Carter Family 2: 1935-1941 CD

Ralph Peer 'discoverered' the Carters - already experienced musicians - in one of his recording trawls of the South. He continued to supervise their work for Victor and acted as their manager and publisher. In 1935, Peer left Victor to join ARC. The Carters followed him. ARC was big time. They released new material on their own labels and through stores chains - Sears, for example sold ARC output on the Conqueror label. Peer had secured a contract for 40 songs, and recording was expected to take a week. We open with those sessions. There was some re-recording of Victor work, but there is also much that is new. The first day yielded three songs - ascribed as usual to AP. At least one, Sinking In The Lonesome Sea, has roots in the English folk tradition. Can the Circle Be Unbroken had been recorded for Victor - but had not been released. It sold well for ARC. Notable from this session is Sad And Lonesome Day, uncannily close to Blind Lemon Jefferson's See My Grave Is Kept Clean. Also to achieve enduring fame are My Texas Girl and Gospel Ship which has become a church standard throughout the South. Both black and white non-conformist movements can lay claim to it's origins. A reminder that distinct as the Blues and Country traditions are now, they were inextricably intertwined. The most notable feature of the Carter's work at this time was the evolution of Sara and Maybelle as singers of power and profundity, as evidenced on both Single Girl, Married Girl and Keep On The Sunny Side. The Fate Of Dewey Lee is a murder drama based on real life. Lee's family asked for the song not to be released. They were too late. This seems genuinely to have caused AP anguish. In later years he is said to have sung the song with some reluctance. This collection follows the Carters through several changes of label, marital strife and their triumphant transfer to 'border radio'. No collector with an interest in American music and it's origins should be without it.

1. Glory to the Lamb 2. Behind Those Stone Walls 3. Sinking in the Lonesome Sea 4. He Took a White Rose from Her Hair 5. Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye) 6. Let's Be Lovers Again 7. Your Mother Still Prays (For You Jack) 8. Kissing Is a Crime 9. Don't Forget Me Little Darling 10. Sad and Lonesome Day 11. By the Touch of Her Hand 12. East Virginia Blues No.2 13. My Old Virginia Home 14. My Virginia Rose Is Blooming 15. My Texas Girl 16. No Other's Bride I'll Be 17. Gathering Flowers from the Hillside 18. Gospel Ship 19. Little Black Train 20. Keep on the Sunny Side 21. River of Jordan 22. Lonsesome Vally 23. God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign 24. Single Girl, Married Girl 25. The Fate of Dewey Lee 26. Wildwood Flower 27. Sea of Galilee 28. Don't Forget This Song 29. My Clinch Mountain Home 30. The Storms Are on the Ocean 31. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone 32. Broken Hearted Lover 33. Little Darling Pal of Mine 34. The Homestead on the Farm 35. Cannon Ball Blues 36. Meet Me By the Moonlight Alone 37. On the Rock Where Moses Stood 38. Lulu Walls 39. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes 40. Worried Man Blues 41. My Dixie Darling 42. Give Me Your Love and I'll Give You Mine 43. Are You Lonseome Tonight? 44. The Last Move for Me 45. The Wayworn Traveller 46. Just Another Broken Heart 47. When Silver Threads Are Gold Again 48. There's No One Like Mother to Me 49. In a Little Village Churchyard 50. Jealous Hearted Me 51. My Native Home 52. Sweet Heaven in My View 53. No Depression 54. Bonny Blue Eyes 55. My Honey Lou 56. In the Shadow of the Eyes 57. Answer to Weeping Willow 58. You've Been a Friend to Me 59. Where the Silvery Colorado Wends It's Way 60. Lay My Head Beneath the Rose 61. The Broken Down Tramp 62. Lover's Lane 63. Hold Fast to the Right 64. Lord I'm in Your Care 65. Funny When You Feel That Way 66. In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain 67. Hello Stranger 68. Never Let the Devil Get the Upper Hand of You 69. When This Evening Sun Goes Down 70. Jim Blake's Message 71. Honey in the Rock 72. Look How This World Has Made a Change 73. The Little Girl That Played on My Knee 74. You Better Let That Liar Alone 75. Farewell Nellie 76. The Only Girl (I Ever Cared About) 77. Goodbye to the Plains 78. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains 79. Dark Haired True Lover 80. He Never Came Back 81. Happy in the Prison 82. Walking in the King's Highway 83. St. Regious Girl 84. Just a Few More Days 85. Bring Back My Boy 86. It Is Better Farther on 87. Charlie and Nellie 88. Cuban Soldier 89. The Heart That Was Broken for Me 90. You're Nothing More to Me 91. Stern Old Bachelor 92. Little Joe 93. Reckless Motorman 94. You Denied Your Love 95. Oh Take Me Back 96. You Are My Flower 97. Who's That Knocking at My Window 98. They Call Her Mother 99. Coal Miner's Blues 100. Young Freda Bolt 101. Little Poplar Log House on the Hill 102. The Dying Mother 103. Buddies in the Saddle 104. Heaven's Radio 105. Beautiful Home 106. There'll Be No Distinction There 107. Give Him One More As He Goes 108. Lonesome for You Darling 109. Blackie's Gunman 110. You've Got to Righten That Wrong 111. Meeting in the Air 112. My Home Among the Hills 113. Black Jack David 114. Look Away from the Cross 115. We Shall Rise 116. I Found You Among the Roses 117. Bear Creek Blues 118. I'll Never Forsake You 119. Beautiful Isle O'er the Sea 120. It's a Long Road to Travel Alone 121. Why Do You Cry, Little Darling 122. Lonesome Homesick Blues 123. Dark and Stormy Weather 124. In the Valley of the Shenandoah 125. The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore 126. Something Got a Hold of Me 127. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room 128. Keep on the Firing Line 129. The Wave on the Sea 130. The Rambling Boy