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Can The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family (CD)

By: The Carter Family (Artist)

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The Carter Family Artist Snapshot:

Most music historians trace country's two main strands to its first superstars: blue yodeler Jimmie Rodgers, and balladeers the Carter Family. Their classic repertoire, haunting vocal harmonies, and Maybelle's distinctive guitar style have kept their old-time music relevant and moving to the modern day. The original group broke up in 1943, and the name was adapted by one member (Mother Maybelle) and her three daughters (June Carter Cash among them), and various combination of Carters performed and recorded in the '50s and '60s.

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DISC 1 for Can The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family (CD) Album By The Carter Family (Artist)
1   Can The Circle Be Unbroken (Bye & Bye)
2   Lulu Walls
3   My Clinch Mountain Home
4   Wildwood Flower
5   Worried Man Blues
6   Keep On The Sunny Side
7   Gospel Ship
8   My Texas Girl
9   Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
10   Cannon Ball Blues
11   I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
12   River Of Jordan
13   Storms Are On The Ocean, The
14   On The Rock Where Moses Stood
15   Little Black Train, The
16   Single Girl, Married Girl
17   Kissing Is A Crime
18   Blackie's Gunman
19   My Home Among The Hills
20   Black Jack David
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (7/7/00, p.131) - "...Spare, spiritual, and unsentimental - a tonic for our times." - Rating: A
CMJ (6/19/00, p.33) - "...[They] drastically changed country music, moving its focus from instrumental to vocals....performed in an old-time gospel harmony style with acoustic guitar..."

Title Note

The Carter Family: Maybelle Carter (vocals, guitar); Sara Carter, A.P. Carter (vocals).

Recorded in New York, New York in May 1935 & Chicago, Illinois in October 1940. Includes liner notes by Ed Kahn.

Digitally remastered by David Mitson (Sony Music Studios, Santa Monica, California).

This is part of Legacy's American Milestones series.

CAN THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN is subtitled COUNTRY MUSIC'S FIRST FAMILY, a claim so readily apparent it's almost unnecessary. This 20-track compilation doesn't touch on the 1927-'34 recordings that first made the trio famous; instead it collects all 17 songs A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter recorded over a single five-day session in May '35 for the ARC label, after they left RCA Victor. (The remaining tracks are from an abortive Columbia session in 1940.) In keeping with the usual label politics of the period, almost all of these tunes are remakes of earlier material, but that doesn't mean they're of lesser quality. Indeed, for those familiar with the older recordings, the newer takes of songs, particularly the title track and "Wildwood Flower," are a revelation. The tempos are measured and relaxed, giving Maybelle's guitar more prominence, and Sara's vocals have dropped appreciably in pitch. Still, this is an album best enjoyed in addition to the previous material, not in place of it.

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