The Carter Family In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (12-CD Deluxe Box Set)

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The Carter Family: In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (12-CD Deluxe Box Set)
The single most important event in the history of country music.' That was how Johnny Cash characterized the first Carter Family session in Bristol, Tennessee in 1927. That epochal first session is here, together with all of the recordings made by the original Carter Family between 1927 and 1941. Here are the Anglo-Celtic ballads, mountain songs, blues, and popular songs that formed the bedrock of country music, rendered as plaintively and hauntingly as only the Carter Family could render them.
Country people have always been sacred and sentimental people,' declared Carter Family patriarch, A.P., and the 307 songs collected in this unique complete 12-CD edition reflect that judgement. This collection includes all of the Carters' recordings for Victor, ARC, Decca, APS, Columbia and Bluebird complete for the first time. Here are the original versions of country and folk classics like Wildwood Flower, Wabash Cannon Ball, The Storms Are On The Ocean and, of course, Will The Circle Be Unbroken.
Many of these recordings are appearing for the first time on CD, and the sound of these ageless classics has been digitally enhanced without damaging their integrity or purity. All known photographs of the original Carter Family have been included. Mother Maybelle's personal photo collection has been included as well as all the photos belonging to Janette Carter, some previously unpublished, and there is a full-length newly-researched Carter Family biography by preeminent country music historian Charles Wolfe. 'These recordings are archetypal and timeless,' writes Wolfe. 'They are as elemental as the wind or water, and have the simple beauty of the landscape of (the Carters' home in) Poor Valley. It is hard to underestimate the importance of the Carter Family to country music, and to American music in general'.
The set includes a taped interview by Ed Kahn and Mike Seeger with both Maybelle and Sara in 1963. It also includes a written introduction by Johnny Cash.
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Article properties: The Carter Family: In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (12-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Interpret: The Carter Family
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Album titlle: In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (12-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Genre Country
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Label Bear Family Records
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
- Preiscode LK
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Artikelart Box set
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EAN: 4000127158659
- weight in Kg 3.1
Carter Family, The - In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (12-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1 | ||||
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01 | Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow | The Carter Family |
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02 | Little Log Cabin By Sea | The Carter Family |
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03 | The Poor Orphan Child | The Carter Family |
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04 | The Storms Are On The Ocean | The Carter Family |
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05 | Single Girl, Married Girl | The Carter Family |
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06 | The Wandering Boy | The Carter Family |
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07 | Meet Me By The Moonlight, Alone | The Carter Family |
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08 | Little Darling, Pal Of Mine | The Carter Family |
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09 | Keep On The Sunny Side | The Carter Family |
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10 | Anchored In Love | The Carter Family |
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11 | John Hardy Was A Desperate Man | The Carter Family |
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12 | I Ain't Goin' To Work Tomorrow | The Carter Family |
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13 | Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? | The Carter Family |
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14 | River Of Jordan | The Carter Family |
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15 | Chewing Gum | The Carter Family |
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16 | Wildwood Flower | The Carter Family |
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17 | I Have No One To Love Me | The Carter Family |
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18 | Forsaken Love | The Carter Family |
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19 | Sweet Fern | The Carter Family |
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20 | My Clinch Mountain Home | The Carter Family |
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21 | God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign | The Carter Family |
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22 | I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes | The Carter Family |
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23 | Little Moses | The Carter Family |
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24 | Lulu Wall | The Carter Family |
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25 | The Grave On The Green Hillside | The Carter Family |
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Carter Family, The - In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (12-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2 | ||||
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01 | Don't Forget This Song | The Carter Family |
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02 | The Foggy Mountain Top | The Carter Family |
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03 | Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me | The Carter Family |
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04 | Diamonds In The Rough | The Carter Family |
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05 | Engine One-Forty Three | The Carter Family |
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06 | The Homestead On The Farm | The Carter Family |
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07 | The Cyclone Of Rye Cove | The Carter Family |
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08 | Motherless Children | The Carter Family |
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09 | When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland | The Carter Family |
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10 | No Telephone In Heaven | The Carter Family |
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11 | Western Hobo | The Carter Family |
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12 | Carter's Blues | The Carter Family |
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13 | Wabash Cannonball | The Carter Family |
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14 | A Distant Land To Roam | The Carter Family |
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15 | Jimmie Brown The Newsboy | The Carter Family |
