The Tennessean ran a review of Satan Is Real and the documentary Charlie Louvin: Still Rattlin’ the Devil’s Cage yesterday. It was really nice to see an article from somebody who knew Charlie. The kind folks at JuddFilms and Neltner … Continue reading
That’d be Hell’s Belles: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver: With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman, which I’ve been hunting in used bookstores for awhile now and finally gave in an ordered, and Theodore Roosevelt On Race Riots Reds … Continue reading
I’m over at the New Yorker‘s Book Bench blog, running down some of my favorite Louvin Brothers songs. Just so you know.
Naomi Johnson was kind enough to review Satan Is Real on her blog, The Drowning Machine. This is the kind of review that means the world to me, coming from a life-long Louvin Brothers fan. I could talk forever about … Continue reading
The Los Angeles Times has a feature coming out in tomorrow’s paper about Satan Is Real. Which, thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can read tonight. The records that brothers Ira and Charlie Louvin made in the 1950s … Continue reading
HarperCollins has a browsable copy of Satan Is Real up on their website that you can poke around in. And, of course, it’s out today. Just saying.
So says Paper magazine about Satan Is Real. And after quoting the back matter, they also have this to say: Uh, this book sounds awesome. Whoever wants to read it with us in our just-formed “Papermag Timeless Murder Ballads Book … Continue reading
Woke up this morning to find that the New York Post has mandated Satan Is Real as required reading. Which is a hell of a good way to begin 2012. Happy new year!
Do yourself a favor. Click here, and then click the “listen” button on the left side of the page. You download the whole album from Amazon. Which I’ll be doing. And then, of course, there’s this, which it seems like … Continue reading
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Buy Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers from an indie bookstore, Amazon.com, or Barnes & Noble.
Buy Pike from an indie bookstore, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or PM Press.
Buy Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! from an indie bookstore, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or PM Press.