Wildwood Flower [Enhanced]

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June Carter Cash's final album (she died in May, 2003) is a microcosm of a magnificent seven-decade legacy that began in the 1930s when she and her two sisters joined their mother in the Original Carter Family. After years recording with them, alone, and with husband Johnny Cash , her solo career found new life on her 1999 masterpiece Press On. As straightforward as ever, she revisits many Carter Family standards and a few of her lesser-known originals. Yet even on the deeper, darker numbers, her tone is anything but funereal. Her feisty performance of Red Ingle's 1947 novelty "Temptation" ("Tim-Tay-Shun") with Johnny revives the playfulness at the heart of their duets. Her family members, including daughter Carlene Carter, singing backup and the elegant accompaniment from a tiny acoustic band including Norman and Nancy Blake bolster and enhance her weathered voice. In bringing down the curtain herself, as she does on the Carter Family's timeless ballads "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone" and "Wildwood Flower," she demonstrates the grace, class and courage befitting both a Carter—and a Cash. -- Rich Kienzle

Product Description:
Recorded from October 2002 to March 2003 in Mother Maybelle's childhood home in Mae's Springs, Virginia. June is joined by Johnny Cash and A.P. & Sarah Carter's children Joe & Janette Carter, daughter Carlene Carter and grandchildren Laura Cash and Tiffany Carter Love. 13 tracks plus as a bonus video enhancement, video footage of the Wildwood Flower recording sessions that took place September 18th & 19th, 2002 at the Carter Family Estate in Virginia. Dualtone. 2003.

Wildwood Flower,June Carter Cash,Dualtone Music Group,Country,Country & Western,Country-Folk,Pop,Traditional Country

Average customer rating: Great for historical interest...Johnny & June both died within about a year! Mythical and Enchanting Cash-Carter Have To Have cd Great stuff. Dear June

Wildwood Flower June Carter Cash Manufacturer: Dualtone Music Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Press On Keep On the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter Ring of Fire: The Best of June Carter Cash Wildwood Pickin' ASIN: B0000C05MO Release Date: 2003-09-09

Tracks:

1. Keep on the Sunny Side w/ Johnny Cash
2. Road to Kaintuck w/ Johnny Cash
3. Kneeling Drunkards Plea ( Carter Girls intro )
4. Storms are on the Ocean
5. Temptation duet w/ Johnny Cash ( Little June intro )
6. Big Yellow Peaches (June's intro w/ story about Lee Marvin)
7. Alcatraz
8. Sinking in the Lonesome Sea w/ Marty Stuart
9. Church in the Wildwood / Lonesome Valley w/ Joe and Lorrie Carter
10. Cannonball Blues
11. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone w/ Johnny Cash
12. Anchored in Love w/ Joe and Janette Carter & Dale Jett
13. Wildwood Flower w/ Johnny Cash

Product Description

1. Keep On The Sunny Side
2. Road To Kaintuck
3. (Carter Girls Intro) Kneeling Drunkards Plea
4. Storms Are On The Ocean
5. (Little June Intro) Temptation
6. Big Yellow Peaches
7. Alcatraz
8. Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
9. Church In The Wildwood/Lonesome Valley
10. Cannonball Blues
11. Will You Miss Me?
12. Anchored In Love
13. Wildwood Flower


Format: CD

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June Carter Cash's final album (she died in May, 2003) is a microcosm of a magnificent seven-decade legacy that began in the 1930s when she and her two sisters joined their mother in the Original Carter Family. After years recording with them, alone, and with husband Johnny Cash , her solo career found new life on her 1999 masterpiece Press On. As straightforward as ever, she revisits many Carter Family standards and a few of her lesser-known originals. Yet even on the deeper, darker numbers, her tone is anything but funereal. Her feisty performance of Red Ingle's 1947 novelty "Temptation" ("Tim-Tay-Shun") with Johnny revives the playfulness at the heart of their duets. Her family members, including daughter Carlene Carter, singing backup and the elegant accompaniment from a tiny acoustic band including Norman and Nancy Blake bolster and enhance her weathered voice. In bringing down the curtain herself, as she does on the Carter Family's timeless ballads "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone" and "Wildwood Flower," she demonstrates the grace, class and courage befitting both a Carter—and a Cash. -- Rich Kienzle

Customer Reviews:

Great for historical interest...Johnny & June both died within about a year!.......2007-02-21

I owned this CD & have lost or misplaced it. I treasured it due fact that both Johnny & June died within about a year after it was made. I was shopping for karaoke cds & this cd fell from the rack & after reading it I had to have it. I am very pleased.