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16 | Kitty Waltz | The Carter Family |
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17 | Fond Affection | The Carter Family |
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18 | The Cannon-Ball | The Carter Family |
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19 | The Lovers' Farewell | The Carter Family |
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20 | There's Someone Awaiting For Me | The Carter Family |
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21 | The Little Log Hut In The Lane | The Carter Family |
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22 | When The Springtime Comes Again | The Carter Family |
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23 | When The World's On Fire | The Carter Family |
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24 | I Have An Aged Mother | The Carter Family |
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25 | The Dying Soldier | The Carter Family |
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26 | Worried Man Blues | The Carter Family |
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01 | Lonesome Valley | The Carter Family |
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02 | On The Rock Where Moses Stood | The Carter Family |
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03 | Room In Heaven For Me | The Carter Family |
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04 | Lonesome Pine Special | The Carter Family |
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05 | No More The Moon Shines On Lorena | The Carter Family |
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06 | On My Way To Canaan's Land | The Carter Family |
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07 | Where Shall I Be? | The Carter Family |
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08 | Sow 'em On The Mountain | The Carter Family |
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09 | Darling Nellie Across The Sea | The Carter Family |
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10 | The Birds Were Singing Of You | The Carter Family |
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11 | Weary Prodigal Son | The Carter Family |
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12 | My Old Cottage Home | The Carter Family |
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13 | When I'm Gone | The Carter Family |
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14 | Sunshine In The Shadows | The Carter Family |
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15 | Let The Church Roll On | The Carter Family |
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16 | Lonesome For You | The Carter Family |
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17 | Can't Feel At Home | The Carter Family |
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18 | Why There's A Tear In My Eye (& J. RODGERS) | The Carter Family |
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19 | The Wonderful City (& JIMMY RODGERS) | The Carter Family |
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20 | Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family | The Carter Family |
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21 | The Carter Family And Jimmie Rodgers In Texas | The Carter Family |
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22 | 'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia | The Carter Family |
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23 | Happiest Days Of All | The Carter Family |
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24 | Picture On The Wall | The Carter Family |
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25 | Amber Tresses | The Carter Family |
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01 | I Never Loved But One | The Carter Family |
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02 | Tell Me That You Love Me | The Carter Family |
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03 | Where We'll Never Grow Old | The Carter Family |
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04 | We Will March Through The Streets Of The City | The Carter Family |
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05 | Sweet As The Flowers In May Time | The Carter Family |
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06 | Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven | The Carter Family |
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07 | My Little Home In Tennessee | The Carter Family |
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08 | The Sun Of The Soul | The Carter Family |
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09 | If One Won't Another One Will | The Carter Family |
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10 | The Broken Hearted Lover | The Carter Family |
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11 | Two Sweethearts | The Carter Family |
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12 | The Winding Stream | The Carter Family |
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13 | I Wouldn't Mind Dying | The Carter Family |
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14 | The Spirit Of Love Watches Over Me | The Carter Family |
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15 | The Church In The Wildwood | The Carter Family |
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16 | Give Me Roses While I Live | The Carter Family |
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17 | I Never Will Marry | The Carter Family |
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18 | On The Sea Of Galilee | The Carter Family |
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19 | Home By The Sea | The Carter Family |
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20 | When The Roses Come Again | The Carter Family |
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21 | I Loved You Better Than You Knew | The Carter Family |
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22 | This Is Like Heaven To Me | The Carter Family |
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23 | See That My Grave Is Kept Green | The Carter Family |
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24 | Over The Garden Wall | The Carter Family |
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25 | Gold Watch And Chain | The Carter Family |
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26 | School House On The Hill | The Carter Family |
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01 | Will My Mother Know Me There? | The Carter Family |
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02 | Faded Flowers | The Carter Family |
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03 | Poor Little Orphaned Boy | The Carter Family |
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04 | On A Hill Lone And Gray | The Carter Family |
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05 | Cowboy Jack | The Carter Family |
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06 | I'll Be All Smiles Tonight | The Carter Family |
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07 | Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbeth | The Carter Family |
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08 | Darling Little Joe | The Carter Family |
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09 | Happy Or Lonesome | The Carter Family |
