The Original Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family
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Artist: The Original Carter FamilyEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-07-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Can The Circle Be Unbroken (Bye And Bye)
- Lulu Walls
- My Clinch Mountain Home
- Wildwood Flower
- Worried Man Blues
- Keep On The Sunny Side
- Gospel Ship
- My Texas Girl
- Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
- Cannon Ball Blues
- I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
- River Of Jordan
- The Storms Are On The Ocean
- On The Rock Where Moses Stood
- The Little Black Train
- Single Girl, Married Girl
- Kissing Is A Crime
- Blackie's Gunman
- My Home Among The Hills
- Black Jack David
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Free Music Review: The Carter Family takes off with this one
Hit: 5 Stars
I absolutely loved this c.d. It took me back to another place and time in which I wasn't even born yet.
Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family Poster
Like so many Americans during the Depression, the Carter Family found themselves forced to stay in motion throughout the 1930s. Rural economies, the locales where country music had taken root, were hit unusually hard by the economic crash. The Carters left their original record label just prior to recording the first 17 of the 20 tunes on Can the Circle Be Unbroken, joining ARC for long enough to prodigiously churn out material they'd previously recorded. The 17 ARC songs here were recorded over 3 days in May 1935, and all reveal a Carter Family growing musically comfortable with their execution on these tunes--especially the slight dronelike quality in Sara's voice, which sounds settled and at times almost languid. Maybelle's voice and guitar emphasize the appropriately unhurried pacing (this was the Depression, after all). As for the closing trio of tracks, they come from a post-Decca session during their short tenure at Columbia, and all bear the mark of greater vocal harmonies between Sara and Maybelle, as well as an increased pitch in the vocals that quickens the pace a tad. These are vitally important recordings, to be sure, a fine, more multihued complement to the band's '20s-era recordings. --Andrew BartlettCountry Music CDs
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