Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
[Tracklist]
A1 While the Band Is Playing Dixie (04:09)
A2 Higher Ground (03:11)
A3 Lonesome Pine Special (02:13)
A4 Hand That Rocks the Cradler (02:53)
A5 Three Little Strangers (03:20)
A6 The Ship That Never Returned (02:26)
B1 Weary Prodigal Son (02:48)
B2 Sun of the Soul (03:05)
B3 Farther On (03:24)
B4 Happiest Days of All (03:06)
B5 Goin' Home (02:54)
{Credits]
Sara Carter (autoharp/guitar/vocals) Maybelle Carter (autoharp/banjo/guitar/vocals)
Producer: Frank Jones and Don Law, Liner Notes: Johnny Cash, Designer: Thomas Molesky
[Nptes]
Two of the original three Carters reunite for a one-off some twenty years after they'd last sang together, and nearly a decade after the the third original, A.P., had died. The careening, transcendent harmonies that they create are as moving as anything from their heyday, perhaps more so given the context.
The Carter Family represent one of those precious moments in the arts culture where we're all reminded that the real stuff of human yearning and questioning needn't be mediated by the fashions and commercial interests of the self-appointed media elites located in urban centres. A moving album in both theory and actuality.
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