Artist: Charlie Louvin
Feature from web archive December 10, 2008
“You can kill him with words”:
A conversation with Charlie Louvin
In 1956, the Louvin Brothers released their first long-playing album on Capitol, Tragic Songs Of Life. The collection of murder ballads and songs of lost love would become their best-selling album and an influential aesthetic document of country tragedy. The Louvin Brothers always sang of so much more than doom and despair, but no country [...]
Record Review from web archive October 2, 2008
Charlie Louvin
Charlie Louvin’s phlegmy, tobacco-stained voice threatened to fade away amid the recording of his self-titled album of last year, but producer Mark Nevers found a calm, folkish context for the great country singer’s poker-faced demeanor and old man’s croak. Even with the likes of Marty Stuart and Elvis Costello pitching in, that album didn’t play [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #68 Mar-Apr 2007
Charlie Louvin – Self-Titled
It’s a common sequencing strategy to put the weakest track on an album in the second-to-last position, where it does the least harm to musical momentum while setting the stage for a rousing finale. Often this track is the last to make the cut, or the one that doesn’t quite fit. On the first studio [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #49 Jan-Feb 2004
Charlie Louvin – Valentine’s (Albany, NY)
Charlie Louvin took the stage in the spangled Nashville equivalent of David Byrne’s big suit. But if his powder blue coat dwarfed his diminutive frame, it did nothing to diminish his legend. Young fans clad in leather and spiked hair dotted a crowd that was heavily populated with classic country fans sitting on the concrete [...]
A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Satan Is Real, but you won’t find him here
“The whole world has got to where if you told ‘em, ‘I’ve got an ant, just a regular little ant that crawls on the ground, that can eat a thousand-pound roll of hay, and you can see him do that for a dollar,’ they’d say, ‘Well, I figured there was one of them somewhere, but [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Charlie Louvin – Magic Songs of Life
Across the evening sky All the birds are leaving But how can they know It’s time for them to go? Before the winter fire I will still be dreaming I have no thoughts of time For who knows where the time goes Who knows where the time goes?-Sandy Denny, 1967 Just 20 years old when [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Charlie Louvin sidebar – Murder, She Wrote
“You know, it’s about Knoxville, Iowa.” That’s what one of my musician friends told me. Well, not quite. But it’s not about Knoxville, Tennessee, either, even though that’s the common misconception. A haunting, tragic folk song about a man who murders his girlfriend and dumps her body in a river, “Knoxville Girl” actually originated in [...]
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