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The great fans of Minneapolis demanded it, and they got it! 😀
Time Today at 9:00am – Monday at 12:00pm
Location The Dakota Club
A third night (Feb 22 – 7PM) has been added for Minneapolis and FACEBOOK FRIENDS get first chance at tickets!Call The Dakota box office at 612-332-1010. PASSWORD IS “BLESSED”
Box Office Hours:
Mon – Fri, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sat – Sun, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pmThanks for posting the link, LWJ. That Chuck is such a showman, I hope he does travel to Canada for you real soon. And I’ll bet you do get to meet LuStoger real soon. 🙂
Sweet!
I know you can’t give specifics until you’re confirmed, but could you please let us know general dates for when the second segment of the tour will begin and end? (just so we know not to book any ‘other life’ commitments) thx!!
I had the great privilege of seeing Chuck this past Saturday at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The Titan Ups opened doing The Specials’ debut album; and Chuck, Chris von Sneidern, and the Spanish Bombs did the Clash’s “London Calling”. Most fun show ever! The entire floor was bouncing from all the dancing. If you ever get the opportunity to see Chuck live, DO IT! 😀
P.S. When I told him that Stoger said to say “hello”, he said “you mean Lucinda Stoger”? 🙂
Good articles. The only thing I disagree with is about the not being prolific. Five albums in 10 years is plenty prolific. 🙂
Not bad at a month out from release date. 😀
Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#35 in Music
#19 in Music > Rock
#31 in Music > Pophttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/01/charlie-louvin.html
Remembering Charlie Louvin
January 27, 2011 | 6:59 am
The note Lucinda Williams sent when I asked Wednesday for her reflections about Louvin Brothers singer Charlie Louvin, on getting word of his death at age 83 from pancreatic cancer, was exceptionally touching, and warm and funny.I quoted just part of it in the obituary I wrote for Thursday’s paper, but the whole thing is worth sharing:
“I got word of Charlie Louvin’s passing today, which is also my birthday. Losing Charlie means that we have lost one of the last of the founding fathers of honest-to-god country music. Charlie was a legend as one half of the Louvin Brothers and left a deep impression on me. I had the honor of working with him in the studio and touring with him.
“Every show would end with the two of us trading out verses on his song, ‘When I Stop Dreaming’ followed by my song ‘Get Right With God,'” Williams wrote in her e-mail, “Charlie loved that song and he loved to dance and as the band rocked out, he would grab my arms and spin me around.
“One time we were performing in Kansas City outdoors and it was very windy that evening. Charlie’s set list kept blowing away. At one point, he’d finally had enough and he grabbed his pocket knife and planted that thing right through the set list into the stage floor to keep it from blowing away. Later, that same night, after the show, we sat on the bus and, with sadness in his eyes, he told us that, on the way to Kansas City, we had driven right by the milepost where his brother, Ira, had been killed in a car wreck.
“Charlie was eternally youthful, full of spitfire, vim and vigor and, like Hank Williams, was a true punk, in the best sense of the word. We will miss Charlie but like he said, shortly before he left us, ‘I’m ready to go home.'”
That was pretty typical of the reactions I got from everyone I spoke to or heard from by e-mail on Wednesday while working on the story: Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris, Byrds-Flying Burrito Brothers–Desert Rose Band founding member Chris Hillman, Phil Everly, Vince Gill and Marty Stuart.
Gill, who I caught up with in Texas, where he was starting a run of four concerts, spoke eloquently about the magic in the harmonizing Charlie and Ira did, which grew out of the Deep South tradition of sacred harp music and “shape-note” singing.
“You can’t find anybody, I don’t think, that was not inspired by them,” he said. “They are the kingpins of that family harmony, and there were so many of them: the Osborne Brothers, the Bales Brothers, the Monroe Brothers, the Wilburn Brothers, the Everlys and on and on and on.“I was always drawn to that sound of blood,” he said. “What I spent my whole life trying to be was the blood of whoever I was singing with. Rodney [Crowell] was one of those for me, I sang so much with him when I was young. Buck Owens and Don Rich were the closest two guys that weren’t related that sounded related. I’ve always been completely undone by the seamlessness of what blood did in music.”
Harris said something similar when she talked about the Louvins to the British news weekly the Observer last year: “I’d always loved the Everly Brothers, but there was something scary and washed in the blood about the sound of the Louvin Brothers.”
Stuart said their music, steeped in the old-time murder ballads and apocalyptic stories of the choice between spiritual damnation or salvation that are characteristic of Appalachian music, was simply part of the ether when he was a kid. Their take-no-prisoners attitude about their religious beliefs came through on the extraordinary cover shot of their album “Satan Is Real,” showing them in front of a cardboard cutout of a giant figure of the devil.
“Growing up in the South,” Stuart told me from a New Jersey airport, where he was about to depart for a tour of Europe, “the Louvin Brothers were part of the atmosphere; like the scent of magnolias, they were part of the breeze.”
Hillman recalled the twist of fate that introduced him to the Louvins’ music, music that would stay with him throughout his long and distinguished career.
“My mother bought a Louvin Brothers album some place in 1960 because it had a picture of Ira playing a mandolin, and she knew I was learning the mandolin. I was a sophomore in high school in Del Mar, Calif. I put the record on the turntable, and oh my God. It was [their 1956] ‘Tragic Songs of Life’ album, all the old songs with just the two of them. I loved it, I loved the mandolin playing. And that was it, I was swept away.
