Songs of the Carter Family [Import]

Songs of the Carter Family [Import]

ASIN: B00004SZOM

Track Listings

1. When The Roses Bloom In Dixiel

2. Jimmy Brown The Newsboy

3. Longing For Old Virginia

4. Wildwood Flower

5. My Clinch Mountain Home

6. Worried Man Blues

7. Solid Gone

8. Dixie Darling

9. A Faded Coat Of Blue

10. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight

11. My Home's Across The Blue Ridg

12. Keep On The Sunnyside

Tracks:

God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
Little Moses
Worried Man Blues
Longing For Home
Motherless Children
Storms Are On The Ocean
Keep On The Firing Line
Engine 143
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
Poor Orphan Child
On A Hill Lone And Grey
Waves On The Sea
Distant Land To Roam

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Given the direct line of progression between the songs of the Carter Family and the mountain music of the Stanley Brothers, it's surprising that it's taken the venerable Ralph Stanley more than a hundred albums before releasing one devoted solely to the Carters. The wait was worth it, for the rough-hewn soulfulness of Stanley's vocals and the unvarnished production truly conjure a distant land--a musical expanse far removed from the present--of seminal songs suffused with faith and a strong sense of mortality. From train songs ("Engine 143") to seafaring songs ("Waves on the Sea") to prisoner songs (the oft-recorded "Worried Man Blues"), Stanley takes material written by A.P. Carter or popularized by the Carter Family and plumbs the emotional depths. Many of these songs are spirituals, with guest autoharp by Mike Seeger and call-and-response harmonies on the opening "God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign," while the uptempo "Keep on the Firing Line" suggests a soldier-like commitment to Christ and the harmony-laden hymn "On a Hill Lone and Grey" describes the Crucifixion. The most familiar song here, "Motherless Children," is also the most powerful, with Stanley's a cappella first verse joined by the mournful strains of a funereal fiddle for the rest of the song. With "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes," the album shows how the Carter Family inspired what we've since called country music. --Don McLeese

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A Distant Land To Roam.......2007-01-18

Good song selection
Clear vocals
Crisp instrument playing
I like Ralph Stanley

Incomparable.......2006-11-21

Ralph Stanley may have the most distinctive and expressive voice in American music. Certainly few - if any - can convey the gravity and depth that his voice can. To listen to Ralph Stanley is to be reminded of what really matters in life. It is a voice without artifice or pretension, and nowhere does it sound more compelling than in this moving gem. I have been unable to stop playing it in the month or so I've owned it, and each time it transports me to a place as simple and enduring as the mountains of southwestern Virginia.

music.......2006-11-05

Songs of the Carter Family may be lost except for people like Ralph Stanley. Stanley's voice is fantastic for blue grass folks. My only regret is that Dr Stanley is getting old because he keeps a lot of the old music alive.

Stirring, Memorable but Acoustically Lacking.......2006-09-16

I echo all the favorable comments made by other reviewers. Ralph Stanley singing these songs, born of the soil, sounds like what an Old Testament prophet might sound like. I loved in particular "Little Moses."

What left me perplexed was the sound quality. I'm wondering if T. Bone Burnett wanted a mono-like sound reminiscent of the thirties and forties a la the era of the Carter Family. The soundstage is compressed and sounds like all the instruments are massed in the center. There's little imaging, air or separation between guitars, autoharp, banjo, etc. and Ralph, of course, is dead center. In addition, there's a haze or veil over the recording. Again, I'm wondering if this was intended to mimic those bygone days.

It doesn't get better than this.......2006-08-15

As a Stanley fan, I was a bit put off by the "Ralph Stanley" album that followed the O Brother craze. Too sparse, too morose, no bluegrass, whatever. But whether you are a longtime Stanleys fan, a Carter Family fan, or an "O Brother" fan, THIS album hits the sweet spot. Like someone else said, spreading Dr Ralph's genius on top of the Carters' genius - how could it go wrong in the hands of these master craftsmen? Each song has Ralph's soul and perfectly captures the old rough hewn Carter spirit too.

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Still singin' those mountain ballads after all these years

Best of the Carter Family
The Carter Family
Manufacturer: Prism Platinum
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004KRZF
Release Date: 2001-03-22

Tracks:

Keep on the Sunny Side
Wildwood Flower
Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
Anchored in Love
Worried Man Blues
John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
My Clinch Mountain Top
Foggy Mountain Top
Little Darling Pal of Mine
Sailor Boy
When I'm Gone
Single Girl , Married Girl
Rambling Boy
Mountain of Tennessee
My Old Cottage Home
Wandering Boy
In the Valley of the Shenandoah
Storms Are on the Ocean
Meet Me by the Moonlight Alone
Dying Soldier
Lonesome Valley
Chewing Gum
Jimmie Rogers Visits the Carter Family

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Still singin' those mountain ballads after all these years.......2006-12-05

