In Memoriam: Charlie Louvin

10 p.m. to Midnight Host: Steve Winters

The greater part of this show features a tribute to Charlie Louvin, one half of one of the most renowned brother acts in country music who died Jan. 26 at age 83 after a nearly year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. With his older brother Ira, the Louvin Brothers brought the close-harmony singing of early country groups such as the Delmore Brothers and Blue Sky Boys into contemporary country music. But, perhaps even more important, the music and vocal style of the Louvin Brothers influenced several generations of musicians from country to folk to bluegrass to rock. It's an everlasting and ever living legacy and this program presents just a smidgeon of it.

Charlie and Ira parted ways en route to solo careers in 1963. Ira died in an automobile accident two years later but Charlie went on to a successful solo career up to the day he died.

The night began with a bit of "mandolin madness" and also featured selections from the debut album of The Boxcar Lilies from Massachusetts, a trio who will be making three appearances in our broadcast area during the next week.

  • Artist, "Title", Album, Label

  • MandoMorphosis, Matt's Idea, MandoMorphosis 2010, Independent

  • Michael Connolly & Miller McNay, Grapes Of Rag, Little Sadie, The Mandolin Casefiles, Independent

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  • MandoMorphosis, Out Of The Furnace And Into The Fire, Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2, MandoMorphosis 2010, Independent

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  • The Boxcar Lilies, Green River Blues, Places On The Highway, Heartwood, Independent

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  • Louvin Brothers, Send Me The Pillow (You Dream On), Country Love Ballads, Capitol

  • Louvin Brothers, Weary Lonesome Blues, A Tribute To The Delmore Brothers, Capitol

  • Charlie Louvin, Wreck On The Highway, Mary Of The Wild Moor, Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, Tompkins Square

  • Louvin Brothers, Do You Live What You Preach?, Best Of Bluegrass: Preachin' Prayin' Singin', Mercury

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  • Gibson Brothers, You're Running Wild, Underneath A Harvest Moon, Big Elm

  • Emmylou Harris with Herb Pedersen, If I Could Only Win Your Love, Profile, Warner Brothers

  • Glenn Campbell & Leslie Satcher, When I Stop Dreaming, Livin' Lovin' Losin': Songs Of the Louvin Brothers, Universal South

  • The Byrds, The Christian Life, There Is A Season (Box Set), Columbia

  • Herb Pedersen, Childish Love, Lonesome Feeling, Sugar Hill

  • Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, My Baby's Gone, Livin' Lovin' Losin': Songs Of the Louvin Brothers, Universal South

  • Jerry Douglas & Alison Krauss, I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby, Slide Rule, Sugar Hill

  • Gibson Brothers, Satan's Jeweled Crown, Underneath A Harvest Moon, Big Elm

  • Marty Stuart & Del McCoury, Let Us Travel/Travel On, Livin' Lovin' Losin': Songs Of the Louvin Brothers, Universal South

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  • The Boxcar Lilies, Travelin' On, Heartwood, Independent