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In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain

In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain
The Carter Family

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow [1927]
  2. Little Log Cabin by the Sea [1927]
  3. Poor Orphan Child [1927]
  4. Storms Are on the Ocean [1927]
  5. Single Girl, Married Girl [1927]
  6. Wandering Boy [1927]
  7. Meet Me by the Moonlight Alone [1928]
  8. Little Darlin' Pal of Mine [1928]
  9. Keep on the Sunny Side [1928]
  10. Anchored in Love [1928]
  11. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man [1928]
  12. I Ain't Goin' to Work Tomorrow [1928]
  13. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? [1928]
  14. River of Jordan [1928]
  15. Chewing Gum [1928]
  16. Wildwood Flower [1928]
  17. I Have No One to Love Me (But the Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea) [1928]
  18. Forsaken Love [1928]
  19. Sweet Fern [1929]
  20. My Clinch Mountain Home [1929]
  21. God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign [1929]
  22. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes [1929]
  23. Little Moses [1929]
  24. Lulu Walls [1929]
  25. Grave on the Green Hillside [1929]

Disc 2:

  1. Don't Forget This Song [1929]
  2. Foggy Mountain Top [1929]
  3. Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy [1929]
  4. Diamonds in the Rough [1929]
  5. Engine 143 [1929]
  6. Homestead on the Farm [1929]
  7. Cyclone of Rye Cove [1929]
  8. Motherless Children [1929]
  9. When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland [1930]
  10. No Telephone in Heaven [1930]
  11. Western Hobo [1930]
  12. Carter's Blues [1930]
  13. Wabash Cannonball [1930]
  14. Distant Land to Roam [1930]
  15. Jimmie Brown, the Newsboy [1930]
  16. Kitty Waltz [1930]
  17. Fond Affection [1930]
  18. Cannonball [1930]
  19. Lover's Farewell [1930]
  20. There's Someone Awaiting for Me [1930]
  21. Little Log Hut in the Lane [1930]
  22. When the Springtime Comes Again [1930]
  23. When the World's on Fire [1930]
  24. I Have an Aged Mother [1930]
  25. Dying Soldier [1930]
  26. Worried Man Blues [1930]

Disc 3:

  1. Lonesome Valley
  2. On the Rock Where Moses Stood
  3. Room in Heaven for Me
  4. Lonesome Pine Special
  5. No More the Moon Shines on Lorena
  6. On My Way to Canaan's Land
  7. Where Shall I Be?
  8. Sow 'Em on the Mountain
  9. Darling Nellie Across the Sea
  10. Birds Were Singing of You
  11. Weary Prodigal Son
  12. My Old Cottage Home
  13. When I'm Gone
  14. Sunshine in the Shadows
  15. Let the Church Roll On
  16. Lonesome for You
  17. Can't Feel at Home
  18. Why There's a Tear in My Eye - The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers
  19. Wonderful City - The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers
  20. Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family
  21. Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers in Texas
  22. 'Mid the Green Fields of Virginia [1932]
  23. Happiest Days of All [1932]
  24. Picture on the Wall [1932]
  25. Amber Tresses [1932]

Disc 4:

  1. I Never Loved But One [1932]
  2. Tell Me That You Loved Me [1932]
  3. Where We'll Never Grow Old [1932]
  4. We Will March Through the Streets of the City [1932]
  5. Sweet as the Flowers in May Time [1932]
  6. Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven [1932]
  7. My Little Home in Tennessee [1932]
  8. Sun of the Soul [1932]
  9. If One Won't Another One Will [1932]
  10. Broken Hearted Lover [1932]
  11. Two Sweethearts [1932]
  12. Winding Stream [1932]
  13. I Wouldn't Mind Dying [1932]
  14. Spirit of Love Watches Over Me [1932]
  15. Church in the Wildwood [1932]
  16. Give Me Roses While I Live [1933]
  17. I Never Will Marry [1933]
  18. On the Sea of Galilee [1933]
  19. Home by the Sea [1933]
  20. When the Roses Come Again [1933]
  21. I Loved You Better Than You Knew [1933]
  22. This Is Like Heaven to Me [1933]
  23. See That My Grave Is Kept Green [1933]
  24. Over the Garden Wall [1933]
  25. Gold Watch and Chain [1933]
  26. School House on the Hill [1968]

