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What's Shaking - 11/20/07 

MUSIC FOR BOTH SIDES OF YOUR BRAIN:

Charlie Louvin - "LIVE AT SHAKE IT RECORDS" / Tompkins Square
In 1941 The Louvin Brothers made thier performing debut in Flatrock, AL.  There was a talent show (they won) & a July 4th get together prior to this "professional" debut, but who's counting? They would stop and start again for a while, ya know with WWII and allgetting in the mix. But for the next two decades the boys, Charlie and Ira, would carve out a place not only in counrty music, but American music history. To list thier string of accomplishemtns and accolades would be best left to your own discovery. There is plenty there to be educated on for sure.

In 1965 Ira left us far too soon in a fatal car wreck. Charlie kept going - that's what Ira would have wanted.
So, 60 plus years after he began, Charlie Louvin walked through the doors of Shake It Records in Cincinnati, OH - his band was right behind him, he was there to play. For over an hour a packed house was treated to six
decades of a life story told in song. Nobody came out and said it, but you could feel it hanging in the air, "I was here, I got to see this this". This is the document of that May 11th evening. You can hear it for yourself in all its raw glory. And if you listen really closely you might get a itch of what was in the air that night, genuineness.  And as Charlie would and did say, May the good Lord bless and keep you.

BuyCincy is proud to team up with Bughouse Video, "Cincinnati’s only independently-owned arthouse video rental store" for a BuyCincy exclusive column. The crew from Bughouse will be stopping by on a regular basis to give us their picks for new releases, hidden gems, or anything they think you might dig.

Perfume - The Story of a Murderer
Review by Jessica

Jean-Baptiste Grunuis (Ben Whishaw) is born under his mother's fish market table in an 18th century France open air market. After being almost intentionally smothered by his new mother he is rescued and sent to an orphanage where he realizes his gift...his magnificent olfactory sense. After the orphanage and a stint as a tanner he begs to apprentice with a perfumer (Dustin Hoffman) who reluctantly takes him on, but then learns that his young worker has the most remarkable talent for creating tantalizing and seductive scents.