Mythical and Enchanting.......2006-11-20

Somehow June has captured the Carter family spirit and their impossibly rich history in these songs. I don't remember the last album I purchased where I listened to every song like I do this album. For that reason, I can't point to highlights. It's one special moment after another. It's true that June never had the prettiest voice (she's no Joan Baez), and here it is somewhat faded because of age, but what comes out stronger than anywhere I've heard her (or even Anita) is a sense of strength, pride and leaving a legacy. The same can be said for Johnny's voice and Laura Cash's fiddle. Not to mention the amazing Marty Stuart. Happily, those wonderful talents are all in the background, leaving June front and center to remind us (and it seems like that is what she wants to do) of the power of A.P. Carter and the Carter family's legacy. This is a labor of love, and luckily, one that is accessible to all of us. This is an album to listen to on a rainy Saturday, when you've got the time to sit and relax.

Cash-Carter Have To Have cd.......2006-08-23

This cd is a must have for any Cash Carter fan. The videos are priceless & sad too. Since these are some of their last recordings

Great stuff........2006-08-08

Review by Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

The tracks that comprise Wildwood Flower became June Carter Cash's final recording sessions, and were held from October 2002 to March 2003. Largely a family affair, Wildwood Flower is easily Carter Cash's least polished recording and perhaps her best. Husband Johnny sings in either duet or as backup on almost all the tracks; also singing are daughter Carlene, granddaughter Tiffany Anastasia Lowe, and cousins Joe and Janette Carter (children of Sara and A.P. Carter). Johnny and June's son John Carter Cash produced the album and former son-in-law Marty Stuart makes an appearance or two as well. Creating most of the instrumental merrymaking are Norman and Nancy Blake. And it is fitting that this collection of family and friends created June Carter Cash's recorded epitaph. These songs are intimate, frighteningly so. Her voice, as well as Johnny Cash's, are mere shadows of what once were golden throats, and the songs were by and large written by A.P. Carter, with one by June and a cover of a Leon Russell tune. The ghosts of the original Carter Family hover about uneasily in the mix here, offering shards of old harmonies and broken notes in the title track, "Anchored in Love," "Keep on the Sunny Side," "Road to Kaintuck," "Kneeling Drunkard's Plea," and especially "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone," where the truth strikes a little too close to home. There are a few spoken word intros here (and some historically recorded ones) that are both poignant and humorous -- check out June's observations of actor Lee Marvin on her intro to her song "Big Yellow Peaches." As the family gathers round one last time, the entire history of the country music tradition comes through and pours down around the listener, cracking and breaking and yet more musical than ever. This is the music of the folk as A.P. wrote it. And as such, it is both a credible historical document and, more importantly, the last will and testament of a legend who went back to her beginnings as a way of understanding the continuity of family and song in the present. Wildwood Flower is truly amazing, truly flawed, and heartbreakingly beautiful

Dear June.......2006-08-07

I know this isn't a review for evweryone else. I don't care how you rate it. I want June to know I wrote it for HER.

June,
I know since you've died, not many people have been buying your CD's. There in the dusty corners of the CD store. Even though I never knew you, I know you'd feel terrible. I'm writing this for everyoen to see that you ARE one of the best country singers.

I know you feel neglected, and you feel like a nobody. I think you're great, or else I wouldn't be writing this.


Everyone, June is a wonderful singer, and this CD is great. Don't let it get away! If you're looking for a good CD to start off with, this is the one.

