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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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