Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family

The Original Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family

Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family
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Artist: The Original Carter Family
Brand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-07-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)
  2. Lulu Walls
  3. My Clinch Mountain Home
  4. Wildwood Flower
  5. Worried Man Blues
  6. Keep on the Sunny Side
  7. Gospel Ship
  8. My Texas Girl
  9. Sinking in the Lonesome Sea
  10. Cannon Ball Blues
  11. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
  12. River of Jordan
  13. Storms Are on the Ocean
  14. On the Rock Where Moses Stood
  15. Little Black Train
  16. Single Girl, Married Girl
  17. Kissing Is a Crime
  18. Blackie's Gunman
  19. My Home Among the Hills
  20. Black Jack David

Free Music Notes for Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family

Free Music Review: Roots of American music
Hit: 4 Stars

Vital recordings in the development of popular music in America, the Carter's importance and contributions are hard to overestimate. These are EARLY recordings though and the sound quality is mediocre at best and painful other times. Nonetheless it is time well spent to listen critically and as a study both in understanding where we come from, and where we are going...not to mention to use as an influence for musicians and songwriters of today.

The Carter's understood that the best popular music deals with the deep, yet common (to us all) questions of life. Aspects rarely touched on today in music, or any place in the modern secular culture that worships innovation, and admits only a materialistic existence. Even religion today can be watered down to a point that it does not address these meaning of life ideas. NOT SO with the Carter's--who remind us that (perhaps especially)common people in common circumstances have mysterious and supernatural implications. Young lovers desire ETERNITY together, they face TEMPTATION, and struggle to trust the wisdom of the ages over their fickle emotions and self-centeredness....to learn to TRUST GOD, and FEAR NOT during the easily intimidating adventures of life! These are FAR MORE thought provoking, meaningful, and intelligently composed songs and lyrics than the---"do me now bitch" content of today's excuse for popular music.
And the Progressives say we are getting smarter--evolving intellectually...I can see NO evidence of that! Read G. K. Chesterton also!

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 Bartlett

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