June

Average customer rating: Wildwood Flower ~ The Carter Family is outstanding The first Lead Guitarist Carter Family A good introduction to an influential family An excellent primer on the first family of country music

Wildwood Flower The Carter Family Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Old-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Appalachian | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Country | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family Wildwood Flower Wildwood Pickin' The Carter Family: 1927-1934 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music ASIN: B00004U9MY Release Date: 2000-08-22

Tracks:

1. Wildwood Flower
2. Keep On The Sunny Side
3. Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
4. Little Log Cabin By The Sea
5. Little Darling, Pal Of Mine
6. Anchored In Love
7. John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
8. River Of Jordan
9. Sweet Fern
10. My Clinch Mountain Home
11. I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
12. Lulu Walls
13. Foggy Mountain Top
14. Carter's Blues
15. Wabash Cannonball
16. JImmie Brown The Newsboy
17. The Cannonball
18. Worried Man Blues
19. Lonesome Valley
20. Lonesome Pine Special
21. I Never Will Marry
22. Can The Circle Be Unbroken?
23. My Dixie Darling
24. Oh, Take Me Back
25. You Are My Flower

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While the Carter Family is certainly worthy of deeper exploration, this 25-song compilation provides a very useful overview of the work of one of country music's cornerstone artists. Beginning in the late 1920s, Sara, Maybelle, and A.P. Carter delivered to the rest of the world British and Irish ballads that had been preserved in remote Appalachian regions. By fusing the concept of hillbilly string music with the vocal harmonies of religious music and then attaching this fusion to these timeless songs, they helped give country music its foundation, both sonically and spiritually. As a result, many of these tunes have become distinctively American staples of popular music. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Wildwood Flower ~ The Carter Family is outstanding.......2007-05-13

This CD is terrific. It has over 20 songs sung by one of if not the most famous contributors to bluegrass. I really bought this CD for the title track, but there are a couple others that are near Wildwood Flower's caliber, and a couple other really good ones. The rest aren't bad, those ones just stand out. The one's that stand out are, of course, Wildwood Flower, the very familiar Carter Family song: Keep on the Sunny Side, and also Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow. These are true classics, and always will be. Thank God for bluegrass and the Carter Family. This CD will not disappoint.

The first Lead Guitarist.......2005-12-17

Everyone knows that the Carter Family is the First Family of Country Music, and they, of course, started it all. But, if you listen to the 25 songs here (75 minutes of material), you will soon realize that this is the intro of the Lead Guitar in modern music. Mother Maybelle's guitar runs and leads, are the center of every song in which they are included, and often tends to overwhelm the vocals. You have to ask yourself, just where did she get the idea to play the guitar this way? Any famous name that has carried a Martin, Fender, or Gibson, owes it all to Maybelle. The songs here are in mono, and carry the classic radio sound of "live-recording"; long before studios. It is apparent that this trio was destined to be the originators of America's music: A.P. was the chief songwriter/arranger; Sara was the vocalist, and Maybelle was the musician. These recordings are three-quarters of a century old, yet the basic delivery, and patterns are still found in today's American music. Regardless of your musical taste, this is a must-have album; especially for aspiring guitarists. My one criticism, is the lack of lag time beteween numbers..it's as if the record company (ASV Ltd, Eng) were determined to use as little space as possible, as the songs nearly blend into each other!

Carter Family.......2005-07-23

It's a great addition to my collection of old country music songs from my youth. I loved the CD.

A good introduction to an influential family.......2004-10-24

In the twenties and thirties, country music was just beginning to assert its own identity separate from folk music but the Carter family's music was hugely influential in the development of both country and folk music in America. Not only has the music passed down the generations (tribute albums still appear at regular intervals) but the family has also produced June Carter, who was married for a time to country singer Carl Smith (father of Carlene Carter). More famously, June later married Johnny Cash (father of Rosanne Cash. So the family continues to exert an influence directly as well as via their old songs.

