Record List
RCA CPSI 1 - 2763 Side A
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Columbia CL - 2319 Stereo Side #1
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Columbia Two Record LP Set KG - 32436 Side #1
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Foot Notes Of Mother Maybelle's Album This album is something unique and good. It is Mother Maybelle Carter doing what she is famous for. Playing guitar and autoharp. There have been so many major artist and musicians influenced by Mother Maybelle’s playing that this album is way over due and has been requested by many of her pupils, and fansI can’t think anyone who has contributed as much to country music as she has. A member of the original Carter Family who recorded who recorded the first country record ever released. A member of the Country Hall Of Fame, one of the highest honors in country music. Mother of the talented daughters Anita, June, And Helen and mother-in-law to Johnny Cash. There is a list of her credits that would fill the back of many albums. There were many musicians who requested to be on her sessions for this album. The people in Nashville are proud of her and what she has done here. There is nothing fancy as far as extras on this record. Only pure music there are singers, just good pickin there is one outstanding feature, Mother Mayblle Carter. The Selections of material is unusual. She chose songs she has played for nearly fifty years and songs she had never played. She goes from Arkansas Traveler to Never On Sunday. Some of the tunes were selected on the spur of the moment in the studio, Hey Mama let’s do Red Wing. The Conversations on some of the cuts are real. They were not staged. Also on the Chinese Breakdown and Red Wing even mistakes were left in to show how much fun was had recording this album. Some of the finest musicians in Nashville gathered together for three days to complement and accompany a true artist, a legend a lady Mother Maybelle Carter
Mountain Dew Records S/7014 Side #1
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The Carter Family, I Walk The Line
LP Harmony HS-11392 Side #1
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Foot Notes To Album ( I Walk The Line ) That country music has had-and still has-a powerful impact on other kinds of music is an established fact. A music expert could offer many examples of just how strong its rhythmic and melodic influence is from Rock’n and Roll all the way to symphonic works by American’s greatest classical composers. Yes, in many ways country got there first. I Walk The Line, bears abundant testimony to this fact, as do the performances of these unique artists while the Carter’s didn’t originate country music, their grass-roots style over the years helped develop its distinctive sound. Today, strong echoes of the original Carter Sound are everywhere. In this latest Carter Family album, the popular and long-respected group consisting of Mother Maybelle Carter, Helen, June, and Anita Carter - performed with all their characteristics down-home style, but with a new emphasis on the rhythmic drive that they helped originate and make popular. All the songs in I Walk The Line are sung with the same expertness and dedication that has Always made the Carter Family a Vital and exciting part of America’s Life .
Revised: September 02, 2007 |
