Anchored In Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings

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Here's bedrock American music distancing itself from its European ancestry. The Carter Family showed what a couple of hundred years of Appalachian isolation could do to the Anglo-Celtic ballads on which country music was based. These songs are sometimes dark and unearthly, sometimes awash in Victorian bathos, but always unerringly affecting. Rounder is in the process of reissuing all of the Carters' RCA recordings. This volume includes the original versions of perennial folk favorites like "Wildwood Flower," "Keep on the Sunny Side," "The Wandering Boy," "Bury Me Beneath the Willow," and eight more. --Colin Escott

Anchored In Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings - 1927-1928,The Carter Family,Rounder / Pgd,Appalachia,Appalachian Folk,Country,Country & Western,North America,Old-Timey,Pop,Traditional Country

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The Roots of Roots music

Genesis1:1 of Country Music

Did they invent harmony?

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Anchored In Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings - 1927-1928
The Carter Family
Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000002RY
Release Date: 1994-10-12

Tracks:

Keep On The Sunny Side
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Wildwood Flower
Meet Me By The Moonlight Alone
The Wandering Boy
River Of Jordan
I Ain't Going To Work Tomorrow
Anchored In Love
Little Darling Pal Of Mine
Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
Single Girl, Married Girl
Little Log Cabin By The Sea
Chewing Gum
The Poor Orphan Child
John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone

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Here's bedrock American music distancing itself from its European ancestry. The Carter Family showed what a couple of hundred years of Appalachian isolation could do to the Anglo-Celtic ballads on which country music was based. These songs are sometimes dark and unearthly, sometimes awash in Victorian bathos, but always unerringly affecting. Rounder is in the process of reissuing all of the Carters' RCA recordings. This volume includes the original versions of perennial folk favorites like "Wildwood Flower," "Keep on the Sunny Side," "The Wandering Boy," "Bury Me Beneath the Willow," and eight more. --Colin Escott

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The Roots of Roots music.......2002-02-05

For all of you who just got turned on to "O Brother" etc., this is a great 2nd step. This album features the earliest records made by Sara, A.P. and Maybelle - before their radio show and before national fame. This is country music before there was country music, hovering somewhere between the twilight of Anglo-Scots balladry and the invention of Country & Western. The family did not write even one of these 16 tracks (although A.P. took credit for several), but they might as well have - no one has ever done them better. Just listen to Maybelle's classic guitar work on "Wildwood Flower," or those harmonies on "River of Jordan" and you'll see why every folk, bluegrass, country and old time musician in the world pays homage to the Carters.

The paradox of these early recordings is the polish of the playing (again, particularly the guitar work) coupled with the rawness and energy of the performances. No record producer had yet had a chance to tinker with the sound and the result is entrancing.

My personal favorites on the disc, aside from the original versions of "Wildwood Flower" & "Keep on the Sunny Side," are "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" (high and tight harmonies with some dynamite bass string guitar solos) and "John Hardy Was a Deperate Little Man," a period ballad that has been largely forgotten.

For anyone ready to take the plunge into roots music, you'll find no better recording.

Genesis1:1 of Country Music.......2000-02-29

This is it, the beginning of time as far as country music is concerned. It's important to remember that this is music from another world and values, long ago and far away; before advanced science and aesthetics and before information overload intruded, accessible now only through these recordings. It's also important to remember that the participants were quite young at the time-Maybelle was still a teenager and her cousins Sara and A.P. were in their mid-twenties and mid-thirties, respectively. Because of all this, the topics available were God, the life-to-come, forsaken love, Mother and Father, my old Clinch Mountain home, and most of the rest of Dixie, in just about that order, but thinking about it, is there really much else in life? Maybelle was already a budding guitar master and Sara's vocals, in a higher register than later years, gradually draw you in and hook you permanently and the primitive recording techniques actually helps the other-worldly quality of the songs and harmonies. I do wish Charles Wolfe would expand his invaluable liner notes for the series into a full-fledged biography, concentrating on the personalities involved, particularly the relationship between Sara and A.P.

Did they invent harmony?.......1999-03-19

I guess not, but it seems that way. I'm working my way through the whole re-issue series. This is simply timeless, essential music.

Unike.......1999-01-19

The original american folk-sound. Carter Family is timeless

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