Charlie Louvin obituary

One half of the Louvin Brothers, an influential 1950s country and western double actThe singer and guitarist Charlie Louvin, who has died aged 83, was half of one of country music's best loved and most influential double acts. The recordings he made in the 1950s with his older brother, Ira, who played the mandolin and sang the high harmony parts – on songs such as I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby, When I Stop Dreaming and My Baby's Gone – shaped the sound of the Everly Brothers. Later, the...

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