June Carter Cash, JUNE CARTER CASH - Wildwood Flower
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Artist: June Carter Cash, JUNE CARTER CASHEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Dualtone Music Group
Soundtracks:
- Keep On The Sunny Side
- The Road To Kaintuck
- (Carter Girls Intro) Kneeling Drunkard's Plea
- Storms Are On The Ocean
- (Little Junie Intro) Temptation
- Big Yellow Peaches
- Alcatraz
- Sinking in the Lonesome Sea w/ Marty Stuart
- Church in the Wildwood / Lonesome Valley w/ Joe and Lorrie Carter
- Cannonball Blues
- Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
- Anchored in Love w/ Joe and Janette Carter & Dale Jett
- Wildwood Flower
Music reviews of Wildwood Flower
Music Review: A musical family album
Rating: 4 Stars
The sentimental attachments that affix themselves to this CD are such that it's difficult to give it a critical appraisal, but I'll try. This CD was the final audio testament of June Carter Cash, released just months after her death. She is, indisputably, a cornerstone of country and folk music history, not only for her ties to the Carter Family but her performances with hubby Johnny Cash and solo (PRESS ON is a remarkable album.)
I cannot sincerely call this June's "finest hour". Her voice is craggy and weak at times...the result of her failing health..and she misses notes here and there. Her autoharp only makes an appearance on the title track. Watch the added videos on your PC and you'll see that both Johnny and June are looking every bit of their age, and that June is being fanned throughout the recording sessions. But June gives it everything she has and she picks the most meaningful material to expend her energies on.
The most useful way to see this is as a "musical family album": a chance to sit in the living room at her old homeplace in Virginia with June, Johnny, and some family and friends and listen to stories and song. This is a family affair all the way with daughters, granddaughters and grandsons involved in picking and singing and Johnny's son, John Carter Cash, producing the whole shebang.
The feel is enhanced by touches like a 1944 radio show snippet, June's stories, and self-effacing reminisces (in one of the sepia-toned documentary style videos included as extras on the disc, she called herself "that little squeaky girl"). Besides revealing June's charm, they also demonstrate her deep reverence and love for the material (Watch "Storms are on the Ocean"..June doesn't need the words on her stand..her eyes are looking away as she sings from memory).
HIGHLIGHTS:
June's vocals are at their best on the classic "Storms are on the Ocean" and it becomes a high point. The cello (played by Nancy Blake) on the cut is a welcome addition to the arrangement. It's a tale of a woman waiting for her lover (a sailor?) to return to her from his travels. "Big Yellow Peaches" is a murder ballad with a touch of humour that appears to have been written in 1966 and forgotten about until now? It's preceded by a story about how a randy Lee Marvin's advances on June inspired it. "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea" is a nice take on another A.P. Carter standard with Marty Stuart offering harmony. "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone" is a wonderfully spirited call and response as June asks the question and Johnny and assorted relatives answer her back. The fact that June and Johnny would be dead themselves months after cutting this just makes it even more poignant. A nice rendition of the classic "Wildwood Flower" closes the set with June letting the chorus "I will dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay" revealing itself to be her mantra through life. It's a classy end to the CD.
LOWS:
"Kneeling Drunkard's Plea" finds June's voice at her shakiest despite some lovely backing vocals from Marty Stuart and Carlene Carter. If you want to hear this in a better rendition, sample Johnny's take on the same tune for UNCHAINED. (ASIN B000062X9G) "Temptation" sounds as though June is fighting against the tempo at times. (For a great version of the song, try ASIN B00081U79K).
BOTTOM LINE:
If you're looking here because you're curious about June and/or the Carter Family, do NOT start with this one. Try PRESS ON (ASIN B00008O30J) or 1927-1934 (for the family..ASIN B00005TPB7) instead.
If you're already a Carter/June fan, this will be a wonderful emotional experience. It'll be like June standing in front of you in her big flowered hat and long white skirt waving her scarf in greeting...inviting you in to her home.
3 1/2 stars
Description of Wildwood Flower
Recorded from October 2002 to March 2003 in Mother Maybelle's childhood home in Mae's Springs, Virginia. June is joined by Johnny Cash and A.P. & Sarah Carter's children Joe & Janette Carter, daughter Carlene Carter and grandchildren Laura Cash and Tiffany Carter Love. 13 tracks plus as a bonus video enhancement, video footage of the Wildwood Flower recording sessions that took place September 18th & 19th, 2002 at the Carter Family Estate in Virginia. Dualtone. 2003.June Carter Cash's final album (she died in May, 2003) is a microcosm of a magnificent seven-decade legacy that began in the 1930s when she and her two sisters joined their mother in the Original Carter Family. After years recording with them, alone, and with husband Johnny Cash , her solo career found new life on her 1999 masterpiece Press On. As straightforward as ever, she revisits many Carter Family standards and a few of her lesser-known originals. Yet even on the deeper, darker numbers, her tone is anything but funereal. Her feisty performance of Red Ingle's 1947 novelty "Temptation" ("Tim-Tay-Shun") with Johnny revives the playfulness at the heart of their duets. Her family members, including daughter Carlene Carter, singing backup and the elegant accompaniment from a tiny acoustic band including Norman and Nancy Blake bolster and enhance her weathered voice. In bringing down the curtain herself, as she does on the Carter Family's timeless ballads "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone" and "Wildwood Flower," she demonstrates the grace, class and courage befitting both a Carter?and a Cash. -- Rich Kienzle
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