A Proper Introduction to the Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side [IMPORT]

Carter Family

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 20, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Proper Introduction
• ASIN: B0002Z9WZW
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,580 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

  Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

  #33 in	Music > Country > Classic Country > Old-Time Country
  #40 in	Music > Imports > Country

Track Listings

1. Keep on the Sunny Side

2. Little Darling Pal of Mine

3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man

4. Wildwood Flower

5. Sweet Fern

6. My Clinch Mountain Home

7. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes

8. Lula Walls

9. Foggy Mountain Top

10. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy

11. Carter's Blues

12. Wabash Cannonball

13. Diamonds in the Rough

14. Kitty Waltz

15. Cannonball

16. Worried Man Blues

17. Lonesome Valley

18. Lonesome Pine Special

19. Church in the Wildwood

20. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Import exclusive compilation features comprehensive liner notes, photographs, & discographies. Proper. 2004.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best single disc Carter Family cd for the money, November 28, 2004

By	Primo-Dino (Rosarita Beach) - See all my reviews

You get several picture-ful phamplets included in the deluxe packaged cd! It is priced at a budget affordable price. It includes all of thier seminal early essential sides, and captures them at thier creative peak. If you don't have any backwoods old timey vinatge 1930's mountian music, this is where to start. This is the half of what influenced later bands like Bob Wills, Hank Penny, and Spade Cooley(of couse the other half of the influence would have been Jelly Roll Morton or Fats Waller). Great cd.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent choice, but consider alternatives first, March 18, 2006

By	Ronald Levao (Princeton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There are several excellent one-CD compilations of the Carter Family, but this looks like the most for the money. But if you are just starting out, you might check some of the exceptional box sets that are available. Proper itself puts out "Proper Box" collections of 4-CD sets for between $18 and $25, depending on where you buy them (Amazon marketplace, e.g.). So you can get 4 times the Carters for about double the price. (There are, in fact 2 4-CD sets of the Carters, early and late career.) Give a listen first. The Carters are old-timey but NOT shrill; there is a dreamy, mournful, sweetness in their singing that makes them utterly sublime--unlike their contemporary Jimmy Rodgers (the Blue yodeller), who is great fun, just as historically significant, but has much less range and interest than do the wonderful Carters.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best of the Carter Family, January 21, 2009

By	John Best "Secesh" (Poteau, OK USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have several albums of the Carter Family. This one must rank as number 1. The 25 selections must have been taken from original 1929 recordings. I recommend all lovers of the Carter Family buy this album.