Disc 5:

  1. Will My Mother Know Me There? [1933]
  2. Faded Flowers [2000]
  3. Poor Little Orphaned Boy [1968]
  4. On a Hill Lone and Gray [1934]
  5. Cowboy Jack [1934]
  6. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight [1934]
  7. Away Out on Saint Sabbath [1934]
  8. Darling Little Joe [1968]
  9. Happy or Lonesome [1934]
  10. One Little Word [1934]
  11. Darling Daisies [1934]
  12. East Virginia Blues [1934]
  13. Lover's Return [1934]
  14. It'll Aggravate Your Soul [1934]
  15. Hello Central, Give Me Heaven [1934]
  16. I'm Working on a Building [1934]
  17. You've Been Fooling Me, Baby [1934]
  18. Longing for Old Virginia [1935]
  19. March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away [1935]
  20. There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy [1935]
  21. Home in Tennessee [1968]
  22. Are You Tired of Me, My Darling? [1935]
  23. I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart [1968]
  24. My Heart's Tonight in Texas [1935]
  25. There's No Hiding Place Down Here [1935]
  26. Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd [1935]

Disc 6:

  1. Evening Bells Are Ringing [1935]
  2. Mountains of Tennessee [1935]
  3. I'll Be Home Someday [1935]
  4. Faded Coat of Blue [1935]
  5. Sailor Boy [1935]
  6. Glory to the Lamb [1935]
  7. Behind Those Stone Walls [1935]
  8. Sinking in the Lonesome Sea [1935]
  9. He Took a White Rose from Her Hair [1935]
  10. Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye) [1935]
  11. Let's Be Lovers Again [1935]
  12. Your Mother Still Prays (For You, Jack) [1935]
  13. Kissing Is a Crime [1935]
  14. Don't Forget Me Little Darling [1935]
  15. Sad and Lonesome Day [1935]
  16. By the Touch of Her Hand [1935]
  17. East Virginia Blues No. 2 [1935]
  18. My Old Virginia Home [1935]
  19. My Virginia Rose Is Blooming [1935]
  20. My Texas Girl [1935]
  21. No Other's Bride I'll Be [1935]
  22. Gathering Flowers from the Hillside [1935]
  23. Gospel Ship [1935]
  24. Little Black Train [1935]
  25. Keep on the Sunny Side [1935]
  26. River of Jordan [1935]

Disc 7:

  1. Lonesome Valley [1935]
  2. God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign [1935]
  3. Single Girl, Married Girl [1935]
  4. Fate of Dewey Lee [1935]
  5. Wildwood Flower [1935]
  6. Sea of Galilee [1935]
  7. Don't Forget This Song [1935]
  8. My Clinch Mountain Home [1935]
  9. Storms Are on the Ocean [1935]
  10. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? [1935]
  11. Broken Hearted Lover [1935]
  12. Little Darlin' Pal of Mine [1935]
  13. Homestead on the Farm [1935]
  14. Cannon Ball Blues [1935]
  15. Meet Me by the Moonlight Alone [1935]
  16. On the Rock Where Moses Stood [1935]
  17. Lulu Walls [1935]
  18. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes [1935]
  19. Worried Man Blues [1935]
  20. My Dixie Darlling
  21. Give Me Your Love and I'll Give You Mine
  22. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
  23. Last Move for Me
  24. Wayworn Traveller
  25. Just Another Broken Heart
  26. When Silver Threads Are Gold Again

Disc 8:

