Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs
Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "MURDER BALLADS features a scalded steam-train engineer, a lovelorn suicide and other doomed souls, sketched by Louvin's gentle warble and a stately string band."
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CD Details
- Released: December 9, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Tompkins Square
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - p.96
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "MURDER BALLADS features a scalded steam-train engineer, a lovelorn suicide and other doomed souls, sketched by Louvin's gentle warble and a stately string band."Billboard (p.45) - "Louvin's once-crystalline voice does wear his 81 years, but it also carries deeper understanding of the heartache central to the disaster songs he first recorded decades ago..."
Mojo (Publisher) - p.109
4 stars out of 5 -- "Like Johnny Cash, the surviving half of the legendary Louvin Brothers has no problem singing about God and sin with equal gusto. Nor with working with Nashville outsiders -- his producer is Mark Nevers of Lambchop."Record Collector (magazine) - p.98
4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] affecting versions of the Carter Family's 'My Texas Girl,' Merle Travis' 'Dark As A Dungeon' and the traditional 'Darling Corey,' along with the inspired steel guitar work of Chris Scruggs throughout..."Tracks:
- 1.Darling Corey
- 2.Wreck of the Old 97
- 3.Wreck on the Highway
- 4.Katy Dear
- 5.Down with the Old Canoe
- 6.The Little Grave in Georgia
- 7.Dark as a Dungeon
- 8.My Brother's Will
- 9.Dixie Boll Weevil
- 10.Is This Destiny
- 11.Mary of the Wild Moor
- 12.My Texas Girl
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- UPC: 894807002127
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