Close Harmony is a box set of The Louvin Brothers recordings. It is an eight-CD box set and was released in 1992.
History Close Harmony contains 219 songs from the duo's years with Capitol, Decca, MGM, and Apollo, presented in chronological order along with session notes.
The recordings include such artists as Chet Atkins, Grandpa Jones, The Jordanaires, Jerry Byrd, Pete Drake, Floyd Cramer, Hank Garland and many others.
The annotations for the songs that accompanied the box set were expanded into a book titled In Close Harmony: The Story of the Louvin Brothers by Charles K. Wolfe.
Reception
In his Allmusic review, Thom Jurek describes the release, concluding " Charlie and Ira took harmony singing to a new level and the creation of full-length albums far out of the sphere of one or two singles and filler. It's true that this is mainly for the fanatics, but it's also for libraries and historians of the music... This set is a treasure. Period."
Personnel Charlie Louvin – vocals, guitar Ira Louvin – vocals, tenor guitar, mandolin Chet Atkins – guitar Grandpa Jones – banjo The Jordanaires – vocals Harold Bradley – guitar, bass Owen Bradley – vibraphone Paul Buskirk – mandolin Jerry Byrd – pedal steel guitar Lightning Chance – bass Roy Madison "Junior" Huskey – bass Floyd Cramer – piano Faye Cunningham – vocals Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar Ray Edenton – guitar, banjo Hank Garland – guitar Smiley Wilson – guitar Buddy Harman – drums William Paul Ackerman – drums Don Helms – pedal steel guitar Eddie Hill – fiddle, guitar Jimmy Capps – guitar Paul Yandell – guitar Odell Martin – guitar George McCormick – guitar, baritone guitar, vocal harmony Marvin H. Hughes – piano, organ Shot Jackson – dobro Thomas Lee Jackson Jr. – fiddle Dale Potter – fiddle Jimmy Riddle – harmonica Production notes: Paul Cohen – producer Ken Nelson – producer Fred Rose – producer Bob Jones – mastering Eddie Stubbs – discography Larry Walsh – mixing Richard Weize – reissue producer, research Mark Wilder – disc dub Hoffmann Nienburg – artwork Charles K. Wolfe – liner notes, photography, illustrations, discography Brad Benedict – photography, illustrations Manfred Bersebach – photography, illustrations David Freeman – photography, illustrations
See also Close harmony
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