  1. There's No One Like Mother to Be
  2. In a Little Village Churchyard
  3. Jealous Hearted Me
  4. My Native Home
  5. Sweet Heaven in My View
  6. No Depression in Heaven
  7. Bonnie Blue Eyes
  8. My Honey Lou
  9. In the Shadow of the Pines
  10. Answer to Weeping Willow
  11. You've Been a Friend to Me
  12. Where the Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way
  13. Lay My Head Beneath the Rose
  14. No Depression in Heaven [2000]
  15. My Native Home [2000]
  16. Jealous Hearted Me [2000]
  17. Distant Land to Roam [2000]
  18. I'm Working on a Building [2000]
  19. East Virginia Blues [2000]
  20. Dixie Darling [2000]
  21. Keep on the Sunny Side [2000]
  22. Kissin' Is a Crime [2000]
  23. Single Girl, Married Girl [2000]
  24. Little Darlin' Pal of Mine [2000]
  25. Lonesome Valley [2000]
  26. Cannon Ball Blues [2000]
  27. Happy or Lonesome [2000]

Disc 9:

  1. Are You Lonesome Tonight? [2000]
  2. Just Another Broken Heart [2000]
  3. Broken Down Tramp [1937]
  4. Lover's Lane [1937]
  5. Hold Fast to the Right [1937]
  6. Lord, I'm in Your Care [1937]
  7. Funny When You Feel That Way [1937]
  8. In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain [1937]
  9. Hello Stranger [1937]
  10. Never Let the Devil Get the Upper Hand of You [1937]
  11. When This Evening Sun Goes Down [1937]
  12. Jim Blake's Message [1937]
  13. Honey in the Rock [1937]
  14. Look How This World Has Made a Change [1937]
  15. Little Girl (I Ever Cared About) [1937]
  16. You Better Let That Liar Alone [1937]
  17. Farewell Nellie [1937]
  18. Only Girl (I Ever Cared About) [1937]
  19. Goodbye to the Plains [1937]
  20. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains [1937]
  21. Dark Haired True Lover [1937]
  22. He Never Came Back [1937]
  23. Happy in the Prison
  24. Walking in the King's Highway
  25. St. Regious Girl
  26. Just a Few More Days

Disc 10:

  1. Bring Back My Boy
  2. It Is Better Farther On
  3. Charlie and Nellie
  4. Cuban Soldier
  5. Heart That Was Broken for Me
  6. You're Nothing More to Me
  7. Stern Old Bachelor
  8. Little Joe
  9. Reckless Motorman
  10. You Denied Your Love
  11. Oh, Take Me Back
  12. You Are My Flower
  13. Who's That Knocking on My Window
  14. They Call Her Mother
  15. Coal Miner's Blues
  16. Young Freda Bolt
  17. Little Poplar Log House on the Hill [1940]
  18. Dying Mother [1940]
  19. Buddies in the Saddle [1940]
  20. Heaven's Radio [1940]
  21. Beautiful Home [1940]
  22. There'll Be No Distinction There [1940]
  23. Give Him One More as He Goes [1940]
  24. Lonesome for You Darling [1940]
  25. Blackie's Gunman [1940]
  26. You've Got to Righten That Wrong [1940]
  27. Meeting in the Air [1940]
  28. My Home Among the Hills [1940]

Disc 11:

  1. Black Jack David [1940]
  2. Look Away from the Cross [1940]
  3. We Shall Rise [1940]
  4. I Found You Among the Roses [1940]
  5. Bear Creek Blues [1940]
  6. I'll Never Forsake You [1940]
  7. Beautiful Isle O'er the Sea [1940]
  8. It's a Long Long Road to Travel Alone [1940]
  9. Why Do You Cry, Little Darling [1941]
  10. You Tied a Love Knot in My Heart [1941]
  11. Lonesome Homesick Blues [1941]
  12. Dark and Stormy Weather [1941]
  13. In the Valley of the Shenandoah [1941]
  14. Girl on the Greenbrier Shore [1941]
  15. Something Got a Hold of Me [1941]
  16. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room [1941]
  17. Keep on the Firing Line [1941]
  18. Wave on the Sea [1941]
  19. Rambling Boy [1941]
  20. You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down [1968]
  21. Why There's a Tear in My Eye [1964][Alternate Take] - The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers
  22. Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family [1964][Alternate Take]
  23. Sinking in the Lonesome Sea [1982][Alternate Take]
  24. Lonesome Valley [1982][Alternate Take]
  25. Cannon Ball Blues [1982][Alternate Take]
  26. Worried Man Blues [1982][Alternate Take]
  27. Single Girl, Married Girl [1982][Alternate Take]

