Best Of The Best Of The Carter Family

Carter Family | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 1998)
• Original Release Date: December 30, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: King Special
• ASIN: B0000060HM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #580,621 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Best Of The Best" ?, May 17, 2000

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H. Marshall "oboe 245" (Oakland, Calif.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Of The Best Of The Carter Family (Audio CD)

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 Country Hall Of Fame album is of major interest, the missing link of the 1936-38 Decca sessions, it has "Hello, Stranger" and fine remastering. "Clinch Mountain Treasures" has even more of A.P.'s eclectic choices, uncollected from 1939-1940, including "Heaven"s Radio" and "There'll Be No Distinction There". The Border radio transcripions are marred by poor sound and daughter Janette's yowling, but it does have more original songs, a couple of brilliant versions of "Just Another Broken Heart", and to be fair to Janette, an utterly bone-chilling "Oh, Death". (And also to Janette: her talents were really elsewhere. In the early-80's she penned a lovely memoir, not so much about her famous parents and aunt as of an apparently very good soul growing up in the shadow of Clinch Mountain. It's long out-of-print, though may still be available in local libraries, and I wish it had been twice as long.)

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgic return to the originals of country music, awesome, July 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Of The Best Of The Carter Family (Audio CD)

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 little adornment. You can almost feel the sadness and bitterness when you listen to the music.

This album bears little resemblance to the "syrupy" country music of today. One feels little glamour and a "lot of country" while listening to the Carters.

For the purist this album takes a front seat place .

I whole heartedly endorse it.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Best Of The Best.......?, January 25, 2002

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Gary Moats - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of The Best Of The Carter Family (Audio CD)

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.