Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.3 / 5.0

The Best Of The Best.......?:

With out a doubt, this is a very good collection of the Carter Family's hits. But, it would be impossible to pick out any 10 of thier songs and call them the best of the best. This collection left me feeling hungry for more. While this CD does give one a taste of the quality of the Carter's talents a true Carter fan would be better served by the rounder series. Every song of the Carters is a treasure and a true fan will want to hear them every one.

"Best Of The Best" ?:

Well, no, not really. The meager choice used here range from Carter "good" to indispensible, but the vast array of Carter riches available renders this selection meaningless at best, misleading at worst. And the use of a three decades later remake of "Wildwood Flower" is inexcuseable. Better to buy, piece-meal, the classic Rounder 9-volume series and see the whole picture, or hold back your pennies for the impatiently awaited 12-volume box set due soon from Bear Family. Of the other volumes available, the... more info

Nostalgic return to the originals of country music, awesome:

This CD gives one the chance to step back in time to the originals of country music. Although the background is a bit 'raspy" the feeling comes through.

The pliantive vocals harkened me back to my childhood in the fifties. It brought back memories of Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, Ernest Tubbs and Red Sovine etc. Although, the original Carters were much earlier than the fifties, the music has much of the plaintive quality of the country music of the fifties. This is country music with all the feeling with... more info

Tracks:

1. Keep on the Sunny Side
2. Wabash Cannonball
3. Picture on the Wall
4. 'Mid the Green Fields of Virginia
5. Motherless Children
6. Worried Man Blues
7. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
8. Wildwood Flower -
9. Diamonds in the Rough
10. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?

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