I grew up on a steady diet of Louvin Brothers’ music. I consider many of their songs the actual soundtrack to my childhood. But I’m not familiar with all of their songs.
Paul taught us one I didn’t know a few months ago and we’ve been playing it ever since. “If Today Was The Day” is an original Louvin Brothers song. Even though the words are serious and worrisome, the tune pulls you along and the song is a lot of fun to play.
I hope you enjoyed the video!
Many of the original Louvin Brother songs were gospel and most of those were of the warning variety. Others that come to mind from childhood: “Great Atomic Power,” “God’s Way of Living,” “Satan’s Jewel Crown,” “Praying,” “Satan is Real,” “Satan and the Saint,” “Are You Afraid to Die,” “If We Forget God,” and “Wait a Little Longer Please Jesus.”
If you’re not familiar with the Louvin Brothers I encourage you to find out more about them. Many of their recordings are available on YouTube.
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Thank you. I enjoyed this song. I also know “Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus.”
I enjoyed listening to this morning’s song. The only song I knew of the ones mentioned was “Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus “. When I was a young kid, we would go to my paternal grandparents home at Due West, SC after the morning church service to eat dinner with them every Sunday. The adults would play gospel records in the afternoon on one of those small square box record players. One song that has stuck with me all of my life was “Sorry I Never Knew You” sung by Naomi and the Seago Brothers. This was back in the 60’s. We often talk about family and friends on the blog and I often think of how sad it would be to get to heaven and find out that some of our loves are not there. My pastor often preaches about being ready because you can be gone in the blink of an eye. That is the only comfort I have from my wife’s death is knowing without a doubt she was ready and is in heaven.
Definitely going to start listening to the Louvin Brothers. Good song with a serious question. Everyone have a blessed Sunday.
WOW…REALLY WELL DONE…Thankyou.
This Louvin Brothers song was new to me, but like everything I’ve ever heard from them (and your family) I enjoyed it. I was also glad to see that in this case you are actually part of the video (not hiding your bass picking light under a bushel). Of course that raises the next point; namely, why you are an integral part of the pickin’ but not the singin’? I can’t imagine, given the way musical talent runs through your family like a major vein of gold through a gold mine, that you don’t have a fine voice. I bet I’m not the only reader who has pondered this, but I’m sufficiently nosy (or maybe lacking in proper behavior) to inquire.
Jim-so glad you enjoyed the video. The singing gene skipped over me 🙂
You all did a wonderful job on this song! The words have such power, and the message is clear. In this world we are living in, I can’t think of a better song. We are not promised tomorrow. Have a blessed Sunday everyone!!!
Love this song!!!!
A wonderful song and music – I loved to hear it in the current moments I am in. Until I read the old testatment over and over, I didn’t realize the importance of music to God. I can feel the importance to me when I hear music that moves me and especially moving me closer in relationship with him. Thank you so much for sharing the music that travels with me along that journey.
An appropriate song as many are getting ready to attend their local “church house” of their faith. Great rendition of an old Louvin Brothers song – even tho the message is serious, the up tempo beat makes you smile as we listen. Well done, Tipper, Paul, and Chatter.
I thought this was a really awesome song and a really dang good question!!! It’s probably the most important question ever asked!!! I was impressed to see you picking, Mrs. Tipper, and you three sounded terrific!!! That room you’re sitting in has fantastic acoustics and you guessed it, I think the wood is just beautiful and spectacular!!! It’s just a gorgeous video and those LOUVIN boys surely had a lot of talent, didnt they???? Have a blessed day all BP&A folks!!! If I leave here today, I’m fully expecting to go with Jesus! To Him be all praise and glory and honor!!! We must tell the GOOD NEWS to all creation. How can I keep to myself the greatest thing that ever happened to me??? I must tell of Jesus!!!
I like the Louvin Brothers music. Y’all played and sung that old song very well.
You all did well again, as usual. Of the songs you mention, only “Wait a Little Longer Please Jesus” is known to me. I increasingly wonder if we will stop asking that and instead begin to ask for him to come quickly. I can see it each way but I think he will let us know which it should be.
Never heard that one, but enjoyed it a good deal. Chatter’s picking has grown a lot over the last few years.
Today will be THE DAY for many of us. We don’t know when that day will be so we need to BE READY -♡ TRUST JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR
My father’s parents had a record that had Great atomic power on it. I don’t know who was singing on it but to this day I remember the words “atomic power, atomic power. It was given by the mighty hand of God”. When I sang along as a small child I didn’t know what the words were about. Ii just loved the sounds and beat. They also had the record “Slipping’ Around” which was about adulterers. I sang that also as a child. Glad you wrote about this. Wish I had that record.
Been lovin’ that song for a while. My first introduction to Gospel was the Blackwood Brothers….long long time ago. Went to the concert with the lady who was my MIL, she wasn’t back then but just a next door neighbor. Nothing like good ole REAL country music. My husband says, if it doesn’t have a guitar and fiddle in the band, it can’t be read Country Music. I am still reflecting on Alex. That book will be with me for a while. God Bless and thanks.
All my life I have gravitated towards this genre of music. I still don’t even know what to label it, other than my comfort music. I truly believe God led me to your blog. Your posts on Appalachian traditions and way of life, recipes, and beautiful scenery was exactly what I had been searching for my entire life. As you know, I grew up in the big city of San Diego. But my heart was always drawn southeast. Picture me standing in San Diego, facing the corner of the Appalachian mountains where you are, and basically that was me since I was a little girl. Something always tugged me from that one little spot on this earth, not really a beacon, but maybe, like a lighthouse beacon. But really more so a yearning, a lonely yearning to be there. Something has always pulled me like a strong magnet to be there. I felt like if I was there, my life would be complete. In my 20s, I moved to Iowa, and I absolutely loved the small town life, the very distinct four seasons, all the history, the Midwest friendly way of life. But I still did not feel complete, or whole. After moving back to San Diego for a few years, I moved here to North Carolina. I love the scenery, I love the way of life, I live in my dream home (brick with double doors at the entrance), the food, … just everything. But I still feel like I am not quite whole yet, there is still a little more that has to fall into place, but I do feel I am where I am supposed to be, and that in God’s timing, that little bit that is left that God has planned for me – it will be. And then I won’t be searching anymore. Listening to Paul and your Dad sing the Louvin’s songs, and other music from that genre, has filled that searching I was doing for the kind of music that makes me happiest. I feel like I am home when I hear it. Not home in the physical sense, but home in the inner sense. Your posts on how much this type of music was part of the foundation of who you are really resonates in me. It makes me feel I missed out on so much in my growing up years, but so alive and content to have your family’s music in my life now. I listen to all the links Paul shares to other musicians that sing this style of music. And every name he mentions in his descriptions of the musicians that influence him, I absorb their music, too – like a sponge. This is what home feels like. Heaven will be my eternal home, and I so look forward to it. But my earthly home, the place God made for me to be happiest in – I find here. The music, the food, the people, the way of life that has always called me.
Donna. : )