Showing posts with label Louvin Brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louvin Brothers. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 August 2019

People were trying to find anything they could that they could fix, and you couldn't fix Elvis

But unfortunately, country music was starting to suffer because of rock and roll, and some people thought it had something to do with the old timey instruments like the mandolin, It wasn't, it was Elvis, but people were trying to find anything they could that they could fix, and you couldn't fix Elvis.

C. Louvin, Satan is real: the ballad of the Louvin brothers (2012), 220-1

Monday, 12 August 2019

Waylon said it would help

George Jones was probably the worst. I worked a show with him once and we were standing in the wings waiting to go on. He was acting a little peculiar, so I asked, "You been drinking, George?"
"Naw," he said. "I been working on my drinking problem."
"How's that?"
By way of an answer, he reached in his coat pocket, pulled out a handful of cocaine, and buried his nose in it, snorting. Then, when he'd fixed up that side of his nose, he went after the other.
"How's that working for you?" I asked
"Pretty good," he said. "Waylon said it would help."

C. Louvin, Satan is real: the ballad of the Louvin brothers (2012), 194-5

Sunday, 11 August 2019

He wasn't worth the gunpowder it would've taken to blow him away

Some of Papa's brothers did go bad from their raising. He had one called Hummer, and he wasn't worth the gunpowder it would've taken to blow him away. 

C. Louvin, Satan is real: the ballad of the Louvin brothers (2012), 17-18

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Satan is real


Preacher, tell them that Satan is real too. You can hear him in songs that give praise to idols and sinful things of this world. You can see him in the destruction of homes torn apart. I know that Satan is real. For once I had a happy home; I was loved and respected by my family; I was looked upon as a leader in my community. And then Satan came into my life, I grew selfish and un-neighbourly. My friends turned against me. And finally my home was broken apart. My children took their path into a world of sin.

Yes, preacher, it’s sweet to know that God is real. And to know that in him all things are possible. And we know that heaven is a real place, where joy shall never end. But sinner friends, if you’re here today, Satan is real too, and hell is a real place. A place of everlasting punishment.

The Louvin Brothers, 'Satan is Real', Satan is Real (1959), 1.11 - 2.24