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10 | On Little World | The Carter Family |
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11 | Darling Daisies | The Carter Family |
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12 | The East Virginia Blues | The Carter Family |
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13 | Lovers Return | The Carter Family |
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14 | It'll Aggravate Your Soul | The Carter Family |
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15 | Hello, Central! Give Me Heaven | The Carter Family |
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16 | I'm Working On Building | The Carter Family |
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17 | You're Been Fooling Me, Baby | The Carter Family |
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18 | Longing For Old Virginia | The Carter Family |
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19 | March Winds Goin' To Blow My Blues All Away | The Carter Family |
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20 | There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy | The Carter Family |
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21 | Home In Tennessee | The Carter Family |
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22 | Are You Tired Of Me, My Darling | The Carter Family |
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23 | I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart | The Carter Family |
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24 | My Heart's Tonight In Texas | The Carter Family |
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25 | There's No Hiding Place Down Here | The Carter Family |
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26 | Cowboy's Wild Song To His Herd | The Carter Family |
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01 | The Evening Bells Are Ringing | The Carter Family |
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02 | The Mountains Of Tennessee | The Carter Family |
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03 | I'll Be Home Some Day | The Carter Family |
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04 | Faded Coat Of Blue | The Carter Family |
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05 | Sailor Boy | The Carter Family |
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06 | Glory To The Lamb | The Carter Family |
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07 | Behind Those Stone Walls | The Carter Family |
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08 | Sinking In The Lonesome Sea | The Carter Family |
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09 | He Took A White Rose From Her Hair | The Carter Family |
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10 | Can The Circle Be Unbroken (Bye And Bye) | The Carter Family |
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11 | Let's Be Lovers Again | The Carter Family |
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12 | Your Mother Still Prays (For You, Jack) | The Carter Family |
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13 | Kissing Is A Crime | The Carter Family |
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14 | Don't Forget Me Little Darling | The Carter Family |
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15 | Sad And Lonesome Day | The Carter Family |
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16 | By The Touch Of Her Hand | The Carter Family |
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17 | East Virginia Blues No. 2 | The Carter Family |
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18 | My Old Virginia Home | The Carter Family |
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19 | My Virginia Rose Is Blooming | The Carter Family |
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20 | My Texas Girl | The Carter Family |
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21 | No Others's Bride I'll Be | The Carter Family |
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22 | Gathering Flowers From The Hillside | The Carter Family |
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23 | Gospel Ship | The Carter Family |
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24 | The Little Black Train | The Carter Family |
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25 | Keep On The Sunny Side | The Carter Family |
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26 | River Of Jordan | The Carter Family |
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01 | Lonesome Valley | The Carter Family |
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02 | God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign | The Carter Family |
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03 | Single Girl, Married Girl | The Carter Family |
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04 | The Fate Of Dewey Lee | The Carter Family |
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05 | Wildwood Flower | The Carter Family |
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06 | Sea Of Galilee | The Carter Family |
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07 | Don't Forget This Song | The Carter Family |
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08 | My Clinch Mountain Home | The Carter Family |
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09 | The Storms Are On The Ocean | The Carter Family |
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10 | Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone | The Carter Family |
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11 | Broken Hearted Lover | The Carter Family |
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12 | Little Darling Pal Of Mine | The Carter Family |
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13 | The Homestead On The Farm | The Carter Family |
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14 | Cannon Ball Blues | The Carter Family |
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15 | Meet Me By The Moonlight Alone | The Carter Family |
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16 | On The Rock Where Moses Stood | The Carter Family |
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17 | Lulu Walls | The Carter Family |
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18 | I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes | The Carter Family |
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19 | Worried Man Blues | The Carter Family |
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20 | My Dixie Darling | The Carter Family |
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21 | Give Me Your Love And I'll Give You Mine | The Carter Family |
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22 | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | The Carter Family |
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23 | The Last Move For Me | The Carter Family |
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24 | The Wayworn Traveler | The Carter Family |
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25 | Just Another Broken Heart | The Carter Family |
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26 | When Silver Threads Are Gold Again | The Carter Family |
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01 | There's No One Like Mother To Me | The Carter Family |
