Sonya Isaacs, Marty Stuart, Del McCoury, Pam Tillis, Johnny Cash & The Jordanaires.
LIVIN' LOVIN' LOSIN' won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "How's The World Treating You" won for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals.
As prime architects of the high-lonesome harmony sound that is one of bluegrass's building blocks, Charlie & Ira Louvin have been enormously influential on several generations of bluegrass and country musicians (not to mention numerous artists from the pop/rock world). This tribute album allows some of those musicians to give something back to the Louvins' legacy. It's not surprising to hear impressive interpretations of this material from the bluegrass-schooled likes of Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell ("My Baby's Gone") or Marty Stuart & Del McCoury ("Let Us Travel, Travel On"). However, it's interesting to note that looking to tradition has a positive effective on more mainstream contemporary country artists such as Harley Allen & Dierks Bentley ("I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby") and even pop country hit-maker Joe Nichols (with modern bluegrass diva Rhonda Vincent on "Cash on the Barrelhead." The transformative effect the Louvins' music has on younger musicians is perhaps the greatest tribute of all.