(Far more important than the Eagles getting back together ...)
Far more important than the Eagles getting back together was the 1966 reunion of Sara and Maybelle Carter. They had split up in 1944, and their reunion was midwifed by Johnny Cash. If anything, the advancing years had made them sound better. They did a lot of old Carter Family songs like The Ship That Never Returned, Sun Of The Soul, Weary Prodigal Son and Happiest Days Of All, and they did some songs that neither had recorded before, like Goin' Home and When The Band Is Playing Dixie. For CD reissue, this historic LP is rounded out with an additional master, plus a Maybelle Carter album from 1965 that saw her tackle a wide range of material from San Antonio Rose and Tom Cat's Kitten, to new songs by Tom T. Hall and Johnny Cash. Altogether, 24 pieces of music history plus a 20 page booklet.
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(This is a stunning release to file alongside CRT #35 and ...)
This is a stunning release to file alongside CRT #35 and CRT #37, covering the formative years of Chet Atkins, drawn from radio shows with the Carter Sisters. Chet solos throughout, as 8 tracks are solo guitar tunes, and he also plays fiddle on 3 more tracks! All the girls (June, Anita and Helen) are in superb form, and there are some marvelous moments from Mother Maybelle, including a 5-stringed banjo. 1949 recordings heard here for the first time.
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(18 classics of early Country music from the genre's pre-e...)
18 classics of early Country music from the genre's pre-eminent originators. The Carter's unprecedented repertoire of Anglo-Saxon folk songs helped them secure a unique position in American musical history by helping establish the Country and Hillbilly genres in the immediate pre war years. These recordings made between 1927 and 1934 are the true roots of Country music. Tracks include ""Wildwood Flower"", ""My Clinch Mountain Home"", ""The Foggy Mountain Top"", ""Keep On The Sunnyside"" and ""I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes"".
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(Tracks :- My Darling's Home At Last ~ Kneeling Drunkard's...)
Tracks :- My Darling's Home At Last ~ Kneeling Drunkard's Plea ~ Why Do You Weep Dear Willow ~ This Is Someone's Last Day ~ Walk A Little Closer ~ A Picture A Ring And A Curl ~ Day Of Wrath ~ I've got A Home Up In Glory ~ Blue Skies And Sunshine ~ Day They Laid Mary Away ~ Don't Wait ~ Down On My Knees ~ Little Orphan Girl ~ God Sent My Little Girl ~ Willow Will You Weep For Me ~ Gotta Find Me Somebody To Love ~ A trinket Of Shiny Gold ~ I've Got My Share Of Trouble ~ Columbus GA ~ Foggy Mountain Top ~ Fair And Tender Ladies ~ Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door ~ I Never Will Marry ~ Wildwood Flower ~ He's Solid Gone ~ You Are My Flower ~ I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow.
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Maybelle Addington Carter was born on May 10, 1909 and grew up in southwestern Virginia in a rural area near Nickelsville; the daughter of Margaret and Hugh Jack Addington. Her father ran a general store and mill. Music was a major form of entertainment among the mountain families, and members of the Addington brood quickly learned to pick, play, and sing. By the age of twelve, Carter was accomplished on the guitar, autoharp, and banjo.
Maybelle was the guitarist and played autoharp and banjo. She created a unique sound for the group with her innovative 'scratch' style of guitar playing, where she used her thumb to play melody on the bass and middle strings, and her index finger to fill out the rhythm. She was instrumental in moving the guitar from rhythm to the lead instrument. The Carter Family performed together until 1943. While Maybelle and her daughters continued to tour as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, A. P. . left to run a general store in Virginia. From 1952 to 1956, A. P. re-joined The Carter Family with Sara and some of their grown children. After her daughter, Valerie June, known as June, married Johnny Cash in 1968, Maybelle and her daughters were regular performers on his weekly TV show. The Carter Family's signature recordings include "Will the Circle Be Unbroken", "Wildwood Flower, " "Gold Watch and Chain" and "Keep On the Sunny Side" which are today considered country music standards.
Maybelle Carter made occasional solo recordings during the 1960s and 1970s, usually full-length albums. Her final such work, a two-record set released on Columbia Records, placed on Billboard's best-selling country albums chart in 1973 when she was 64. Maybelle was also featured on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 recording Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
Maybelle Carter died in 1978 after a few years of poor health, and was interred next to her husband, Ezra, in Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville, Tennessee.
She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. Her music has been recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Emmy Lou Harris, and Willie Nelson, among many others. Maybelle Carter was inducted as part of The Carter Family in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970. In 1993, her image appeared on a U. S. postage stamp honoring the Carter Family. In 2001 she was initiated into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. She would rank No. 8 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002. In 2005, she was portrayed by Sandra Ellis Lafferty in the Johnny Cash biographical film Walk the Line. She was the subject of her granddaughter Carlene Carter's 1990 song "Me and the Wildwood Rose". Her death was the subject of Johnny Cash's song "Tears in the Holston River". In 2010, Lipscomb University in Nashville named the stage in Collins Alumni Auditorium after her. The A. P. and Sara Carter House, A. P. Carter Homeplace, A. P. Carter Store, Maybelle and Ezra Carter House, and Mt. Vernon Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as components of the Carter Family Thematic Resource. In 2007 Carter was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History" because of her musical career.
(Tracks :- My Darling's Home At Last ~ Kneeling Drunkard's...)
(This is a stunning release to file alongside CRT #35 and ...)
(Far more important than the Eagles getting back together ...)
(18 classics of early Country music from the genre's pre-e...)
Carter married Ezra ("E. J. ") Carter, a mail clerk, on March 23, 1926. During their early married life the couple lived in a one-room log cabin with a lean-to kitchen near Maces Springs, Va. , her husband's hometown. They had three daughters, Helen, June, and Anita. Even though she was busy with her career, Carter made her children's clothes, washed, ironed, cooked, and gardened.
