I was lucky enough to see Charlie Louvin give a talk about his life in music, illustrated with songs, at the Swannanoa Gathering in 2010, shortly before he died. Despite serious ill health, Charlie was highly entertaining, very funny, and in pretty good voice, performing with an excellent young Nashville guitarist who was clearly hanging on his every word. Tales of folks crowding into the only house in the valley that possessed a radio, to her the 'Grand Ol' Opry', and of Bill and Charlie Monroe fighting with baseball bats.

His son, Charlie Jr, informed me as I bought the T-shirt that the figure of the Devil used for the 'Satan is Real' photoshoot had been made from the baseboard of his model railway set. "I got home one day, and my Uncle Iry had cut up my train board." The blazing rocks were simply soaked in kerosene and set alight!

I don't know about 'born again', but by all accounts, at the age of 82 he still aspired to be quite the roguish ladies' man. Unforgettable.