The Carter Family: Country Legends
Genre: Country	Dates: 1928-1941

The Carters were the first family of country music (with Jimmie Rodgers—see below—playing the role of the lascivious and wizened uncle). Of course, you probably know both Johnny Cash and Brit new waver Nick Lowe married in; of course, you probably know both June Carter and Rosanne Cash, icons in their own right, are progeny. But you might not know the songs, and while this isn’t exactly the stuff that parties are made from (“Keep on the Sunny Side” being a major exception), it’s a clear line into the lives, minds, hearts, and spirits of Appalachians just before and after the turn of the 19th century to the 20th. Note to feminists: Mother Maybelle’s autoharp playing is one of the most influential sounds in country music. Note to musicologists: Daddy A. P. put his name on many of these, but most he dug straight out of the hills.

Playlist:

1. Wildwood Flower
2. Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow
3. Keep On The Sunny Side
4. Little Darling, Pal Of Mine
5. My Clinch Mountain Home
6. Wabash Cannonball
7. Foggy Mountain Top, The
8. Lonesome Valley
9. Girl On The Greenbriar Shore, The
10. Hello, Central! Give Me Heaven
11. Worried Man Blues
12. Lonesome Homesick Blues
13. Jimmie Brown The Newsboy
14. Keep On The Firing Line
15. Cannon-ball, The
16. I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes