Tracks
1.1 Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 1.2 Little Log Cabin By the Sea 1.3 The Poor Orphan Child 1.4 The Storms Are on the Ocean 1.5 Single Girl, Married Girl 1.6 The Wandering Boy 1.7 Meet Me By the Moonlight, Alone 1.8 Little Darling, Pal of Mine 1.9 Keep on the Sunny Side 1.10 Anchored in Love 1.11 John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man 1.12 I Ain't Goin' to Work Tomorrow 1.13 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone 1.14 River of Jordan 1.15 Chewing Gum 1.16 Wildwood Flower 1.17 I Have No-One to Love Me (But the Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea) 1.18 Forsaken Love 1.19 Sweet Fern 1.20 My Clinch Mountain Home 1.21 God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign 1.22 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes 1.23 Little Moses 1.24 Lulu Wall 1.25 The Grave on the Green Hillside 2.1 Don't Forget This Song 2.2 The Foggy Mountain Top 2.3 Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy to Me 2.4 Diamonds in the Rough 2.5 Engine One-Forty-Three 2.6 The Homestead on the Farm 2.7 The Cyclone of Rye Cove 2.8 Motherless Children 2.9 When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland 2.10 No Telephone in Heaven 2.11 Western Hobo 2.12 Carter's Blues 2.13 Wabash Cannonball 2.14 A Distant Land to Roam 2.15 Jimmie Brown the Newsboy 2.16 Kitty Waltz 2.17 Fond Affection 2.18 The Cannonball 2.19 The Lover's Farewell 2.20 There's Someone Awaiting for Me 2.21 The Little Log Hut in the Lane 2.22 When the Springtime Comes Again 2.23 When the World's on Fire 2.24 I Have An Aged Mother 2.25 Dying Soldier 2.26 Worried Man Blues 3.1 Lonesome Valley 3.2 On the Rock Where Moses Stood 3.3 Room in Heaven for Me 3.4 Lonesome Pine Special 3.5 No More the Moon Shines on Lorena 3.6 On My Way to Canaan's Land 3.7 Where Shall I Be? 3.8 Sow 'Em on the Mountain 3.9 Darling Nellie Across the Sea 3.10 The Birds Were Singing of You 3.11 Weary Prodigal Son 3.12 My Old Cottage Home 3.13 When I'm Gone 3.14 Sunshine in the Mountain 3.15 Let the Church Roll on 3.16 Lonesome for You 3.17 Can't Feel at Home 3.18 Why There's a Tear in My Eye 3.19 The Wonderful City 3.20 Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family 3.21 The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers in Texas 3.22 'Mid the Green Fields of Virginia 3.23 Happiest Days of All 3.24 Picture on the Wall 3.25 Amber Tresses 4.1 I Never Loved But One 4.2 Tell Me That You Love Me 4.3 Where We'll Never Grow Old 4.4 We Will March Through the Streets of the City 4.5 Sweet As the Flowers in Maytime 4.6 Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven 4.7 My Little Home in Tennessee 4.8 The Sun of the Soul 4.9 If One Won't, Another One Will 4.10 Broken Hearted Love 4.11 Two Sweethearts 4.12 The Winding Stream 4.13 I Wouldn't Mind Dying 4.14 The Spirit of Love Watches Over Me 4.15 The Church in the Wildwood 4.16 Give Me Roses While I Live 4.17 I Will Never Marry 4.18 On the Sea of Galilee 4.19 Home By the Sea 4.20 I Loved You Better Than You Knew 4.21 This Is Like Heaven to Me 4.22 See That My Grave Is Kept Green 4.23 Over the Garden Wall 4.24 Gold Watch and Chain 4.25 Will My Mother Know Me There? 5.1 On a Hill Lone and Gray 5.2 Cowboy Jack 5.3 I'll Be All Smiles Tonight 5.4 Away Out on the Old Saint Sabbath 5.5 Happy or Lonesome 5.6 One Little Word 5.7 Darling Daisies 5.8 The East Virginia Blues 5.9 Lovers Return 5.10 It'll Aggravate Your Soul 5.11 Hello Central! Give Me Heaven 5.12 I'm Working on a Building 5.13 You've Been Fooling Me, Baby 5.14 Longing for Old Virginia 5.15 March Winds Goin' to Blow My Blues All Away 5.16 There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy 5.17 Are You Tired of Me, My Darling 5.18 My Heart's Tonight in Texas 5.19 There's No Hiding Place Down Here 5.20 Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd 5.21 The Evening Bells Are Ringing 5.22 The Mountains of Tennessee 5.23 I'll Be Home Some Day 5.24 Faded Coat of Blue 5.25 Sailor Boy
Notes
T's not too much to say that in the late '20s the trio of A.P. Delaney Carter, his wife Sara, and his sister-in-law Maybelle changed the course of country - and popular - music. They did it with haunting harmonies, fine guitar playing and a vast repertoire of murder ballads, gospel tunes, love songs, and Appalachian folk melodies which would be covered by musicians for decades. And this wasn't just the often derided 'hillbilly' music; this was something timeless, that defies definition and which still resonates. Our five-CD collection is the most complete collection of their early output - from the initial 1927 Bristol 'Big Bang' sessions to their depression-era recordings. Even today, Sara Carter's voice sounds aching, yet empowered. Whether they're yodelling through The Foggy Mountain Top, singing a feminist anthem like Single Girl, Married Girl, or harmonizing with Maybelle on Worried Man Blues, you can hear the Carters' huge influence on country music. A must-have
