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Chris "Bucket" Thomas
Dec-19-2007, 11:29am
In only what can be described as a YouTube musical adventure.........
Look at the youTube Clip.....start it at 3:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d01bKD2lJYk
The Louvin Brothers.......how cow! That is some good music!
I have gotten into this brother duet stuff.........
What is the name of this song?
Thanks,
earthsave
Dec-19-2007, 12:11pm
Those brother harmonies are great. Louvins are a great resource for unique tunes.
hoffmannia2k7
Dec-19-2007, 12:12pm
the louvin brothers released a live album (maybe more) that is well well well worth checking out.
There is a great hole in the bottom of the sea on said album.
In the group that I'm playing with right now we do 4-8 Louvin brothers tunes over a 2 hour show. It is the most fun to sing,plus Ira was a heck of a mando player.
Broadminder, If you Don't Love Your Neighbor, The Christian Life, Cash on the Barrelhead. It goes on and on.
Satan is real is one of the great country albums.
Dan Cole
Dec-19-2007, 1:13pm
Their tune "Kentucky" is one of my favorites. I think it might actually be an Everly Brothers tune. Its on the Album/CD "Tragic Song of Life".
allenhopkins
Dec-19-2007, 3:20pm
Check out the interview with Charile Louvin in which he says that in the late '50's, their producer told the Louvins that using Ira's mandolin for "kick-offs and turn-arounds" was hindering their record sales -- and that after 1958 or so you couldn't hear mandolin on their records!
Ira wasn't a bluegrass-style mandolin player, but he was effective and fluent in the style of people like Bill Bolick of the Blue Sky Boys, and he could contribute to even up-tempo songs.
Good that things have changed somewhat, and you can hear mandolin fills and back-up on a lot of Nashville recordings now -- those that aren't just "rock'n'roll with a little pedal steel." Norman Blake said that, in '60's Nashville, if you pulled out a mandolin it was as if you'd pulled a rattlesnake from your case. Perhaps not quite so much mandophobia now?
arebin
Dec-19-2007, 3:25pm
I love listening to the Louvin Brothers. My brother turned me on to them 20 years ago.
I never thought THAT much of Ira's playing until I heard the listen to the mocking bird that he does on Live at the New River Ranch or something like that. It is pretty wild.
First song ever performed was Nobody's Darling But Mine with my sister and brother at the age of 12...the louvins provided a great source of music for my family. Still love to listen to them.
swampstomper
Dec-20-2007, 2:05am
I believe Nobody's Darling but Mine is by Governer Jimme Davis (LA), of course the Louvins and many others picked it up.
allenhopkins
Dec-20-2007, 4:11pm
By the way, going back to the first post, isn't the song Kneel At the Cross?
f5loar
Dec-20-2007, 4:25pm
Ira Louvin cut one solo album shortly before he died on Capital I believe. Check it out to hear how the mandolin picker faired on his own.
ricardo
Dec-20-2007, 7:16pm
Charlie Louvin told me: "...after Ken Nelson (their record producer)told Ira the mandolin should not be used on their later CAPITOL recordings..., Ira's DRINKING TRIPLED..." Go figure... R.I.P IRA LOUVIN! #- "...nobody could get along with him(IRA) but he sure could write you a hit song(Stonewall Jackson Opry interview) - There is a poingnant elugy on IRA"S headstone (I've seen it and read it) - I asked CHARLIE where the "words" came from - HE #said "...from the hand of BILL ANDERSON.." Think about THAT...also... "The LOUVIN BROTHERS' STILL LIVE". Thanks for the post's - and the..."heads-up" CAFE FOLKS!!! MOOSE. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
jim simpson
Dec-20-2007, 9:55pm
Check out the tribute CD: Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers.
review excerpt:
Louvin's joined on vocals by George Jones, Alex McManus of Bright Eyes, Will Oldham, Bobby Bare, Tom T. Hall, Tweedy, Costello, and others, with Marty Stuart on mandolin and a crack studio band including Chris Scruggs of BR-549 and angelic vocalist Dianne Berry. Bare and Berry manage to make magic with Louvin; the rest do their best with chestnuts like "Kneeling Drunkard's Plea" and "Worried Man Blues," although Jones's voice is, sadly, ravaged, and the bursts of guitar feedback on the Louvins classic "Great Atomic Power" are absurd. Nonetheless, this album is a welcome return for a country pioneer after a 10-year hiatus from recording. --Ted Drozdowski
allenhopkins
Dec-21-2007, 11:29am
For a fine Louvin Brothers tribute, see if you can find the old Jim & Jesse LP. Some electric guitar and percussion, but at least Jesse's mandolin isn't censored out!
Gutbucket
Dec-21-2007, 5:27pm
That song was also covered by Jerry Douglas and Alison Krause. She did it justice.
ricardo
Dec-21-2007, 8:48pm
re: allenhopkins above : "Jim and Jese Salute the Louvin Brothers" = In a long-ago conversation with Jim McReynolds, he talked at length to me about THE Louvins. He said when the Louvins went on-stage at the OPRY "...everything got kinda' quiet...they would listen.." Moose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif