Bluegrass legend Charlie Louvin died this morning of pancreatic cancer. Bill Friskics-Warren has followed Louvin’s career revival since what Steve Earle’s guitarist Eric “Roscoe” Ambel dubbed “the roots rock scare” of the ’90s. Friskics-Warren wrote in the New York Times about Charlie’s connection to his late brother, Ira, who died in 1965: Mr. Louvin’s solo […]
