Track Listing

1. Keep on the Sunny Side
2. Little Darling Pal of Mine
3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
4. Wildwood Flower
5. Sweet Fern
6. My Clinch Mountain Home
7. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
8. Lula Walls
9. Foggy Mountain Top
10. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
11. Carter's Blues
12. Wabash Cannonball
13. Diamonds in the Rough
14. Kitty Waltz
15. Cannonball
16. Worried Man Blues
17. Lonesome Valley
18. Lonesome Pine Special
19. Church in the Wildwood
20. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
21. You Better Let That Liar Alone
22. Cuban Soldier
23. No Depression in Heaven
24. Reckless Motorman
25. Just Another Broken Heart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73416 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Description
Import exclusive compilation features comprehensive liner notes, photographs, & discographies. Proper. 2004.

Album Details
The Most Influential Group in Country Music History, the Carter Family Switched the Emphasis from Hillbilly Instrumentals to Vocals, Made Scores of their Songs Part of the Standard Country Music Canon, and Made a Style of Guitar Playing, "Carter Picking," the Dominant Technique for Decades. Following a Long Period on the Road and Eventually on the Radio, They Signed a Recording Deal in 1928 and the Fruits of this Deal Led to the Classic Recordings Contained on this Proper Introduction. Comes with a Fully Illustrated Booklet featuring Comprehensive Liner Notes, Photographs and Discographies.

Customer Reviews

Excellent choice, but consider alternatives first
There are several excellent one-CD compilations of the Carter Family, but this looks like the most for the money. But if you are just starting out, you might check some of the exceptional box sets that are available. Proper itself puts out "Proper Box" collections of 4-CD sets for between $18 and $25, depending on where you buy them (Amazon marketplace, e.g.). So you can get 4 times the Carters for about double the price. (There are, in fact 2 4-CD sets of the Carters, early and late career.) Give a listen first. The Carters are old-timey but NOT shrill; there is a dreamy, mournful, sweetness in their singing that makes them utterly sublime--unlike their contemporary Jimmy Rodgers (the Blue yodeller), who is great fun, just as historically significant, but has much less range and interest than do the wonderful Carters.

The best single disc Carter Family cd for the money
You get several picture-ful phamplets included in the deluxe packaged cd! It is priced at a budget affordable price. It includes all of thier seminal early essential sides, and captures them at thier creative peak. If you don't have any backwoods old timey vinatge 1930's mountian music, this is where to start. This is the half of what influenced later bands like Bob Wills, Hank Penny, and Spade Cooley(of couse the other half of the influence would have been Jelly Roll Morton or Fats Waller). Great cd.