A Proper Introduction to the Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side (2004)

About this title: Certainly there are dozens if not a hundred compilations of the music of the Carter Family. While Rounder issued the complete Victor recordings, and there have been some Columbia sets issued as well, this fairly priced single-disc, 25-cut collection from Proper is all most people need. These tunes were all taken from the 1920s and '30s, and are the original recorded versions of these standards. Virtually every major Carter cut is here -- "Wildwood Flower," "Stay on the Sunny Side," "John Hardy," "Wabash Cannonball," "Worried Man Blues," "My Clinch Mountain Home," and many others. For the ... read more

Tracks:

1. Keep on the Sunny Side [Carter]
2. Little Darling Pal of Mine [Carter]
3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man [Carter]
4. Wildwood Flower [Carter]
5. Sweet Fern [Carter]
6. My Clinch Mountain Home [Carter]
7. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes [Carter]
8. Lula Walls [Carter]
9. The Foggy Mountain Top [Carter]
10. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy [Carter]
11. Carter's Blues [Carter]
12. Wabash Cannonball [Carter]
13. Diamonds in the Rough [Carter]
14. Kitty Waltz [Carter]
15. The Cannonball [Carter]
16. Worried Man Blues [Carter]
17. Lonesome Valley [Carter]
18. Lonesome Pine Special [Carter]
19. Church in the Wildwood [Carter]
20. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains [Carter]
21. You Better Let That Liar Alone [Carter]
22. Cuban Soldier [Carter]
23. No Depression in Heaven [Carter]
24. Reckless Motorman [Carter]
25. Just Another Broken Heart [Carter]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.