Original Carter Family - Can Circle Be Broken: Country Musics First Family
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Artist: Original Carter FamilyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2000-07-04
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Description of Can Circle Be Broken: Country Musics First Family
17 classics cut by the original Carters (A.P., Sara and Mother Maybelle) in 1935, plus three more in 1940! Includes the unreleased-as-a-78 Worried Man Blues; Cannon Ball Blues , and Sinking in the Lonesome Sea , plus He Stopped Loving Her Today; Wildwood Flower; Single Girl, Married Girl; The Storms Are on the Ocean; I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes; Keep on the Sunny Side; My Clinch Mountain Home , and more timeless tracks.Like so many Americans during the Depression, the Carter Family found themselves forced to stay in motion throughout the 1930s. Rural economies, the locales where country music had taken root, were hit unusually hard by the economic crash. The Carters left their original record label just prior to recording the first 17 of the 20 tunes on Can the Circle Be Unbroken, joining ARC for long enough to prodigiously churn out material they'd previously recorded. The 17 ARC songs here were recorded over 3 days in May 1935, and all reveal a Carter Family growing musically comfortable with their execution on these tunes--especially the slight dronelike quality in Sara's voice, which sounds settled and at times almost languid. Maybelle's voice and guitar emphasize the appropriately unhurried pacing (this was the Depression, after all). As for the closing trio of tracks, they come from a post-Decca session during their short tenure at Columbia, and all bear the mark of greater vocal harmonies between Sara and Maybelle, as well as an increased pitch in the vocals that quickens the pace a tad. These are vitally important recordings, to be sure, a fine, more multihued complement to the band's '20s-era recordings. --Andrew Bartlett
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