Was the Louvin Brothers’ 1959 song ‘Knoxville Girl’ a precursor to 'modern' entertainment?
Television networks are systematically wiping out cities to the tune of a dozen or more murders a week. Take “Longmire,” for instance. Over 63 episodes, the producers killed off half the population of Wyoming. Ira Louvin was a drunk, a womanizer and a man with a violent temper. Married four times, he attempted to strangle his third wife, but she turned the tables on him. She wound up shooting him six times. Ira survived, but the marriage didn’t. Ira was a classic case of a man who was fine - when he wasn’t drinking. When taken into custody, she famously told the police if that didn’t kill him, she’d come back and finish him off. Two years later, Ira and his fourth wife died in a car accident. At the time, a warrant was out for Ira’s arrest on a DWI charge. One of the singles released from “Tragic Songs of Life” was “Knoxville Girl.” If the Louvin Brothers weren’t already straying from their gospel roots, “Knoxville Girl” provided a decline toward Satan. In fact, at the time the song was released, they had already recorded another album titled “Satan is Real.” It seems those Baptist boys from Alabama had fallen for secular music - the hard way. Sick dark tales from the underbelly of American society via