“After high school, my interest was reignited when I started working with Vern Gosdin and brother Rex. Their uncle Rebe had written ‘Don’t Laugh’ that the Louvins recorded, so here I am, 18-years-old playing Louvin Brothers with those harmonies to die for. The Byrds taught me ‘Kentucky Song,’ which the Louvins used to do. Didn’t think much about them for a while, until ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ album, and Gram [Parsons] reignited that love for them; that’s when we started doing ‘The Christian Life.’ They were always in my life from time I was 16, when they came in totally by accident.
“But it was supposed to be. They were divinely placed in my lap,” Hillman said. “I owe them both for shaping my whole journey.”
— Randy Lewis
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/01/rip-charlie-louvin-1927-2011.html
Country music legend Charlie Louvin died early this morning. He was 83.
Nashville radio station WSM-AM has confirmed to Paste the news after receiving word from his wife, Betty. Louvin died at approximately 1:30 a.m. this morning from complications stemming from his bout with pancreatic cancer.
Additionally, Nashville entertainment reporter James Carter confirmed in an e-mail to Paste that Louvin died in his home. “His wife confirmed it to WSM radio about 5am,” Carter wrote. “He has been suffering various medical problems over the last year… Funeral services pending.”
Louvin had been an active musician since the 1940’s, and was most notably recognized for his work with the Louvin Brothers. He spent the bulk of the past four-plus decades as an influential country singer, releasing 19 albums as a solo artist. “That’s the thing about The Louvin Brothers; they were dead serious,” Emmylou Harris told Paste in a 2007 feature. “The unadorned simplicity they used in their storytelling is the heart of what songwriters are trying to do.”
In 2001, Louvin was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame for his work with the Louvin Brothers. He had written music as recently as three years ago, releasing two albums, Ships to Heaven and Sings Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs, both of which were released in 2008.
LWJ – you are a super sleuth! Thanks for the link, and for all of the other great stuff you’ve dug up. 🙂
“Good luck finding your buttercup” would be a great t-shirt saying. 😉
Sorry you missed it, PDL!!! So close!!! But on a lighter note, I think it’s good that it’s getting airplay during more ‘prime’ time. I was looking at some of the stations’ playlists, and they showed Buttercup getting airplay mostly between 1-2am. Good luck ‘finding your Buttercup’ next time! 🙂
Hi everyone –
Here are some links and phone numbers to request Buttercup: 🙂
KCMP/Minneapolis (can also rank song here) http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/playlist/song_detail.php?song_id=210146
WFUV/New York
WXPN/Philadelphia http://xpn.org/requests?fid=8
WEHM/Long Island, NY http://www.wehm.com/cafe.html or call 866-955-9290
WTMD/Baltimore
KUT/Austin call 512-471-2345
WDST/Woodstock call 845-679-9378 (WDST)
WBJB/Monmouth, NJ call (732) 224-2905
WMVY/Cape Cod – email to: equest@mvyradio.com
WRSI/Northampton http://wrsi.com/pages/3232655.php or call 413-586-8939
WAPS/Akron
WJCU/Cleveland request on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/wjcu887
KRSH/Santa Rosa call 707.588.9999
KPND/Spokane
KZMV/Breckenridge, CO http://www.kcmvradio.com/REQUESTS/tabid/538/Default.aspx or call 970-547-1063
KNBA/Anchorage call Requests: 907-279-5622 / Toll Free: 888-278-5622SPINS:
WTTS/Indianapolis 4x WTTS Studio Line: 1-800-923-WTTS (9887)
KFOG/San Francisco 1x http://kfog.com/music/RequestaSong.aspx or call 1-800-300-KFOG (5364)
KGSR/Austin 1x call (512) 390-5477
WNCS/Burlington 1x http://www.pointfm.com/request.php or call 1-877-FM-POINT
WMMM/Madison 1x http://www2.1055triplem.com/sites/all/scripts/songrequest/index.php
WCLZ/Portland 1x Call Studio #: 207.871.WCLZ (871.9259)
WQKL/Ann Arbor 1x http://promosuiteinteractive.com/cap/enterhere.asp?capid=19024 or call 734.998.1071
KTHX/Reno 1x call (775) 852-KTHX (5849)
WXRT/Chicago 1x – send email to: XRTComments@wxrt.com or call Studio Phone: 312-240-WXRT (9978)That was indeed a great show in ’08! I remember there was some disruption in getting gasoline to that part of the country. A lot of gas stations had completely run out, and the ones that were open had looooonngg lines with gas rationed and priced close to $5/gallon. Yikes!
Those were also the shows where we got to hear “For What It’s Worth” performed. 😀
Also, there was a show in Charleston a couple nights later, and my seat was way in the back. I stopped at the box office on the way in to the show to see if anything closer had opened up, with the intention of buying the good ticket and giving away my lesser ticket. I asked the lady at the counter if she had any close-up seats available and she pointed to a ticket in front of me – front row that a couple had just left behind for her to give away. Talk about magic and good karma! So I left my lesser ticket behind in hopes that someone else could put it to good use. Of course, I ended up sitting next to the angel folks who gave me my front row seat, and cheerfully bought them some beers. Lu draws in the nicest people! 🙂
What I’m assuming is the deluxe CD is ranked # 2,221 on Amazon, and it’s still 7 weeks from release date – still only a gleam in the eye… How cool would it be if it hits # 1 ?!!!! 😀
I am visualizing and manifesting #1….#1….#1…. 😯 😯 😯
Such a great, great album – can’t wait till everyone gets to hear the songs I was blessed to hear live – y’all are gonna love them! 🙂
