That Old Time Religion plus Bonus Fic Rec
May. 13th, 2009 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleFor those of us who are prepping for tomorrow night's Supernatural finale, I thought some old-timey musical stylings would get us in the mood.
Not long after I finished writing Lazarus Came Forth someone in my apartment building disposed of a very large collection of CDs, most of them Mississippi Delta blues, and among them was this extraordinary album which...I mean, just look at this cover:
I thought this had to be some kind of kitsch but when I read the liner notes I found out this is the real thing. Serious, hardcore tent revival music right down to the old timey organ riffs in the background. The title track has to be heard to be believed, strangely jaunty for such a dark subject and intercut with actual preaching in between the harmonizing.
Even better is the story that goes with the album cover. Lest you think the Louvin Brothers merely superimposed their cheerfully Pat Booneish images over that fiery background, know that they built that themselves out of "rocks, scrap rubber, and lots of imagination," and then nearly set themselves on fire while torching tires to get the flames right. Satan back there, by the way, was twelve feet tall and made out of plywood.
I had never heard of The Louvin Brothers but according to the liner notes, they were very big in their day, supposedly having "a string of top ten singles" in the late 1950s. I'm sorry I didn't find this album until after Lazarus was finished because there's no way in hell I could have resisted working a track like "Satan is Real" or "Dying From Home and Lost" into the story. I am not very religious and Pentecostal expressions of faith do not appeal to me on a spiritual level but I somehow really enjoy this sort of music, not just the actual sound of it but its eerie evocation of some distant, faith-steeped long-ago. If you're at all interested, you should give The Louvin Brothers a try.
And if the tunes aren't quite enough to tide you over until tomorrow,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Not long after I finished writing Lazarus Came Forth someone in my apartment building disposed of a very large collection of CDs, most of them Mississippi Delta blues, and among them was this extraordinary album which...I mean, just look at this cover:
I thought this had to be some kind of kitsch but when I read the liner notes I found out this is the real thing. Serious, hardcore tent revival music right down to the old timey organ riffs in the background. The title track has to be heard to be believed, strangely jaunty for such a dark subject and intercut with actual preaching in between the harmonizing.
Even better is the story that goes with the album cover. Lest you think the Louvin Brothers merely superimposed their cheerfully Pat Booneish images over that fiery background, know that they built that themselves out of "rocks, scrap rubber, and lots of imagination," and then nearly set themselves on fire while torching tires to get the flames right. Satan back there, by the way, was twelve feet tall and made out of plywood.
I had never heard of The Louvin Brothers but according to the liner notes, they were very big in their day, supposedly having "a string of top ten singles" in the late 1950s. I'm sorry I didn't find this album until after Lazarus was finished because there's no way in hell I could have resisted working a track like "Satan is Real" or "Dying From Home and Lost" into the story. I am not very religious and Pentecostal expressions of faith do not appeal to me on a spiritual level but I somehow really enjoy this sort of music, not just the actual sound of it but its eerie evocation of some distant, faith-steeped long-ago. If you're at all interested, you should give The Louvin Brothers a try.
And if the tunes aren't quite enough to tide you over until tomorrow,
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Date: 2009-05-14 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-14 02:23 am (UTC)Re: i am still sort of perplexed why they changed the schedule...
Date: 2009-05-14 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-14 03:12 am (UTC)I feel the exactly the same way about that kind of music. I'm a Jew, and a pretty secular one at that, but, goodness, do I love country gospel! Just the possibility of believing that much gives me chills...
(ETA: yes, just looked it up: "The Great Atomic Power"!)