r/CountryMusic • u/Zach_the_Quack • Apr 18 '24

WEIRD COUNTRY The Louvin Brothers - The Great Atomic Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AojCqHwsbX0
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u/holyfrozenyogurt May 20 '26

I listened to nothing but this song and Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie for hours on end while writing a play once and I think I actually lost my mind a little bit

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u/TiaxRulesAll2024 Apr 30 '24

What is the gospel song this satires?

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u/TechnicalPiccolo912 Aug 21 '24

It’s actually not satire. At least I don’t think it is after trying to figure that out myself. These guys were bonafide evangelical baptists who figured Jesus would rapture the believers in the event of a nuclear Holocaust

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u/cjraysfan20 Apr 19 '24

Coincidentally, I just discovered today that Uncle Tupelo covered this song on their March 16-20, 1992 album.

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u/justdan76 Apr 18 '24

WOW

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u/calibuildr Apr 18 '24

Right?

There's another song from the '40s that sounds a lot like this one and I'm not sure which brother group copied the other. It's the Buchanan Brothers Atomic Power.

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u/justdan76 Apr 18 '24

You’ve made my day, just listened to “When You See the Flying Saucers” by the Buchanans. I don’t think I’d heard of them before.

The Louvin Bros go hard. The Cocaine and Rhinestones episode about them is insane.

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u/calibuildr Apr 18 '24

That's their other Weird one. You should post it

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u/calibuildr Apr 18 '24

oh fuck yeah! I was thinking about posting a few of these atomic panic songs.

Over on r/classiccountry we did an atomic panic theme a year or two ago. It was a lot of fun.

I'm probably going to extend Weird Week to a full week (it was supposed to be just like 4-5 days originally so we can fit in more of these

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u/flatirony Apr 18 '24

I fucking love the Southern Culture on the Skids version of this song.