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02 | In A Little Village Churchyard | The Carter Family |
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03 | Jealous Hearted Me | The Carter Family |
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04 | My Native Home | The Carter Family |
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05 | Sweet Heaven In My View | The Carter Family |
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06 | No Depression | The Carter Family |
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07 | Bonnie Blue Eyes | The Carter Family |
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08 | My Honey Lou | The Carter Family |
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09 | In The Shadow Of The Pines | The Carter Family |
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10 | Answer To Weeping Willow | The Carter Family |
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11 | You've Been A Friend To Me | The Carter Family |
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12 | Where The Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way | The Carter Family |
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13 | Lay My Head Beneath The Rose | The Carter Family |
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14 | No Depression In Heaven | The Carter Family |
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15 | My Native Home | The Carter Family |
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16 | Jealous Hearted Me | The Carter Family |
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17 | A Distant Land To Roam | The Carter Family |
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18 | I'm Working On A Building | The Carter Family |
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19 | East Virginia Blues | The Carter Family |
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20 | Dixie Darling | The Carter Family |
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21 | Keep On The Sunny Side | The Carter Family |
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22 | Kissin'Is A Crime | The Carter Family |
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23 | Single Girl, Married Girl | The Carter Family |
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24 | Little Darling Pal Of Mine | The Carter Family |
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25 | Lonesome Valley | The Carter Family |
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26 | Cannonball Blues | The Carter Family |
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27 | Happy Or Lonesome | The Carter Family |
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01 | Are You Lonesome Tonight | The Carter Family |
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02 | Just Another Broken Heart | The Carter Family |
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03 | The Broken Down Tramp | The Carter Family |
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04 | Lover's Lane | The Carter Family |
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05 | Hold Fast To The Right | The Carter Family |
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06 | Lord I'm In Your Care | The Carter Family |
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07 | Funny When You Feel That Way | The Carter Family |
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08 | In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain | The Carter Family |
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09 | Hello Stranger | The Carter Family |
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10 | Never Let The Devil Get The Upper Hand Of You | The Carter Family |
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11 | When This Evening Sun Goes Down | The Carter Family |
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12 | Jim Blake's Message | The Carter Family |
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13 | Honey In The Rock | The Carter Family |
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14 | Look How This World Has Made A Change | The Carter Family |
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15 | The Little Girl That Played On My Knee | The Carter Family |
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16 | You Better Let That Liar Alone | The Carter Family |
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17 | Farewell Nellie | The Carter Family |
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18 | The Only Girl (I Ever Cared About) | The Carter Family |
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19 | Goodbye To The Plains | The Carter Family |
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20 | My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains | The Carter Family |
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21 | Dark Haired True Lover | The Carter Family |
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22 | He Never Came Back | The Carter Family |
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23 | Happy In The Prison | The Carter Family |
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24 | Walking In The King's Highway | The Carter Family |
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25 | St.Regious Girl | The Carter Family |
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26 | Just A Few More Days | The Carter Family |
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01 | Bring Back My Boy | The Carter Family |
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02 | It Is Better Farther On | The Carter Family |
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03 | Charlie And Nellie | The Carter Family |
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04 | Cuban Soldier | The Carter Family |
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05 | The Heart That Was Broken For Me | The Carter Family |
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06 | You're Nothing More To Me | The Carter Family |
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07 | Stern Old Bachelor | The Carter Family |
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08 | Little Joe | The Carter Family |
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09 | Reckless Motorman | The Carter Family |
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10 | You Denied Your Love | The Carter Family |
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11 | Oh, Take Me Back | The Carter Family |
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12 | You Are My Flower | The Carter Family |
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13 | Who's That Knockin' On My Window | The Carter Family |
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14 | They Call Her Mother | The Carter Family |
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15 | Coal Miner's Blues | The Carter Family |
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16 | Young Freda Bolt | The Carter Family |
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17 | Little Poplar Log House On The Hill | The Carter Family |
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18 | The Dying Mother | The Carter Family |
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19 | Buddies In The Saddle | The Carter Family |
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20 | Heaven's Radio | The Carter Family |
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21 | Beautiful Home | The Carter Family |
