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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

An excellent primer on the first family of country music:

This compilation features 25 of the Carter Family's classics taken from original 78's and were recorded in between 1927-1938. This collection actually sounds nice concerning the source material, age of recordings, etc and best of all, they are original recordings. Most of these tracks were originally released by RCA Victor, yet there are some later tracks on it as well and it features mainly their signature songs such as the title track, Keep on The Sunny Side, Worried Man Blues (later covered by the... more info

Tracks:

1. Wildwood Flower
2. Keep on the Sunny Side
3. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
4. Little Log Cabin by the Sea
5. Little Darlin' Pal of Mine
6. Anchored in Love
7. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
8. River of Jordan
9. Sweet Fern
10. My Clinch Mountain Home
11. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
12. Lulu Walls
13. Foggy Mountain Top
14. Carter's Blues
15. Wabash Cannonball
16. Jimmie Brown, the Newsboy

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