The best music ever. I am Australian but my grand-mother on my Dad's side was born and raised in America; Southern...I grew up playing and singing all the American folk and bluegrass and The Carter Family was the main. They truly are the history of American's south.
It was certainly common for AP, who would wander in and out, stop singing, start again, and during live performances, walk off stage and out the door for a breather!
Yes, it was somewhat amateurish and unpolished, but these people had no formal training...what you hear is what was handed down to them across generations. Authentic music with roots reaching down hundreds of years.
What you are hearing is the fulcrum point... the mother-root of all that country music would ever become, or aspire to be. This is the actual recording that The Carter Family made with their producer Ralph Peer in Bristol in 1927. The first of six songs to be recorded that day. God bless them for what they did there... They are owed everything .
Sara played the autoharp on her lap, so she and Maybelle sat, while A.P. hovered near the microphone. Maybelle played guitar and all three sang, but Sara was singing the lead everytime! This is wonderful music, and I'm glad people are still listening to them!
Denny, calling the Carter Family " the beginning of Country" is an accurate description that they have long held. But I'm beginning to believe that description actually shortchanges the Carters. Because when the study of American music origins is undertaken, Country, Folk, Rock, Pop, Bluegrass, etc, you always end up back at the Carters.
Somehow the Carters are the focal point between the past and today, and to call their influence on our music, "profound" is an understatement!
My heart is sad and I'm in sorrow,
for the only one I love,
when shall I see him, oh, no never,
'till I meet him in heaven above.
CHORUS
Oh, bury me under the weeping willow,
yes, under the weeping willow tree.
So he may know where I am sleeping,
and perhaps he will weep over me.
They told me that he did not love me,
I could not believe it was true,
until an angel softly whispered,
"He has proven untrue to you."
Yes, she is in picture 0:24, (in the middle) but also on some other pictures! These pictures was taken for the Life Magazine, but never published. One week after the photos were taken, the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, so they were never published.
I'm glad you enjoyed the song! On thsi song, Sara is singing. So is A.P. Maybelle is just playing on the guitar, she was a bit shy.. But later Maybelle started to join in, and sing:-)
0:02 My heart is sad, and I'm in sorrow
For the only one I love
When shall I see him, oh, no, never
Till I meet him in heaven above
0:29 Oh, bury me under the weeping willow
Yes, under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where I am sleeping
And perhaps he will weep for me
0:38 They told me that he did not love me
I could not believe it was true
Until an angel softly whispered
He has proven untrue to you
0:55 Oh, bury me under the weeping willow
Yes, under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where I am sleeping
And perhaps he will weep for me
1:28 Tomorrow was our wedding day
But, oh Lord, where is he
He's gone to seek him another bride
And he cares no more for me
1:45 Oh, bury me under the weeping willow
Yes, under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where I am sleeping
And perhaps he will weep for me
2:17 Oh, bury me under the violets blue
To prove my love to him
Tell him that I would die to save him
For his love I never could win
2:34 Oh, bury me under the weeping willow
Yes, under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where I am sleeping
And perhaps he will weep for me
