CD LIST                                             

1. An Historic Reunion ( Sara & Maybelle)
2. Longing For Virginia
3. When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
4. Worried Man Blues
5. Last Sessions
6. Sunshine In The Shadows
7. Give Me Roses While I Live
8. Anchored In Love 
9. Golden Watch And Chain
10. The Carter Family  Gospel Gold (With June Carter)

An Historic Reunion ( Sara & Maybelle)

Koch - CD - 7925

Track List

1. While The Band Is Playin Dixie

2. Higher Ground

3. Lonesome Pine Special

4. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

5. Three Little Stranger

6. The Ship That Never Returned

7. Weary Prodigal Soul

8. Sun Of The Soul

9. Farther On

10. Happiest Days Of All

11. Goin Home

Notes By Johnny Cash

In 1936 when I was three years old, we lived on a cotton farm at Dyess   Arkansas  , bout 40 miles from   Memphis  . And I became a fan of the Carter Family. We bought a radio from Sears Roebuck that year and I glued my ear to it and learned every song that Maybelle, Sara, and A.P. Carter Recorded. As long as the battery lasted, that is. We had no electricity. It wasn’t until nearly 25 years later, in 1960, that our paths actually crossed. Meeting Mother Maybelle Carter was, for me, like meeting the Queen of   England  . I spent many hours in the living room, playing and swapping old songs as well as learning new ones from her. And I became fast friends with here husband, Ezra Carter the family calls him E.K. Many times, when Mother Maybelle was on tour, Mr. Carter and I talked for hours. I discovered that he was a great philosopher, that he reads with a passion, and that he is one of the great unsung authorities on ancient world history as well as a senior student of the Bible. He has home recorded many lectures on the Bible, and I hope one day to be privileged to assemble some of his remarkable knowledge in an album.

It was through Mr. Carter that I learned many things about A.P. Carter and of Aunt Sara, who is married to Coy Bayes and who lives in Angels Camp California. She has a comfortable house trailer there, and raises peacocks, of all things. About three years ago, I asked Mother Maybelle if Aunt Sara still sang, and I was told that she didn’t. But we soon learned that music lovers were beating a path to that trailer door in Angels Camp, hoping That Aunt Sara would talk or sing into their tape recorder.

She finally tuned up her guitar and luteharp and sang the countless songs she had written since her last recording session 26 ago! In 1965, when Coy Bayes bought a tape recorder, a second fabulous career was beginning for Sara. She taped Christmas greetings that year to the family in   Madison ,  Tennessee  . There was a “Hello” For me on it, too. She said, by the way, I’m gonna sing this one for Johnny Cash. It goes way down low, and Johnny Cash could sing under the floor, he’s got such a low voice. I can’t sing it myself. I’m getting on in years and just don’t have the breath anymore. Here it is, and if you don’t like it, then throw the blame thing away. The song was farther on. It’s in this album. So is another song she sent along, “lonesome Pine Special”. On another tape, she sent “While The Band Is Playing Dixie” June Carter took the tape to Columbia Records where she, the family, Jack Clement and myself were treated to the rare sight of seeing Don Law, Columbia’s veteran of 30 years of picking up artist and songs, jump up and down with excitement.

When Aunt Sara came to   Madison  on vacation, she surprised us all when she agreed to record this album. She surprised us more at the session by her singing and by her playing. It was a closed session, except for Jack Clement and myself. And being allowed to attend was one of the great honors of my life. Jack and I sat quietly in a corner and watched this album come together in exactly four-and-a-half hours. Record companies usually allow nine hours for recording for the recording of the LP!

Aunt Sara sat with her eyes closed, playing and sing, happy to be once again with Maybelle. Mother Maybelle was happier than I’ve ever seen her. And, it seemed to me, she played guitar better than ever. I think Aunt Sara was proud to be recording with such modern equipment. The last records she had made were with equipment used in 1940, long before the tape recorder was invented. So this album is a masterpiece in sound and in talent. It brings you Joe Carter, not trying to imitate, but to fill the gap left by his father. And Maybelle, playing her guitar with the best sound in 26 years. And Sara, singing at age 69 with more strength of voice than she had in 1927. And we have it now for all time…. Right here.   Johnny Cash 

Track List 

1. When The Roses Come Again 

2. I loved You Better Than You Knew 

3. This Is like Heaven To Me 

4. See That my Grave Is Kept Clean 

5. Over The Garden Wall 

6. Gold Watch And Chain

7. School House On The Hill

8. Will My Mother Know Me There ?

9. Faded Flowers 

10. Poor Little Orphaned Boy

11. Cowboy Jack

12. All Smiles Tonight 

13. Away Out On the Saint Sabbath

14. Darling Little Joe 

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The Carter Family  Gospel Gold

Gospel Gold Series Cat. No. 40840-2 
Nashville Tenn. Very Hard To Find

The Gospel Gold Series Presents Timeless Old Gospel Hymns That Have Sustained Through The Ages And Become American Classics

1. Baby Ride Easy 

2. Gotta Move On

3. Jesus

4. Loving Me On His Mind

5. Maybe You're The One 

6. Maybelle 

7. Southern Cross 

8. The Moon Just Turned Blue

9. Will The Circle Be Unbroken

10. Will You Remember 

11. Woman's Touch

12. Yankee Don't Go Home 

13. It Takes A Worried Man 

14. Wildwood Flower

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