Search - Charlie Louvin :: Live at Shake It Records

HISTORY ON DISC

B. Carter | midwest USA | 06/21/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In 1941 The Louvin Brothers made thier performing debut in Flatrock, AL.

There was a talent show (they won) & a July 4th get together prior to the "professional" debut,

but who's counting? They would stop and start again for a while, ya know with WWII and all

getting in the mix. But for the next two decades the boys, Charlie and Ira, would carve out a

place not only in counrty music, but american music history. To list thier string of accomplishemtns

and accolades would be best left to your own discovery. There is plenty there to be educated on for sure.



In 1965 Ira left us far too soon in a fatal car wreck. Charlie kept going, that's what Ira would have wanted.

So, 60 plus years after he began Charlie Louvin walked through the doors of Shake It Records in Cincinnati, OH,

his band was right behind him, he was there to play. For over an hour a packed house was treated to six

decades of a life story told in song. Nobody came out and said it, but you could feel it hanging in the air, "I was

here, I got to see this this". This is the document of that May 11th evening. You can hear it for yourself in all

its raw glory. And if you listen really closely you might get a itch of what was in the air that night, genuineness.

And as Charlie would and did say, May the good Lord bless and keep you."