August 22, 2021

The Very Best of the Carter Family

Not Now Music - NOT3CD297
60 Original Recordings on 3CDs
Not Now Music - NOT3CD297

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: March 15, 2019
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
[Disc One]
01 Wildwood Flower
02 Anchored In Love
03 Wabash Cannonball
04 The Little Black Train
05 Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
06 I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
07 Lulu Walls
08 Maple On The Hill
09 The Dying Soldier
10 Kitty Waltz
11 Diamonds In The Rough
12 Just A Few More Days
13 Black Jack David
14 The Rambling Boy
15 Sweet Fern
16 Answer To Weeping Willow
17 Waves On The Sea
18 There's No One Like Mother To Me
19 He Never Came Back
20 Bury Me Beneath The Willow
[Disc Two]
01 The Picture On The Wall
02 Keep On The Sunny Side
03 Sailor Boy
04 The Foggy Mountain Top
05 Forsaken Love
06 In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain
07 Chewing Gum
08 We Parted By The Riverside
09 Just Another Broken Heart
10 Single Girl, Married Girl
11 My Clinch Mountain Home
12 On The Rock Where Moses Stood
13 My Old Cottage Home
14 They Call Her Mother
15 The Mountains Of Tennessee
16 In The Shadow Of The Pines
17 Little Girl That Played On My Knee
18 The Grave On The Green Hillside
19 When I'm Gone
20 When The Evening Sun Goes Down
[Disc Three]
01 John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
02 Angel Band
03 I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
04 The Titanic
05 Little Darling, Pal Of Mine
06 Coal Miner's Blues
07 Lover's Lane
08 Who's That Knocking On My Window
09 In The Valley Of The Shenandoah
10 My Dixie Darling
11 The Wandering Boy
12 There'll Be No Distinction There
13 Dark Haired True Lover
14 You Denied Your Love
15 Lonesome Valley
16 Meet Me By The Moonlight Alone
17 You Are My Flower
18 God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
19 The Storms Are On The Ocean
20 Farewell Nellie
[Credits]
Sara Carter (guitar/autoharp/vocals) Maybelle Carter (guitar/vocals) A.P. Carter (vocals)
[Notes]
It has been argued that one day in history marks the real beginning of country music... On 31 July 1927 talent scout Ralph Peer arrived in Bristol, Tennessee offering anyone and everyone who came along $50 for new songs. Among those who arrived and auditioned that historic day was A.P. Carter, who arrived with his wife Sara and sister in law Maybelle. Ralph Peer later said that his talent lay in being where the lightning is going to strike . Peer recognised that the songs which poured out of the Carter Family were historic, but also extremely marketable. For the next 15 years, the Carter Family dominated the airwaves of American radio. But such was their legacy that nearly a century on, the music that the Carters injected into the mainstream lives on. The material heard on this comprehensive 3CD collection formed the foundation of not one, but three important strands in the development of popular music. It was the songs of the Carter Family which underpinned country & western music, the 1950s skiffle boom and the 1960s folk revival.

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