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22 | There'll Be No Distinction There | The Carter Family |
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23 | Give Him One More As He Goes | The Carter Family |
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24 | Lonesome For You Darling | The Carter Family |
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25 | Blackie's Gunman | The Carter Family |
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26 | You've Got To Righten That Wrong | The Carter Family |
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27 | Meeting In The Air | The Carter Family |
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28 | My Home Among The Hills | The Carter Family |
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01 | Black Jack David | The Carter Family |
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02 | Look Away From The Cross | The Carter Family |
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03 | We Shall Rise | The Carter Family |
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04 | I Found You Among The Roses | The Carter Family |
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05 | Bear Creek Blues | The Carter Family |
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06 | I'll Never Forsake You | The Carter Family |
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07 | Beautiful Isle O'er The Sea | The Carter Family |
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08 | It's A Long Long Road To Travel Alone | The Carter Family |
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09 | Why Do You Cry, Little Darling | The Carter Family |
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10 | You Tied A Love Knot In My Heart | The Carter Family |
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11 | Lonesome Homesick Blues | The Carter Family |
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12 | Dark And Stormy Weather | The Carter Family |
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13 | In The Valley Of The Shenandoah | The Carter Family |
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14 | Girl On The Greenbrier Shore | The Carter Family |
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15 | Something Got A Hold Or Me | The Carter Family |
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16 | Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room | The Carter Family |
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17 | Keep On The Firing Line | The Carter Family |
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18 | The Wave On The Sea | The Carter Family |
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19 | The Rambling Boy | The Carter Family |
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20 | You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down | The Carter Family |
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21 | Why There's A Tear In... (& J. RODGERS)(alt) | The Carter Family |
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22 | Jimmie Rodgers visits The Carter Family (alt) | The Carter Family |
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23 | Sinking In The Lonesome Sea (alt) | The Carter Family |
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24 | Lonesome Valley (alt) | The Carter Family |
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25 | Cannon Ball Blues (alt) | The Carter Family |
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26 | Worried Man Blues (alt) | The Carter Family |
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27 | Single Girl, Married Girl (alt) | The Carter Family |
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01 | Sara & Maybelle Carter Interview, 1963 | The Carter Family |
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02 | The Ship That Never Returned | The Carter Family |
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03 | Jesse James | The Carter Family |
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04 | I Was Born 4000 Years Ago | The Carter Family |
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05 | I'm Leaving You | The Carter Family |
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06 | Re-Autoharp/Fingerpicking/Allie Lee Intro | The Carter Family |
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07 | Her Favorite Guitar Pickers | The Carter Family |
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08 | The First Grand Ole Opry Appearance | The Carter Family |
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09 | How The Maybelle Style Developed | The Carter Family |
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10 | Thank You's From Musicians | The Carter Family |
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11 | Do You Still Have Your Original Guitar? | The Carter Family |
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12 | An Autoharp Discussion | The Carter Family |
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13 | The Wildwood Flower Discussion | The Carter Family |
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14 | The Floyd Cramer Reference | The Carter Family |
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15 | The Kids Dig That Style/The College Audience | The Carter Family |
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16 | How Many Songs Did You Record In Your Career? | The Carter Family |
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17 | The Early Recording And Radio Background | The Carter Family |
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18 | Early Record Sales | The Carter Family |
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19 | Discussion about A.P. And Sara Carter | The Carter Family |
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The Carter Family
In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain
To maces spring
A traveler coming out of Kingsport, Tennessee and into the border town of Gate City, Virginia could easily miss the turn-off; it is a narrow, two-lane blacktop that wanders over to the mountains in the east, and is currently named highway 58. Where it runs into the Kingsport highway there are two signs to help guide the traveler; one says 'To Hiltons' and the other says 'Carter Fold' with an arrow. Hiltons the traveler can find on his map, a small village beneath what the locals call Pine Ridge. But when you get to Hiltons, you leave 58 and make a swing up to the northeast on an even smaller highway, county route 614. Now you are going northeast, down a long verdant valley with the towering Clinch Mountain on your left and the rest of Pine Ridge on your right, to the south. Soon a sign appears reading 'A.P. Carter Highway.' A casual tourist might wonder about this. Who was A.P. Carter? A local politician? A legendary frontiersman? A war hero? One of those local characters who manage to get roads and bridges named after them? But any visitors who know the slightest thing about music don't have to wonder. They nod with recognition when they see the name, and many begin to hum a song that they associate with the name. They know that A.P. Carter was not a politician nor a bear hunter nor a war hero. He was more important than any of those -- he was a singer and a songwriter and a song collector, and what he and his wife and his wife's cousin did in this valley some seventy years ago was to help change the face of American music.
