In case I haven't mentioned before; I love a good vocal harmony, and this album is full of them. It's a selection of gospel, country ballads with the brothers' two voices intertwining seamlessly.
"In the pines" I recognised the melody as having been performed by Lead Belly and then covered by Nirvana as "where did you sleep last night?"
Apparently the record was later re-released with the above cover, in an attempt to make it seem that the brothers' songs were somewhat tongue in cheek, but it's hard to buy that, given that Ira Louvin was a womanising alcoholic who was shot by his 3rd wife and eventually killed in a drink-driving accident by one of his later wives... the guy was basically a walking country and western song himself!
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