Across the Blue Ridge #35 - The Carter Family Songs Live On

This week we take some time with the repertoire of early country music superstars The Carter Family.  From their rural home in far southwest Virginia, the Carters –  A.P., his wife Sara, and A.P.'s sister-in-law Maybelle – traveled to record at the 1927 Victor sessions in Bristol, Tennessee, where talent scout Ralph Peer grasped their potential for his developing industry.  Today their songs live on, and we'll listen to a fine selection of the originals along with some newer interpretations.  Included in the show: Flatt & Scruggs, Jim Watson, Ann Porcella, Carol Elizabeth Jones, Laurel Bliss, and Mac & Jenny Traynham. There could be many more, and we could listen to Carter Family songs for weeks.  But this is a fine, fun start.

Episode 35 Playlist

1. Sally Ann
   Flatt & Scruggs
   Foggy Mountain Banjo
    
2. The Foggy Mountain Top
   Carter Family
   My Clinch Mountain Home
    
3. The Foggy Mountain Top
   Flatt & Scruggs
   Songs of the Famous Carter Family
    
4. The Storms Are On The Ocean
   Carter Family
   Anchored In Love
    
5. The Storms Are On The Ocean
   Flatt & Scruggs
   Songs of the Famous Carter Family
    
6. Foresaken Love
   Carter Family
   My Clinch Mountain Home
    
7. Break 1 - Schottische Time
   Dock Boggs
   His Folkways Years Disc 1
    
8. Forsaken Love
   Flatt & Scruggs
   Songs of the Famous Carter Family
    
9. The Cyclone of Rye Cove
   Carter Family
   My Clinch Mountain Home
    
10. The Cyclone of Rye Cove
    Carol Elizabeth Jones & Laurel Bliss
    Ridin' Along
     
11. Keep On The Sunny Side
    Carter Family
    Anchored In Love
     
12. Keep On The Sunny Side
    The Whites
    O Brother, Where Art Thou
     
13. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
    John Hartford
    O Brother, Where Art Thou
     
14. Break 2 - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
    John Hartford
    O Brother, Where Art Thou
     
15. A Distant Land To Roam
    Jim Watson
    This World Would Be All Sunshine
     
16. God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
    Carter Family
    My Clinch Mountain Home
     
17. I've Got A Home IN That Rock
    Ann Porcella
    Gathering Stones
     
18. My Old Clinch Mountain Home
    Mac & Jenny Traynham
    Never Grow Old
     
19. Lonesome For You Darling
    Carter Family
    Clinch Mountain Treasures