Believe it or not, this is a beautiful album, and a good evangelical antidote to our contemporary allegorizing of personal evil. As Kevin Spacey / Kaiser Soze quips in The Usual Suspects: "The greatest trick the devil ever played was making people think he doesn't exist."

The Louvin Brothers are to be commended, as well, for providing their song "Satan's Jeweled Crown" for Emmylou Harris, which has got to be one of her most beautiful performances.