#maybelle carter

[lisamarie-vee]

#the carter sisters #mother maybelle #maybelle carter #country music #1950s #grand ole opry

[joegramoe]

Mother Maybelle Carter and Johnny Cash

#maybelle carter #johnny cash #country music legends #the man in black #the highwaymen

[mywifeleftme]

273: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band // Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1972, United Artists

Who can endure a sentimentalist music critic? Still, this morning anyway, my heart’s fit to weep over a one-hundred-and-ten minutes of exultant roots music and a beautiful idea executed to perfection. The notion behind Will the Circle Be Unbroken was to use the Dirt Band, a crew of talented longhairs from California, as a bridge between the trendy country rock of the day and the genre’s pantheon of avuncularly voiced pioneers. (And I guess in Maybelle Carter’s case ‘aunticularly voiced.’) Many of these sorts of intergenerational tribute projects give me queasy tasting notes of hapless arts council funding or the rap number from Walk Hard, but somehow this triple LP from the heart of rock’s imperial phase manages to be both reverent of traditional country and bluegrass history and present these genres as living organisms.

The Dirt Band are joined by a Field of Dreams cast of legends, plus an adjunct wing of ace players like fiddle genius Vassar Clements, and while the Dirties sneak in one original the focus is squarely on the standards. None of these takes supplant the originals, but the recording fidelity, superlative playing, and warm communal energy make for lovely alternatives. Merle Travis’s “Dark as a Dungeon,” one of the greatest folk and country songs of the century, has never sounded more lovely or doomed; Doc Watson gives Jimmie Driftwood’s “Tennessee Stud” a broad-shouldered boisterousness; Earl Scruggs and the Dirt Band’s John McEuen present the classic fiddle reel “Soldier’s Joy” as an infectious banjo duel. 

Many of the songs include snatches of studio chatter between the band and their guests: Mother Maybelle sounds like the sweetest old thing imaginable; Roy Acuff comes off like as much of a pompous Haven Hamilton-type as I’d always heard he was; Jimmy Martin gives elderly prospector cricket. The tapes are even rolling for the first meeting of guitar legends Travis and Watson, who have an adorably awkward little chat before declaring themselves “buddies.” These peeks into the process are part of Circle’s artifice, but it feels like an honest attempt to capture the historic nature of the summit. The album rounds off with nods to the deep past in the form of a number of Carter family cuts, an homage to bluegrass father “Uncle” Dave Macon, and a group singalong of the spiritual “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” But then, right there at the end, we get 17-year-old Randy Scruggs performing a solo instrumental take on Joni Mitchell’s 1968 “Both Sides, Now.” The symbolism of the teenaged son of Earl Scruggs playing such a recent (and aptly-named) tune is clear, quietly closing the circle between past and present, a pact sealed.

273/365

#the nitty gritty dirt band #merle travis #doc watson #roy acuff #mother maybelle carter #maybelle carter #vassar clements #uncle dave macon #earl scruggs #jimmy martin #bluegrass #country #'70s music #music review #vinyl record

[cbjustmusic]

Mother Maybelle Carter and daughters Helen and Anita performing “Keep on the Sunny Side” in 1965. ________________________ Music by Howard Entwisle; Lyrics by Ada Blenkhorn

There's a dark and a troubled side of life There's a bright and a sunny side, too Though we meet with the darkness and strife The sunny side we also may view

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Keep on the sunny side of life It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way If we'll keep on the sunny side of life

The storm and its fury broke today Crushing hopes that we cherished so dear Clouds and storm will in time pass away The sun again will shine bright and clear

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Keep on the sunny side of life It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way If we'll keep on the sunny side of life

Let us greet with a song of hope each day Though the moment be cloudy or fair Let us trust in our savior always Who keep us every one in his care

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Keep on the sunny side of life It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way If we'll keep on the sunny side of life

#maybelle carter #helen carter #anita carter #howard entwisle #ada blenkhorn

[professeur-stump]

Music forms a new Circle

2271. Will the Circle be Unbroken, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will the Circle be Unbroken, 1971) (United Artists, 1972)

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#Nitty Gritty Dirt Band #Maybelle Carter #Le Compost

[farewelldorothyparker]

Maybelle Carter | 1963

#maybelle carter #mother maybelle carter #1963 #newport folk festival #music #photography

[adsmusiconstellations]

The Louvin Brothers – Satan Is Real (1959)

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#the louvin brothers #satan is rea #capitol #country #charlie louvin #ira louvin #usa #bluegrass #gospel #ken nelson #maybelle carter #hazel houser #fay cunningham #Edgar L. Edens #audio #1959 #1950s #satan

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Sue Foley - “Oh, Babe it Ain’t No Lie”

Sue Foley brings Elizabeth Cotten into the 21st century on “Oh, Babe it Ain’t No Lie.”

