Some bittersweet news today: The next book for Igniter has just been delivered. It is an amazing true-to-life musical Cain and Abel story set in the American heartland. However, while the cowriter was finishing the book, the author passed away. The book is in memory of the very kind, humorous, and talented Charlie Louvin of the Louvin Brothers.

If you are not familiar with the Louvin Brothers, you owe it to yourself to take three minutes to quickly familiarize yourself with them by:

1. Checking out, below, the greatest album cover of all time, from 1959:

2. Listening to the lyrics of the greatest murder ballad of all time, “Knoxville Girl,” which beat gangsta rap to the topic of senseless violence by four decades. Also striking is the unique and haunting close-harmony singing of Charlie and his brother Ira, a notorious country-music bad boy who was shot multiple times by one of his wives and survived–only to die a few years later when his car was struck by a drunk driver in 1965:

I’ll let you know the book’s release date as soon as it’s scheduled, as well as share some excerpts here.