"One of the most important and illuminating memoirs ever written by a country singer." — The Wall Street Journal

Get ready for one of America's great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-century Southern gothic Cain and Abel and one of the greatest country duos of all time. The Los Angeles Times called them "the most influential harmony team in the history of country music," but Emmylou Harris may have hit closer to the heart of the matter, saying "there was something scary and washed in the blood about the sound of the Louvin Brothers." For readers of Johnny Cash's irresistible autobiography and Merle Haggard's My House of Memories, no country music library will be complete without this raw and powerful story of the duo that everyone from Dolly Parton to Gram Parsons described as their favorites: the Louvin Brothers.

"Profane, piquant, and brutally honest in ways that are sure to offend the country music establishment." — The New York Times Book Review

"The mix of light and darkness that filled their music was mirrored in their lives." — The New Yorker

"Grand themes of life, death, religion, salvation, damnation, human choices, and, sometimes, joy." — Los Angeles Times

"Magnanimous without feigning and brusque without malice, Charlie Louvin's clear-eyed commentary is straightforward and unapologetic." — Oxford American

"A piece of powerful, rhythmic lyricism . . . Like his songwriting, Charlie's stark yet warm prose doesn't waste a word or note . . . He hits a pitch-perfect harmony between the sacred and the profane, contrasting tender memories and colorful Americana with bursts of harrowing brutality and ugliness." — The Onion's AV Club