This compilation provides a good overview of their music, though you must allow for the age of the recordings. All the essentials are here including Wildwood flower, Keep on the sunny side, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes (which uses the same tune as Great speckled bird, Wild side of life and It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels), Can the circle be unbroken (better known as Will the circle be unbroken), My Dixie darling (revived by Carlene Carter on her classic album, I fell in love), I never will marry (revived by Linda Ronstadt on her classic album, Simple dreams), Foggy mountain top and You are my flower.

As a basic introduction to the music of the Carter family, this works brilliantly. It doesn't do full justice to their music but boxed sets by JSP and Bear family serve that purpose.

An excellent primer on the first family of country music.......2001-01-04

This compilation features 25 of the Carter Family's classics taken from original 78's and were recorded in between 1927-1938. This collection actually sounds nice concerning the source material, age of recordings, etc and best of all, they are original recordings. Most of these tracks were originally released by RCA Victor, yet there are some later tracks on it as well and it features mainly their signature songs such as the title track, Keep on The Sunny Side, Worried Man Blues (later covered by the Kingston Trio as "A Worried Man"), Can The Circle Be Unbroken (later to be retitled "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" while Mother Maybelle recorded it on guitar originally, it's also worth checking out the re-recording that Maybelle play autoharp on which can be found on the Dirt Band original "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" album which is still in print and can be found right here or your local CD shop), My Dixie Darling, Wabash Cannonball, plus 2 tracks from the Bristol Sessions: Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow and Little Log Cabin By The Sea and many more. If you cannot afford the Bear Family box or the Rounder series or if you just want a nice sampler of their well known songs to enjoy while traveling, this is the best collection on the Carter Family to get and explains why they were inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970.

Average customer rating: Words that will touch your heart.

Lines on the Paper Kate Wolf & the Wildwood Flower Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Close to You Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology Give Yourself To Love (Volumes 1&2) (Live In Concert) Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf Gold In California: A Retrospective Of Recordings, 1975-1985 ASIN: B000003344 Release Date: 1993-09-28

Tracks:

1. I Don't Know Why
2. Lines On The Paper
3. You're Not Standing Like You Used To
4. Picture Puzzle
5. The Heart
6. The Trumpet Vine
7. I Never Knew My Father
8. Amazed to Find
9. Everybody's looking For The Same Thing
10. The Lilac & The Apple
11. Midnight On The Water
12. Lay Me Down Easy

Customer Reviews:

Words that will touch your heart........1999-04-29

It's hard not to fall in love with Kate Wolf. Her songs reach out and fold you into her life, her feelings, her hopes and fears. Her songwriting is straight-forward and laid softly in front of you for you to share in, but with a swing of natural joi de vivre and playfullness that at times belies the sadness that caused the observation. There is a reason that people who bought this album also bought several more Kate Wolf titles!

Average customer rating: Kate captures the 'essence' of the rural west Unbelievable Voice--Highly Recommended

Back Roads Kate Wolf & The Wildwood Flower Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lines on the Paper Safe at Anchor Poet's Heart Give Yourself To Love (Volumes 1&2) (Live In Concert) Carry It On ASIN: B000003343 Release Date: 1993-09-28

Tracks:

1. Lately
2. Emma Rose
3. Sitting On The Porch
4. The Redtail Hawk
5. Telluride
6. Goodbye Babe
7. It Ain't In The Wine
8. Tequila & Me
9. Legend In His Time
10. Riding In The Country
11. Oklahoma Going Home
12. Back Roads

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Wolf's debut recording (released in 1976 on her Owl Records imprint) was only a small indication what was to come. After all, who could have predicted the influence she would have on a generation of singer-songwriters? In retrospect, this first studio effort sounds a bit tentative; it's as if Wolf holds back for fear of giving too much too soon. She needn't have worried; she was a prolific songwriter and interpreter who never ran short of material. The sad opener "Lately" and the kick-up-your-heels joy "Sitting on the Porch" point toward the intimate, confessional lyrical tone she came to master. --Alexandra Russell

Customer Reviews:

Kate captures the 'essence' of the rural west.......2000-08-30

I can't think of anyone who seemed to understand and was able to convey the feeling of the West better than Kate. This CD says it all. I first met her when I was living in Mariposa CA. in the 'golden rolling hills' she sang about. Some of her songs seem a little dated now but most of the songs on this album will strike a cord with country folk who love the land and life they lead.

