Tragic Songs of Life

 (6 customer reviews)

A dark and truly beautiful album, quite possibly the Louvin Brother's finest. Every song is filled with a terrible beauty that is hard to explain if you are not familiar with Ira and Charlie's work."Katie Dear" and "Knoxville Girl" are particularly memorable songs and stay with you forever! One of the greatest and totally essential.

It's terrific to see that this title is still available some 50 years after its initial release. It just goes to show you that there are still a few record producers and labels who have not totally sacrificed taste and class in the name of greed. My CD collection numbers over 2,500 CD's and spans 15 different genres, including country, jazz, opera, blues, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, folk, classical, western swing, bluegrass, Latin, show tunes, Seasonal and movie soundtracks. But I will happily go out on a limb and proclaim this as one of my 20 favorite albums of all time.

A friend introduced me to the vinyl in 1978. At the time, I knew little about Country music and even less about Bluegrass. Yet the very first time I heard it, I knew I was experiencing something special. Some may find Take The News To Mother or Mary of the Wild Moor (or any of the other 12 songs for that matter) somewhat hokey, but the unadorned, raw sentiment of these heartbreaking songs is...Read more

Excellent quality product. I have bought the vinyl version back in 1960, and loved it.I was very pleased to find it on Amazon.