Maybelle Carter - Wildwood Pickin
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Free Music Review: A Return to the Newport Folk Festival
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a life-long Mother Maybelle fan and was thrilled to have the opportunity to attend the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. It was all I'd hoped for, and more. Now, nearly 40 years later, I have my own autoharp and what would I give to sit at her feet to watch and listen to her play! This recording almost fills the bill...I wish the producers had included more of her simple, straight-forward dialogue as that was, to me, as captivating as her music. Well done, Mother Maybelle!Free Music Review: Carter Fans - Add to Shopping Cart!
Hit: 5 Stars
I recently `discovered' the original Carter Family recordings. On this CD, it is rather poignant to hear Maybelle without Sara and AP; as if one speaker channel were missing, but don't despair. The good news is that you get to hear Maybelle! Compared to the old 78's, Maybelle's extraordinary guitar picking comes thru even more brilliantly. She is also equally awesome on the autoharp. Tracks 8 - 12 leave me speechless. Five Stars!Free Music Review: Verbal History
Hit: 5 Stars
Much of the Carter Family history comes to us through the written word,so it was wonderful to hear Mother Maybelle talking about her experiences.Free Music Review: joy? for Brenda Joy
Hit: 4 Stars
I gave this to my friend Brenda at one of her guitar parties. She opened it and read all the titles and had a little story to tell about a few of them, that she did that song or who else did it or wrote it. It was quite a surprise, since I don't know that much about Maybelle, I only knew that the purity of Brenda's voice when she sings reminds me of her. Maybe it will be interesting to note that Brenda's not an accomplished musician, she just loves music and plays a bit. Well, she's a musician in my book because she loves it so much and does a lot to support it, working many long hours (in addition to her full time day job) to arrange house concerts and going to people's gigs and so forth. Maybe it won't be interesting for me to say that sometimes I wonder if I wasn't more of a musician when I wasn't playing/writing. I had more time to appreciate others. Now I feel a little more like just a hack. Maybe it will be even less interesting for me to opine here and warn the few people that are snobby about being musicians to take note that many people who don't play are more intensely musical than some of us who, really, just like to shoot our mouths off. La-di-da. Ok, whatever.Free Music Review: Maybelle at the Newport Folk Festival
Hit: 4 Stars
This is an interesting and highly entertaining album - Maybelle Carter recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival back in 1963. The voice is a little shaky, but then, she was 54 years old at the time. However, the technique on guitar is as distinctive and faultless as ever, whilst her autoharp playing is a revelation. There are interviews by Bill Clifton and Mike Seeger, but they are not sufficiently probing. I would have liked to have known more of her actual playing technique, but the surface of this subject is barely scratched. But the playing itself makes up for that; particularly her work on the autoharp. Items range from the Carters' 'Little Darling, Pal of Mine' through the evergreen 'San Antonio Rose' to the then newly popular 'Never on Sunday'; all performed with the consummate skill one would expect from a seasoned veteran such as Maybelle. Recording quality is good, though it is possible to pick up intrusive sounds from what are, presumably, neighbouring concerts. That aside, this is an album well worth adding to the collection of any Carter Family fan, and anyone appreciative of top quality guitar and autoharp playing.
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