WEAPON OF PRAYER

Created on 05/05/2006
Latest update on 27/09/2023

Artist: Louvin Brothers
Author: Charles Louvin/Ira Louvin
Label: MGM
Year: 1951

Cut shortly before one of them was send to Korea and a profetical song for Ira: that day in '63 after he had beaten up his wife once again, she shot him, twice in the hand, four times in the chest. Two of these chest bullets were stopped by the Bible he always kept on him. At one point the song goes: My Bible saved me, It's played its part, It stopped the bullet aimed at my heart.

Covers:

1977:

Jonathan Edwards

1990:

Notting Hillbillies [first played it for Andy Kershaw's BBC radio show in '88, released on Brendan Croker's Kershaw Sessions album ('94)]

1994:

New Lost City Ramblers

2016:

Pensionado's

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