Disc 12:

  1. Sara and Maybelle Carter Interview [1963-04-24]
  2. Ship That Never Returned [2000] - Sara Carter
  3. Jesse James [2000] - Sara Carter
  4. I Was Born 4,000 Years Ago [2000] - Sara Carter
  5. I'm Leaving You [2000] - Sara Carter
  6. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: Re-Autoharp/Fingerpicking/Allie ... - Mother Maybelle Carter
  7. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: Her Favorite Guitar Pickers [1973] - Mother Maybelle Carter
  8. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: The First Grand Ole Opry ... - Mother Maybelle Carter
  9. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: How the Maybelle Style Developed - Mother Maybelle Carter
  10. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: Thank You's from Musicians [1973] - Mother Maybelle Carter
  11. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: Do You Still Have Your Original ... - Mother Maybelle Carter
  12. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: An Autoharp Discussion [1973] - Mother Maybelle Carter
  13. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: The Wildwood Flower Discussion [1973] - Mother Maybelle Carter
  14. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: The Floyd Cramer Reference [1973] - Mother Maybelle Carter
  15. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: The Kids Dig That Style/The ... - Mother Maybelle Carter
  16. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: How Many Songs Did You Record in ... - Mother Maybelle Carter
  17. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: The Early Recording and Radio ... - Mother Maybelle Carter
  18. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: Early Record Sales [1973] - Mother Maybelle Carter
  19. Mother Maybelle Carter Interview: Discussion About A.P. and Sara ... - Mother Maybelle Carter

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #473616 in Music
  • Released on: 2000-09-12
  • Format: Box set

Editorial Reviews

Album Description
12CD Box Set Plus Book. Back in the LP era, Bear Family began the task of collecting source materials (78s, pressing parts, transfers, etc.) of all of the Carter Family's original recordings, as well as collecting the photographs and ephemera necessary to make a full and proper tribute. In 2000, this work came to fruition with this epic 12-CD set. In conjunction with its 30th anniversary, the Bear Family label polled 100 critics and musicians, asking them to list their favorite Bear Family records. The Carter Family set was the hands-down winner. And it's just part of their exhaustive documentation of the group.

Customer Reviews

Carter Family Box Set Essential For Fans5
Most Carter Family fans will already own a good portion of the recordings in this massive 12 CD box set, but many rare, essential recordings make this project truly exciting. Plus, this box set contains an invaluable, exquisite book and all the recordings are nicely remastered. The Bear Family label has a phenomenal reputation due to their attention to detail; surely putting this project together has been one their greatest challenges yet.

This box set features all 265 extant Carter Family major label recordings, plus 16 interesting radio transcriptions. This makes for a grand total of 281 sides. Now, 243 of these 281 sides feature unique songs and the remaining 38 are remakes. The 281 recordings are as follows: 133 sides recorded between 1927 and 1934 for Victor, 40 sides recorded in 1935 for ARC (20 of them remakes of Victor sides), 20 sides recorded in 1936 for Decca, 16 sides recorded in 1936 for the Associated Recorded Program Service and issued as radio transcriptions (10 of them remakes of Victor sides and the other 6 remakes of material recorded for Decca the previous day), 40 sides recorded from 1937-1938 for Decca (2 of them remakes of Victor sides), 20 sides recorded in 1940 for ARC/Columbia, and 12 sides recorded in 1941 for Victor.