The solo, nylon-string-acoustic performance announces the March 29 arrival of One Guitar Woman, a tribute to Foley’s inspirations, who also include Memphis Minnie, Lydia Mendoza, Maybelle Carter, Ida Presti and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

“From the time I decided to be a professional guitar player, I’ve always looked for female role models,” Foley said in a statement.

“These are the women who were expressing themselves through the instrument as far back as the 1920s, at the inception of radio and recorded music. They are the trailblazers and visionaries whose footsteps I walk in.”

Foley walks with Cotten on “Oh, Babe,” which is only slightly slower than Cotten’s original and diverges mostly on account of the differences in technology and voice.

Grade card: Sue Foley - “Oh, Babe it Ain’t No Lie” - A

2/14/24

#Youtube #sue foley #elizabeth cotten #one guitar woman #oh babe it ain’t no lie #memphis minnie #lydia mendoza #maybelle carter #ida presti #sister rosetta tharpe

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Maybelle Carter

#maybelle carter #Spotify

[upperswampmonkey]

Wildwood Flower - Mother Maybelle Carter

#youtube #mother maybelle carter #nitty gritty dirt band

[lisamarie-vee]

#a.p. carter #maybelle carter #sara carter #the carter family #b&w #country music

[rockincountryblues]

Carter Sisters, Mother Maybelle and Chet Atkins

#Carter Sisters #Mother Maybelle #Chet Atkins #Grand Ole Opry

[tonreihe]

“Given the kinship of the ancient lyre, or barbitos, to the autoharp Sappho’s cunningly woven assonances and consonances probably sounded like Mother Maybelle Carter.”

—Guy Davenport, Introduction to Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments

#guy davenport #sappho #mother maybelle carter

[cbjustmusic]

Mother Maybelle, Helen and Anita Carter performing "Worried Man Blues" in 1963. _______________________ Worried Man Blues Traditional

It takes a worried man to sing worried song It takes a worried man to sing worried song I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

I went across the river, and I lay down to sleep I went across the river, and I lay down to sleep When I woke up, had shackles on my feet

Twenty nine links of chain around my leg Twenty nine links of chain around my leg And on each link, the initial of my name

It takes a worried man to sing worried song It takes a worried man to sing worried song I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

I asked that judge, tell me, what might be my fine I asked that judge, tell me, what might be my fine Twenty one years on the R C Mountain line

The train arrived, sixteen coaches long The train arrived, sixteen coaches long The girl I love is on that train and gone

It takes a worried man to sing worried song It takes a worried man to sing worried song I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

If anyone asks you who composed this song If anyone asks you who composed this song Tell 'em t'was I, and I sing it all day long

It takes a worried man to sing worried song It takes a worried man to sing worried song I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

#maybelle carter #helen carter #anita carter

[julio-viernes]

Johnny Cash tuvo un sueño en el que escuchó "Love's Ring of Fire" de Merle Kilgore y June Carter - con versión original de Anita Carter en su LP "Folk Songs Old and New" (Mercury, 1962) y lanzada en single- acompañada de "trompetas mexicanas". Probablemente le influyó "The Lonely Bull", el primer éxito de Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

Cash le dijo a Anita: "Te daré unos cinco o seis meses más, y si no logras convertirla en éxito, la grabaré tal y como la siento".

Como el original de Anita jamás alcanzó el éxito, Cash la grabó "a la suya", añadiendo los vientos estilo mariachi de su sueño y retitulándola simplemente "Ring Of Fire". La editó el 19 de abril de 1963. Ese mismo sonido lo utilizó también en su versión de "It Ain't Me Babe" de Bob Dylan contenida en su LP "Orange Blossom Special" de 1965 (ese mismo año con ese mismo tema The Turtles consiguieron un 'hit' en clave pop). Tanto Mother Maybelle como las hermanas Carter aparecieron de manera destacada en la grabación de "Ring Of Fire" de Cash haciendo coros. Johnny no sólo modificó el arreglo de la canción, sino algunas de las frases iniciales del original de Anita Carter.

La hija de Cash, Rosanne, dijo más tarde sobre este "Anillo de Fuego": "La canción trata sobre el poder transformador del amor, y eso es lo que siempre ha significado para mí y eso es lo que siempre significará para los hijos de Cash".

#johnny cash #anita carter #june carter #merle kilgore #herb alpert #mother maybelle #bob dylan #the turtles #rosanne cash #youtube

[farewelldorothyparker]

Maybelle Carter at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival

#maybelle carter #mother maybelle carter #1963 #newport folk festival #music #photography