Unbelievable Voice--Highly Recommended.......2000-02-20

I'm listening to this cd as I write this. Kate Wolf had an incredible voice. She had so many good songs with lyrics that really hit home, it is hard to say which is a favorite. I'd give this 4 1/2 stars. It is pretty mellow with the exception of a few bluegrassy sounding tunes. You simply have to hear Kate sing once and you're hooked. Highly Recommended

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Wildwood Flower-Hammered Dulcimer & String Quartet Alisa Jones Manufacturer: Cumberland ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000SQX38M

Product Description

1. Wildwood Flower 2:44 2. The Water Is Wide 2:32 3. Swanee River 3:39 4. Hard Times Come Again No More 2:28 5. Red Wing 2:46 6. The Ash Grove 2:04 7. Danny Boy 2:41 8. My Old Kentucky Home 3:03 9. Bonny Eloise 2:40 10. Simple Gifts 2:46 11. Scarborough Fair 2:42 12. Gentle Annie 3:39 13. Lorena 2:31 14. Red River Valley 1:43

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Wildwood Flower: Classic Country Performances Various Artists Manufacturer: Copper Creek ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Bluegrass | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B00023GG7G Release Date: 2004-05-25

Tracks:

1. Molly and the Tenbrooks (The Racehorse Song)
2. Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy - Flatt & Scruggs
3. Mom and Dad's Waltz - Lefty Frizzell
4. Love and Wealth - Carl Story
5. My Home Along the Hills - The Carter Family
6. Poor Ellen Smith - Molly O'Day
7. You Tried to Ruin My Name - Wilma Lee
8. Old Home - The Stanley Brothers
9. Wildwood Flower - Carter Sisters, Mother Maybelle Carter
10. Remember Me (When the Candle Lights Are Gleaming) - The Bailes Brothers
11. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Roy Acuff
12. I Overlooked an Orchid (While Searching for a Rose) - Carl Smith

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Wildwood Flower Buddy Spicher and Mike Loudermilk ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PHS6MC

Product Description

1 Fire on the Mountain 2 Shackles and Chains 3 Arkansas Traveler 4 Blue Moon of Kentucky 5 Kentucky/Tennessee Waltz 6 Devil Went Down To Georgia 7 Blue Kentucky Girl 8 Redwood Timber 9 Wildwood Flower 10 Ol' Joe Clark

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Looking Back Pam Linton Manufacturer: Black Gold Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAGD9K Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. You Ain't Down Home
2. Slippin' Away
3. My Baby Thinks He's a Train
4. Any Old Time
5. Wildwood Flower
6. Far-Side Banks of Jordan
7. Whispering Pines
8. Tammy Wynette Medley
9. I've Been Everywhere
10. Oh What It Did to Me
11. Harper Valley Pta
12. God Bless America Again

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The Making of Wildwood Flower Radio Special June Carter Cash Manufacturer: Dualtone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000OWF3VU

Product Description

7-track radio special CD hosted by John Carter Cash and featuring contributions from Marty Stuart, Rodney Crowell and Johnny Cash. 1. Segment 1 13:00 2. Segment 2 10:00 3. Segment 3 10:58 4. Segment 4 10:48 5. Segment 5 13:00 6. John Carter Cash Radio Special Promo With Music Bed 0:40 7. John Carter Cash Radio Special Promo Dry 0:12

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Wildwood Flower ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004Y3KT Release Date: 2006-03-14

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4. Anniversary Special, Vol. 1-2 [Original recording remastered]
5. Appalachian Picking Society
6. Are You Ready for the Big Show? [Enhanced] [Extra tracks] [Live]
7. At Her Best
8. Beatin' the Heat
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10. Best of Jack Scott (1957 - 1960)

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