Title: Volume 2: 1935-1941
Artist: Carter Family
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065770822
Genre: Country Traditional

Ralph Peer 'discoverered' the Carters - already experienced musicians - in one of his recording trawls of the South. He continued to supervise their work for Victor and acted as their manager and publisher. In 1935, Peer left Victor to join ARC. The Carters followed him. ARC was big time. They released new material on their own labels and through stores chains - Sears, for example sold ARC output on the Conqueror label. Peer had secured a contract for 40 songs, and recording was expected to take a week. We open with those sessions. There was some re-recording of Victor work, but there is also much that is new. The first day yielded three songs - ascribed as usual to AP. At least one, Sinking In The Lonesome Sea, has roots in the English folk tradition. Can the Circle Be Unbroken had been recorded for Victor - but had not been released. It sold well for ARC. Notable from this session is Sad And Lonesome Day, uncannily close to Blind Lemon Jefferson's See My Grave Is Kept Clean. Also to achieve enduring fame are My Texas Girl and Gospel Ship which has become a church standard throughout the South. Both black and white non-conformist movements can lay claim to it's origins. A reminder that distinct as the Blues and Country traditions are now, they were inextricably intertwined. The most notable feature of the Carter's work at this time was the evolution of Sara and Maybelle as singers of power and profundity, as evidenced on both Single Girl, Married Girl and Keep On The Sunny Side. The Fate Of Dewey Lee is a murder drama based on real life. Lee's family asked for the song not to be released. They were too late. This seems genuinely to have caused AP anguish. In later years he is said to have sung the song with some reluctance. This collection follows the Carters through several changes of label, marital strife and their triumphant transfer to 'border radio'. No collector with an interest in American music and it's origins should be without it.

Tracks:
1.1 Glory to the Lamb
1.2 Behind Those Stone Walls
1.3 Sinking in the Lonesome Sea
1.4 He Took a White Rose from Her Hair
1.5 Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)
1.6 Let's Be Lovers Again
1.7 Your Mother Still Prays (For You Jack)
1.8 Kissing Is a Crime
1.9 Don't Forget Me Little Darling
1.10 Sad and Lonesome Day
1.11 By the Touch of Her Hand
1.12 East Virginia Blues No.2
1.13 My Old Virginia Home
1.14 My Virginia Rose Is Blooming
1.15 My Texas Girl
1.16 No Other's Bride I'll Be
1.17 Gathering Flowers from the Hillside
1.18 Gospel Ship
1.19 Little Black Train
1.20 Keep on the Sunny Side
1.21 River of Jordan
1.22 Lonsesome Vally
1.23 God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
1.24 Single Girl, Married Girl
1.25 The Fate of Dewey Lee
1.26 Wildwood Flower
2.1 Sea of Galilee
2.2 Don't Forget This Song
2.3 My Clinch Mountain Home
2.4 The Storms Are on the Ocean
2.5 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone
2.6 Broken Hearted Lover
2.7 Little Darling Pal of Mine
2.8 The Homestead on the Farm
2.9 Cannon Ball Blues
2.10 Meet Me By the Moonlight Alone
2.11 On the Rock Where Moses Stood
2.12 Lulu Walls
2.13 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
2.14 Worried Man Blues
2.15 My Dixie Darling
2.16 Give Me Your Love and I'll Give You Mine
2.17 Are You Lonseome Tonight?
2.18 The Last Move for Me
2.19 The Wayworn Traveller
2.20 Just Another Broken Heart
2.21 When Silver Threads Are Gold Again
2.22 There's No One Like Mother to Me
2.23 In a Little Village Churchyard
2.24 Jealous Hearted Me
3.1 My Native Home
3.2 Sweet Heaven in My View
3.3 No Depression
3.4 Bonny Blue Eyes
3.5 My Honey Lou
3.6 In the Shadow of the Eyes
3.7 Answer to Weeping Willow
3.8 You've Been a Friend to Me
3.9 Where the Silvery Colorado Wends It's Way
3.10 Lay My Head Beneath the Rose
3.11 The Broken Down Tramp
3.12 Lover's Lane
3.13 Hold Fast to the Right
3.14 Lord I'm in Your Care
3.15 Funny When You Feel That Way
3.16 In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain
3.17 Hello Stranger
3.18 Never Let the Devil Get the Upper Hand of You
3.19 When This Evening Sun Goes Down
3.20 Jim Blake's Message
3.21 Honey in the Rock
3.22 Look How This World Has Made a Change
3.23 The Little Girl That Played on My Knee
3.24 You Better Let That Liar Alone
3.25 Farewell Nellie
3.26 The Only Girl (I Ever Cared About)
4.1 Goodbye to the Plains
4.2 My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
4.3 Dark Haired True Lover
4.4 He Never Came Back
4.5 Happy in the Prison
4.6 Walking in the King's Highway
4.7 St. Regious Girl
4.8 Just a Few More Days
4.9 Bring Back My Boy
4.10 It Is Better Farther on
4.11 Charlie and Nellie
4.12 Cuban Soldier
4.13 The Heart That Was Broken for Me
4.14 You're Nothing More to Me
4.15 Stern Old Bachelor
4.16 Little Joe
4.17 Reckless Motorman
4.18 You Denied Your Love
4.19 Oh Take Me Back
4.20 You Are My Flower
4.21 Who's That Knocking at My Window
4.22 They Call Her Mother
4.23 Coal Miner's Blues
4.24 Young Freda Bolt
4.25 Little Poplar Log House on the Hill
4.26 The Dying Mother
4.27 Buddies in the Saddle
5.1 Heaven's Radio
5.2 Beautiful Home
5.3 There'll Be No Distinction There
5.4 Give Him One More As He Goes
5.5 Lonesome for You Darling
5.6 Blackie's Gunman
5.7 You've Got to Righten That Wrong
5.8 Meeting in the Air
5.9 My Home Among the Hills
5.10 Black Jack David
5.11 Look Away from the Cross
5.12 We Shall Rise
5.13 I Found You Among the Roses
5.14 Bear Creek Blues
5.15 I'll Never Forsake You
5.16 Beautiful Isle O'er the Sea
5.17 It's a Long Road to Travel Alone
5.18 Why Do You Cry, Little Darling
5.19 Lonesome Homesick Blues
5.20 Dark and Stormy Weather
5.21 In the Valley of the Shenandoah
5.22 The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore
5.23 Something Got a Hold of Me
5.24 Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
5.25 Keep on the Firing Line
5.26 The Wave on the Sea
5.27 The Rambling Boy

Carter Family: Volume 2: 1935-1941

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