When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers Ira and Charlie Louvin, The Louvin Brothers, created country's most commanding close-harmony sound — you can hear the acts they helped spawn, from the Everly… The Louvin Brothers Country
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Ira and Charlie Louvin, The Louvin Brothers, created country's most commanding close-harmony sound — you can hear the acts they helped spawn, from the Everly Brothers to the Beatles. When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers is an intense 24-cut collection that covers their 1952-62 recordings and traces their path from early gospel to such secular hits as ''When I Stop Dreaming.'' A

Originally posted May 26, 1995 Published in issue #276 May 26, 1995 Order article reprints