A few miles past the sign, the traveler comes into a community called Maces Spring; on the official maps and mail routes, it is listed as 'Spring' in the singular, but all the locals call it 'Springs,' in the plural. To the left a big barn-like building stands right on the road, and it is here that the children of A.P. Carter every week stage shows to celebrate his style of music. Past the barn is a small country store, built by A.P. when he retired from music in the 1940s, and which is today a small, gem-like museum. Here the visitor can see copies of the old Victrola records from the 1920s that won the Carter Family their initial fame; here they can see the old Underwood typewriter that A.P. used to write down the words to songs he collected; here are the dresses the two women wore, and the dusky suit that A.P. used. There are no rhinestones here, no Nudie specials with stripes and piping. It is a museum as simple and unassuming as a Carter Family song.
Further down the road, and up a crooked little driveway to the top of a hill, is the Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church. It's been modernized and remodelled, but it still looks a lot like it did 90 years ago, when A.P. Carter attended here and added his odd bass voice to the singing. Like many rural churches, Mt. Vernon keeps its cemetary out behind the main building, and it is here that two of the Carters rest: A.P., who died in 1960, and his wife Sara, who died in 1979. Maybelle, who died in 1978, rests in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Back down on the road, you can see the houses they all lived in, still in fine shape, still occupied, in some cases by Carter relatives. What strikes one is how close together all these places are, all within walking distance, all tucked in the valley between two huge mountains. It is an unassuming place to be the locus of such creativity and such artistry, to be the source of such a large part of classic American music. The highway itself goes on to the east, to a hamlet called Mendota, but for musicians and lovers of music, Maces Spring is as far as it goes. Here is the wellspring; here is the energy; here are the ghosts. Here, after all, was where the journey began, where a singing trio named The Carter Family forged a music that would change the face of American culture. It was here, when the 20th century was still bright and new, that these three remarkable people forged their plans: to take the old mountain music of their fathers and mothers and cousins and uncles and make it appealing to a general audience, and adapt it to the new mass media of the age, records and radio. It is here, in the shadow of the Clinch Mountain that he wrote about in so many of his songs, that A.P. and Sara and Maybelle began their journey.
A FAMILY FORMS
They called the valley Poor Valley, though no one could remember exactly why. A.P. used to joke that it was called that because there were so many poor people in it. In the 1920s, much of the valley remained as it had been for years, lush with crops and heavy timber. People lived much as their grandparents had, an easy day-to-day life that was only starting to be impacted by the new cash economy. It was an ideal setting for the preservation of the old traditional music, a bucolic vale that called up Wordsworth's images of a bird-haunted English countryside. And yet the valley was surrounded by elements of the new 20th century technology that were making their way into the mountains. A few miles to the northwest, at Big Stone Gap and Appalachia and Norton, the coal mines were in full gear, and the young mountain boys were finding work in the mines and living in company towns. A few miles to the southwest, just over the Tennessee line, the new town of Kingsport was bringing serious industry to the region.
Kingsport was an early 'planned town,' created about 1917 by the CC & O (Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio) Railroad and was an early cross between a company town and a structured model city. An industrial hub from the beginning, it had acquired by 1927 ten industries and over 3,000 jobs. Many of these were at the giant Eastman (Kodak) plant, which worked on the cutting edge of applied technology, and during World War II had started the Holston Army Ammunition Plant, which became the largest such facility in the world. It was really Kingsport that was closer to the Carter homestead than Bristol or Johnson City, and in 1927 it was a new, bustling community that was paving the way for a new mountain economy.
Carters had been all up and down the valley since the Revolutionary War; there were as many as four separate families of Carters, leading to more than a little historical confusion. It does appear, though, that one Thomas Carter, a relative of A.P.'s, was in the valley by 1784 when he built Carter's Fort, an outpost on the old Wilderness Road near present-day Ryecove. On December 15, 1891, two more Carters, Robert and Mollie Carter, saw the birth of the first of what would be eight children: he was Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, known as Doc for short. As the boy grew, he heard his mother sing old ballads like The Brown Girl, and his father sing the gospel songs of the mountain churches. He was a bright, inquisitive lad, but from the start suffered from a minor physical affliction in the form of a slight palsy which made his hands shake. His mother wondered about this, and in later years told her grandchildren a story that she thought explained it. About two months before A.P. was born, she had been up on the mountain picking up apples when a sudden thunderstorm came up. Lightning began to flash, and before she could seek shelter, a bolt struck the ground right next to her. It somehow affected the unborn child -- it "marked" him, as she said -- and when A.P. was born, he had the palsy. In later years, this did affect his ability to play the fiddle as well as he might have, and on occasion interfered with his ability to keep good rhythm on the guitar.
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