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The Carter Family were pioneers of Country music but their influence was far reaching and impacted future performers of other genres such as folk, pop/rock and even Southern gospel. This 2CD set celebrates their early material (1927-1941) and includes Keep On The Sunnyside', 'Wabash Cannonball', 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' title track 'Wildwood Flower' plus many more classic tracks. CD 1 1. Wildwood Flower 2. Keep On The Sunny Side 3. Wabash Cannonball 4. John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man 5. Worried Man Blues 6. River Of Jordan 7. Anchored In Love 8. Where We ll Never Grow Old 9. Hello Stanger 10. Ill Be Home Someday 11. Faded Coat Of Blue 12. Lonesome Pine Special 13. The Little Log Hut In The Lane 14. On The Rock Where Moses Stood 15. Something Got Hold Of Me 16. Tell Me That You Love Me 17. The Rambling Boy 18. Sow Em On The Mountain 19. Happiest Days Of All 20. Lonesome Homesick Blues 21. The Poor Orphan Child 22. I Aint Gonna Work Tomorrow 23. When This Evening Sun Goes Down 24. Will You Miss Me When Im Gone 25. Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow Tree CD 2 1. My Homes Across The Blue Ridge Mountains 2. Are You Lonesome Tonight? 3. My Dixie Darling 4. Motherless Children 5. Give Me Your Love And Ill Give You Mine 6. The Cannonball 7. The Wayworn Traveller 8. When Silver Threads Are Gold Again 9. Theres No One Like Mother To Me 10. Single Girl, Married Girl 11. The Last Move For Me 12. Jealous Hearted Me 13. Carters Blues 14. In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain 15. Jimmie Brown The Newsboy 16. When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland 17. In The Valley Of Shenandoah 18. No Telephone In Heaven 19. Jim Blakes Message 20. Chewing Gum 21. The Broken Down Tramp 22. Answer To Weeping Willow 23. Youve Been A Friend To Me 24. Lay My Head Beneath The Rose 25. Never Let The Devil Get The Upper Hand
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This Not Now compilation is attractively packaged and presents vintage music from the 20th century. Running time CD1,73 minutes and CD2,76 minutes. The Carter Family was a country music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. The 50 recordings in this set date from 1927 through to 1941 and are among the most representative of their 300 plus output which were all steeped in Southern folklore and history. Songwriter credits and years of recording are given and the liner notes come from Michael Heatley. Sound quality which has been restored is crisp but retains the vintage feel. A must for collectors of the genre.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Inspired by an account of AP Carter's quest to preserve the folk tradition of rural America in Amanda Petrusich's excellent book, It Still Moves, I determined it was time I sampled the delights of The Carter Family to a greater extent than I'd been able to on assorted TV programmes.
The first thing to say about this collection is that it's great value for money - fifty tracks for a few quid is amazing, especially as the music has been remastered to the point where it's not possible to hear the eight decades which separate us from the recording of some of them. The liner notes are brief but informative, telling the reader about how different artistes have adapted Carter's music for their own songs, amongst other things. Dylan is one such mentioned, but I also noticed that the tune to Motherless Children bore an uncanny resemblance to Gillian Welch's No One Knows My Name, and that Wildwood Flower itself formed the basis of Emmylou Harris's Carter-inspired track on All I Intended To Be.
Levon Helm's tribute, on his album Dirt Farmer, was to just sing Single Girl, Married Girl more or less straight.
Whilst to 21st Century ears the production is charmingly unsophisticated, the liner notes point out that Maybelle's guitar playing was, in its day, revolutionary, and in its own way one of the reasons The Carter Family have gone down in the annals, so it's worth a listen just for that.
Much more, however, this is an indispensable piece of Americana.
The first thing to say about this collection is that it's great value for money - fifty tracks for a few quid is amazing, especially as the music has been remastered to the point where it's not possible to hear the eight decades which separate us from the recording of some of them. The liner notes are brief but informative, telling the reader about how different artistes have adapted Carter's music for their own songs, amongst other things. Dylan is one such mentioned, but I also noticed that the tune to Motherless Children bore an uncanny resemblance to Gillian Welch's No One Knows My Name, and that Wildwood Flower itself formed the basis of Emmylou Harris's Carter-inspired track on All I Intended To Be.
Levon Helm's tribute, on his album Dirt Farmer, was to just sing Single Girl, Married Girl more or less straight.
Whilst to 21st Century ears the production is charmingly unsophisticated, the liner notes point out that Maybelle's guitar playing was, in its day, revolutionary, and in its own way one of the reasons The Carter Family have gone down in the annals, so it's worth a listen just for that.
Much more, however, this is an indispensable piece of Americana.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Did you ever wonder where many of those great old country songs come from... this wonderful double CD set (an unbelievable bargain) contains 50 tracks by the first family of country music. The carter Family were one of the first major country acts and bridge the gap between Country and Folk. Their song collecting, revolutionary music (yes, revolutionary... white people using the guitar for melody... a WOMAN playing such a style of guitar)influenced generations to come: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash to name a few. Songs like "Wabash Cannonball", "Are You Lonesome Tonight" (yes, it existed waaaay before Elvis) and, of course, "Wildwood Flower" are still standards of Country singers today. However, a word of warning to those who think Country begins and ends with taylor Swift (lovely tho' she is), these tracks are not high-tec, polished pop tunes. This is old "Old Time" and can get a bit repetitive in the tune department. Perhaps the only minus is that the famous "Will the Circle be Unbroken" isn't present, but with 50 other songs to listen too, maybe I'm just a little greedy to expect it all.
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