Carter Family Carter Family Collection Vol. 1 1927-34 CD

The Carter Family are among the most important artists in the entire history of popular music. They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market, and their huge output of songs and recordings has become a major influence on music that has come after them in bluegrass, country, gospel, folk, skiffle, pop and rock. Acrobat has recognised their importance by creating two 6-CD sets to present the primary element of their recorded output - those recordings between 1927 and 1941 featuring the original incarnation of the group, A.P. Carter, his wife Sara Carter, and his sister in-law Maybelle Carter. This first of the sets addresses the years from 1927 to 1934, in a 125-track 6-CD collection comprising just about all their releases from this era on the Victor, Montgomery Ward and Bluebird labels. It features their famous hits from these years, including "Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow", Keep On the Sunny Side", Wildwood Flower", "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes", "Little Darling Pal of Mine", "Worried Man Blues", and "Lonesome Valley" along with other classics like "My Clinch Mountain Home", "Foggy Mountain Top", "John Hardy" and "Jimmie Brown The Newsboy". These two highly significant releases will give enthusiasts the chance to have a comprehensive collection of the first era Carter Family recordings, complete with Acrobat's usual substantial booklet with comprehensive discographical information and detailed narrative.

1. Wandering Boy 2. Poor Orphan Child 3. Single Girl Married Girl 4. Storms Are on the Ocean 5. Little Log Cabin By the Sea 6. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 7. River of Jordan 8. Keep on the Sunny Side 9. I Ain't Goin' to Work Tomorrow 10. Chewing Gum 11. Little Darling Pal of Mine 12. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone 13. Wildwood Flower 14. Forsaken Love 15. I Have No One to Love Me (But the Sailor) 16. Anchored in Love 17. My Clinch Mountain Home 18. Foggy Mountain Top 19. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes 20. Engine # 21. God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign 22. Little Moses 23. Lula Walls 24. Sweet Fern 25. Grave on the Green Hillside 26. Diamonds in the Rough 27. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man 28. Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me 29. Cyclone of Rye Cove 30. Homestead on the Farm 31. When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland 32. No Telephone in Heaven 33. Western Hobo 34. A Distant Land to Roam 35. Kitty Waltz 36. Lover's Farewell 37. When the Springtime Comes Again 38. When the World's on Fire 39. Cannon Ball Blues 40. Worried Man Blues 41. Don't Forget This Song 42. Little Log Hut in the Lane 43. I Have An Aged Mother 44. On the Rock Where Moses Stood 45. Darling Nellie Across the Sea 46. Where Shall I Be 47. No More the Sun Shines on Lorena 48. Lonesome Valley 49. The Birds Were Singin' of You 50. There's Someone Waiting for Me 51. Jimmie Brown the Newsboy 52. When I'm Gone 53. I Can't Feel at Home 54. Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family 55. Fond Affection 56. Sow 'Em on the Mountain 57. My Old Cottage Home 58. Lonesome for You 59. Let the Church Roll on 60. Room in Heaven for Me 61. Weary Prodigal Son 62. Sunshine in the Shadows 63. Dying Soldier 64. Motherless Children 65. Tell Me That You Love Me 66. I Never Loved But One 67. Where We'll Never Grow Old 68. We Will March Through the Streets of the City 69. Mid the Green Fields of Virginia 70. Picture on the Wall 71. Happiest Days of All 72. Amber Tresses 73. Lonesome Pine Special 74. Carter's Blues 75. Wabash Cannonball 76. Meet Me By Moonlight, Alone 77. Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven? 78. The Spirit of Love Watches Over Me 79. Sweet As the Flowers in Maytime 80. If One Won't Another Will 81. Church in the Wildwood 82. The Sun of the Soul 83. Broken Hearted Lover 84. Two Sweethearts 85. Winding Stream 86. I Wouldn't Mind Dying 87. Give Me Roses While I Live 88. Gold Watch and Chain 89. I Loved You Better Than You Knew 90. See That My Grave Is Kept Green 91. This Is Like Heaven to Me 92. On the Sea of Galilee 93. Home By the Sea 94. Over the Garden Wall 95. Will My Mother Know Me There 96. On My Way to Canaan's Land 97. Cowboy Jack 98. I Never Will Marry 99. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight 100. Hello Central, Give Me Heaven 101. Darling Daisies 102. The Lovers Return 103. East Virginia Blues 104. Happy or Lonesome 105. I'm Working on a Building 106. One Little Word 107. You've Been Fooling Me Baby 108. Away Out on the Old Saint Sabbath 109. It'll Aggravate Your Soul 110. The Evening Bells Are Ringing 111. Longing for Old Virginia 112. Cowboy's Wild Song to the Herd 113. My Heart's Tonight in Texas 114. I'll Be Home Some Day 115. There'll Be Joy Joy Joy 116. Mountains of Tennessee 117. Are You Tired of Me, My Darling? 118. There's No Hiding Place Down There 119. On a Hill Lone and Grey 120. Sailor Boy 121. Faded Coat of Blue 122. March Winds Goin' to Blow My Blues All Away 123. Why There's a Tear in My Eye 124. Carter Family ; Jimmie Rodgers in Texas 125. The Wonderful City