Of the 281 recordings, 214 have previously been made available on 13 CDs released by Rounder (9 volumes of the series "Their Complete Victor Recordings"), Columbia/Legacy ("Can The Circle Be Unbroken"), MCA ("Country Music Hall Of Fame"), Old Homestead ("1936 Radio Transcripts"), and County/Sony Music Special Products ("Clinch Mountain Treasures"). What are not found on those 13 CDs, and what are mostly only available in this box set, are 23 ARC recordings from 1935 (9 of them remakes) and 44 Decca recordings from 1936-1938 (2 of them remakes).

This box set is filled out with 3 early Victor alternate takes, 4 early ARC alternate takes, a 1963 interview with Sara Carter and Maybelle Carter, 4 home recordings from 1968 featuring Sara Carter and Maybelle Carter, and a 1973 interview with Maybelle Carter.

Then there is the book! It is hardbound and contains 220 pages. In it, there is a hand written introduction by Johnny Cash, biographies and song notes by Charles K. Wolfe, song transcriptions (lyrics) by Phil Wells, and a detailed discography by Tony Russell and Richard Weize. There are dozens upon dozens of photographs of people, places, phonograph records, handbills, and so on; reportedly every known photograph of the original Carter Family is featured. The Bear really outdid themselves with this one.

One frustrating aspect to this box set is that a few song titles in the discography are not identical to those used elsewhere in the book and on the jewel case tray cards.

The sound quality of the earliest Victor recordings is reasonably good here, especially as compared to the Rounder CDs featuring same. There a fair amount of surface noise present here, but I prefer this to the high pitched squeal heard on the Rounder CDs.

The Carter Family: A Cornerstone of American Popular Music5
The Carter Family has often been called the first family of country music, and no better argument for this claim can be made than this massive 12 CD set. Recorded for a variety of record companies between 1927 and 1941, this set includes all of the studio recordings made by the trio before they went their separate ways. The box set includes a 220 page, hardcover book that includes all known photographs of the Carters, as well as program notes, song lyrics, an essay from noted country music scholar Charles Wolfe, and a discography. For the uninitiated, the Carter Family were from the Clinch Mountain area of Virginia. The group consisted of leader A.P. Carter on backing vocals, wife Sara Dougherty Carter on lead vocals, guitar and autoharp, and Sara's cousin Maybelle Addington Carter on lead guitar and harmony vocals. When the Victor recording company placed adds in Virginia and Tennessee newspapers in the summer of 1927 for musical talent, dozens of local acts appeared and many were recorded. The Carter Family was chosen, as was the soon-to-be legendary Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers. These recording sessions, often called the Bristol (TN) Sessions, are cited by many as the birth of country music as we know it, incorporating old time string band and folk music with such later developments as blues, ragtime and jazz.

Both the Carters and Rodgers went on to sell hundreds of thousands of 78 RPM records in the late twenties. The Carter Family traveled and performed widely, and their careers even survived the Great Depression. After recording dozens of sides for Victor, the Carters moved on to ARC, Decca and Bluebird. All of the music was memorable, and all of it is preserved here. The sound is rough in spots but better than any previous reissues. Only the Victor sides (about half of this compilation) have been reissued in their entirety, so this is the first CD reissue for many of these recordings. The Carter's mid-Thirties work is some of their finest, and its a pleasure to finally have all of these sides reissued.

The Carter Family's music influenced many other musicians in the Thirties and Forties, and they continued to be a force in later decades as well. The folk revival of the Sixties so a particular renewal of interest, and as late as the 1970s Johnny Cash featured Maybelle Carter and her daughters (including Cash's wife, June Carter) in his recordings and stage shows.

The German company, Bear Family Records, has done their usual excellent work in compiling this release. Sure, its expensive, and its a lot of music from a single act, but serious scholars of American music will consider this set essential. The Carter Family's legacy has never seemed greater than it does on this fine set.

A Fine Tribute to the Carter5
There is little to say about the music that folks looking at this set don't already know. It's nice to have all Carter recordings available in a package of this quality. I also believe the remastering is an improvement on the Rounder series and the book has some interesting information and is very good quality. This set does indeed anchor any collection of old time or early country music.