The Carter Family - The 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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

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

Disc: 2

1. Little Moses
2. Lula Walls
3. Sweet Fern
4. Grave on the Green Hillside
5. Diamonds in the Rough
6. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
7. Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me
8. Cyclone of Rye Cove
9. Homestead on the Farm
10. When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
11. No Telephone in Heaven
12. Western Hobo
13. A Distant Land to Roam
14. Kitty Waltz
15. Lover's Farewell
16. When the Springtime Comes Again
17. When the World's on Fire
18. Cannon Ball Blues
19. Worried Man Blues
20. Don't Forget This Song
21. Little Log Hut in the Lane

Disc: 3

1. I Have An Aged Mother
2. On the Rock Where Moses Stood
3. Darling Nellie Across the Sea
4. Where Shall I Be
5. No More the Sun Shines on Lorena
6. Lonesome Valley
7. The Birds Were Singin' of You
8. There's Someone Waiting for Me
9. Jimmie Brown the Newsboy
10. When I'm Gone
11. I Can't Feel at Home
12. Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family
13. Fond Affection
14. Sow 'Em on the Mountain
15. My Old Cottage Home
16. Lonesome for You
17. Let the Church Roll on
18. Room in Heaven for Me
19. Weary Prodigal Son
20. Sunshine in the Shadows
21. Dying Soldier

Disc: 4

1. Motherless Children
2. Tell Me That You Love Me
3. I Never Loved But One
4. Where We'll Never Grow Old
5. We Will March Through the Streets of the City
6. Mid the Green Fields of Virginia
7. Picture on the Wall
8. Happiest Days of All
9. Amber Tresses
10. Lonesome Pine Special
11. Carter's Blues
12. Wabash Cannonball
13. Meet Me By Moonlight, Alone
14. Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven?
15. The Spirit of Love Watches Over Me
16. Sweet As the Flowers in Maytime
17. If One Won't Another Will
18. Church in the Wildwood
19. The Sun of the Soul
20. Broken Hearted Lover
21. Two Sweethearts

Disc: 5

1. Winding Stream
2. I Wouldn't Mind Dying
3. Give Me Roses While I Live
4. Gold Watch and Chain
5. I Loved You Better Than You Knew
6. See That My Grave Is Kept Green
7. This Is Like Heaven to Me
8. On the Sea of Galilee
9. Home By the Sea
10. Over the Garden Wall
11. Will My Mother Know Me There
12. On My Way to Canaan's Land
13. Cowboy Jack
14. I Never Will Marry
15. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
16. Hello Central, Give Me Heaven
17. Darling Daisies
18. The Lovers Return
19. East Virginia Blues
20. Happy or Lonesome

Disc: 6

1. I'm Working on a Building
2. One Little Word
3. You've Been Fooling Me Baby
4. Away Out on the Old Saint Sabbath
5. It'll Aggravate Your Soul
6. The Evening Bells Are Ringing
7. Longing for Old Virginia
8. Cowboy's Wild Song to the Herd
9. My Heart's Tonight in Texas
10. I'll Be Home Some Day
11. There'll Be Joy Joy Joy
12. Mountains of Tennessee
13. Are You Tired of Me, My Darling?
14. There's No Hiding Place Down There
15. On a Hill Lone and Grey
16. Sailor Boy
17. Faded Coat of Blue
18. March Winds Goin' to Blow My Blues All Away
19. Why There's a Tear in My Eye
20. Carter Family ; Jimmie Rodgers in Texas
21. The Wonderful City