Their first release was Dickey’s solo album A Glimmer on the Outskirts.

He directed the 2018 film Blaze about cult troubadour Blaze Foley, played by Ben Dickey, and shortly after launched the record label SexHawkeBlack with Charlie Sexton and SXSW’s Louis Black. Satan Is Real is just the latest country music-themed project for Hawke. The brothers wrote and performed secular country. Loudermilk, a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member. Tyler Mahan Coe’s superb Cocaine & Rhinestones podcast delved deep into their history in an episode, while filmmaker Blake Judd profiled Charlie - who died in 2011 - in the documentary Charlie Louvin: Still Rattlin’ the Devil’s Cage. The Louvin Brothers were an American musical duo composed of brothers Ira (Ap June 20, 1965) and Charlie (J January 26, 2011) Louvin ( n Loudermilk). The planned film isn’t the only time the Louvins’ history has been dissected. While delivering songs like “The Christian Life” and “The Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea,” the siblings often quarreled and lived on the edge, particularly Ira, whose mercurial behavior ultimately caused Charlie to leave the group. Satan Is Real, currently in development, costars Hawke and Alessandro Nivola as sibling singers Charlie and Ira Louvin.īest known for their 1958 album Satan Is Real, with its outrageous hellscape album cover, the Louvin Brothers were a study in conflict. 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.' 0.99 on iTunes 1. The story of Country Music Hall of Fame duo the Louvin Brothers will be told in a new biopic starring Ethan Hawke, according to Variety. The term 'living legend' gets thrown around quite a bit, but it actually applies to Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin.

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