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The Carter Family“On Border Radio - 1939, Vol. 2”CD 412
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Buy It Now!
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Arhoolie presents a second volume of rare border recordings by one of country music's true pioneers. These selections include unique performances by A.P. Carter, Jeanette, Maybelle and the Carter children. Together with Vol. 1 and the upcoming Vol. 3 they serve to present a fuller picture of the Carter family and their music than is available simply from studio recordings.
Also available Vol.1 (CD 411) and Vol.3 (CD 413)
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Listen to some of the tracks!! (uses RealAudio®) 1. Theme / Why There Is A Tear In My Eye 2. Sleep Baby Sleep / Just Another Broken Heart 3. Corina 4. I Can Not Be Your Sweetheart / Red Wing 5. Broken Down Saint, A 6. Weeping Willow 7. You Are My Flower / Gathering Flowers From The Hillside 8. Last Letter, The / I Wouldn't Mind Dying 9. Who's That Knocking At My Window 10. Diamonds In The Rough / Fatal Wedding, The 11. It's Hard To Please Your Mind / Death Is Only A Dream 12. Theme / XET Station Break 13. Theme / Church In The Wildwood, The 14. Are You Tired Of Me, My Darling? / Sourwood Mountain 15. Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie / My Bonnie Blue Eyes 16. Yankee Doodle / Storms On The Ocean 17. Sugar Hill 18. Hello Stranger 19. Cowboy Jack 20. Nobody's Darling / Funny When You Feel That Way 21. Dixie Darling 22. Shortning Bread / Soldier And His Sweetheart 23. Polly Wolly Doodle All Day / My Gold Watch And Chain 24. River Of Jordan 25. I Will Never Marry / God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign 26. Theme Out & XET Station Break |
REVIEWS (of CD 411) “Arhoolie has released The Carter Family on Border Radio: Volume One, an invaluable and previously un-released set of 1939 radio broadcasts originally heard on Station XET, a 'pirate' station on the US/Mexico border.The Carter family consisted of A.P. Carter, his autoharp-playing wife, Sara, his cousin Maybelle, and various Carter grandchildren. Their repertoire has become the American folk and country songbook: 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken,' 'Worried Man Blues,' 'Keep on the Sunny Side,' (the ultimate recording of which is on this Arhoolie CD), 'Wildwood Flower.”' Their recordings convey an unvarnished sincerity, a fidelity to old-fashioned rural values, and quirky humor . . . Fine vocal harmonies carefully blended with sensitive guitar and autoharp support ensure that all of the Carter Family recordings are a pleasure to hear. What Bach is to classical music or Louis Armstrong is to jazz, the Carters are to country. And that Carter legacy continues. Maybelle's daughter June (whom you hear in all of her wobbly 10-year-old glory) married Johnny Cash. You know the rest. This is where the history of country music begins.” (Norman Weinstein — Boston Phoenix) |
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“. . . Rather than having to travel to Mexico to do their daily program, a transcription of a show, advertisements and all, would be recorded in advance near their Texas winter home and the acetate disk shipped to the station for broadcast. The hour-long Carter Family segment aired nightly as part of the Good Neighbor Get Together program . . . Opening as usual with their theme song 'Keep On The Sunny Side,' emcee Brother Bill Guild guides the listener in near play-by-play fashion through an hour's worth of songs, many of which never appeared on the Carter's commercial recordings . . . In addition to providing background on the family and the story behind the acetates from which this material was taken, the liner notes to this collection provide a condensed, but fascinating history of the whole border radio phenomenon.”
(Dan Ferguson — The Narragansett Times) |
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