Personnel: Chet Atkins (vocals, guitar); Mother Maybelle Carter (vocals, guitar, banjo); Helen Carter, June Carter, Anita Carter (vocals).
Recording information: 1949.
A meeting of true country music royalty, this collection presents guitar legend Chet Atkins performing in 1949 with, not only Carter Family matriarch Maybelle Carter, but her three lovely daughters--Anita, Helen, and June. (The latter would, of course, go on to marry Johnny Cash). Hearing such early recordings by the fleet-fingered Atkins alone makes this disc a recovered gem, but the Carters serve to make every tune sweeter, particularly when unfurling their high-lonesome harmonies, as on "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and "In the Pines."