Country music fans today, just listen to the music and enjoy it for what it is, but did we ever really think about the starts of country music? Who started it? What kind of songs did they sing? Were they any good? Did their children follow in their footsteps and were they sucessful?
So many questions!! This CD is the answer. The first family of country music was the Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle of Clinch Mountain, VA. But they were much more than mountain hilbillies who liked to party on friday nights. They wrote songs about lost love, the place they knew and loved, and most of all, just fun songs.
We start off with the legendary. "Keep on the Sunny Side," the Carter's theme song. This song is basically about how if we just look on the bright side of things, they aren't so bad after all. "Storms and clouds will in time pass away, and the sun again will shine, bright and clear."
Hey June Carter fans? Did you know where "Wildwood Flower" came from? It was from the good ol' Carter Family! Actually, it was one of their first hits, probably the most reknown carter family song in the world. About lost love, it's a song you'll want to sing 24/7!
"Worried Man Blues," is my very favorite Carter Family song. It has a catchy tune, and a good beat. The song is about a man who is sentenced to go to prison, but he has no idea what he's done. Filled with fun and laughter, this will become and family favorite.
"My Clinch Mountain Home," tells you alot about the Carter's backaround history. It reflects the carter's lives from "Ole Virginny."
"Foggy Mountain Top," is a great song. It features Sara's yodeling, and Maybelle's great guitar pickin'. This song, like "My Clinch Mountain Home", secretly shares backaround information about life as a Carter as well.
Ah, "Single Girl, Married Girl," the Carter's first hit, and undoubtfully their most sucessful. This is a solo for Sara, and also a solo for her autoharp.
In "My Old Cottage Home," A.P. does most of the singing, which is rare since he usually only did backup. Very similar to "My Clinch Mountain Home," but also very different. It's one of my favorites, so yuo will proabaly liek it too.
"The Valley of Shanandoah," is a very sad song. It tells a story about how a man fell in love with a beautiful girl in the past summer and promises to return to her next year so they can be married. Sadly, when the man returns, he finds that his true love had passed away into the great kingdom above. Teh song may be sad, but it capture your heart.
"Chewing Gum," is a really fun song to sing, and it really helps past the tiem away. A song that Sara wrote when she was a child, "Chewing Gum," features many funny lines that will make you laugh out loud as if you were watching Hee-Haw!
If you buy this CD, it's liek hearing the Carter's story through music. It's truly any country msuic fan's treasure. Be sure to read my other revies for June Carter Cash's "Press On", "Wildwood Flower", "Keep on teh Sunyn Side: Her life in Music, and "Live Recordings from the Lousiana Hayride."

June

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A gem to own, Maybelle plays guitar on You are My Flower!
WOW !! THIS IS THE APEX OF BLUEGRASS MUSICIANSHIP !
Great Music
Highly Splendid Mountain Music

Songs of the Famous Carter Family
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B0000024R4
Release Date: 1990-10-05

Tracks:

Keep On The Sunny Side
Foggy Mountain Top
False-Hearted Lover
Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
You Are My Flower
On The Rock Where Moses Stood
Forsaken Love
The Homestead On The Farm
Pickin' In The Wildwood
Worried Man Blues
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Gathering Flowers From The Hillside

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A gem to own, Maybelle plays guitar on You are My Flower!.......2004-06-21

This is a good album. One of the things I have always enjoyed is the way Flatt and Scruggs used the old Carter Tunes. Part of this has to do with the fact that Earl is probably the best player of Carter Style Tunes on the guitar, though his son Randy seems to have picked up the mantle. Of course, since the first Flatt and Scruggs records on Mercury, you can find Earl picking up the guitar for sacred tunes, where the banjo is seen as too profane, and later for Columbia when they started recording Carter family tunes.

In fact, some of the the earlier recordings Earl made of things like Jimmie Brown the Newsboy are superior to versions on this album. In fact, someone should collect them all and put out an Earl Scruggs plays guitar album.

The bad spot is the that it is recorded with too much echo and reverb and other stuff. Apparently, it was not all recorded live like all good string band music should be, and the sound suffers at times.

There is some great dobro playing by the great Josh Graves.
Lester Flatt must have sung fairly well, but, alas, all the fakery in the recording process diminishes his great voice and makes the group backup singing here sound a bit muddy. I would have like to have heard Maybelle sing more.

Earl does all the lead guitar playing except on one tune, "You are My Flower." It may not be noted in the notes, but when they cut this album Earl tried and tried and tried and tried to record the guitar part for that song. It is a beautiful song that Maybelle composed when the Carter family was based in Del Rio, Texas, playing on a 150,000 Watt station in Mexico. She said it tried to do what the beautiful Mexican tunes she heard did.

Earl tried everything. He even tried borrowing Maybelle's lengendary L-5 to cut the guitar track. He didn't have it up to his standards or probably to Maybelle's standards, and Maybelle was known for being a perfectionist when she got into a recording studio!

Finally, he had Maybelle do the guitar part on that track, even though this is not on the liners for this album either on vinyl or CD.

Earl was lucky. Maybelle also played the fiddle, the mandolin, and THE BANJO! She was known as the best musician in her little valley in Virginia from the time she was 12 or 13. Even when she was a teenager dads were telling their sons that they needed to work hard to be a banjo player or fiddler like that Maybelle Addington. She might have added a few of her frailing banjo licks here too.

WOW !! THIS IS THE APEX OF BLUEGRASS MUSICIANSHIP !.......2000-12-08

Thank the Good Lord a great recording engineer caught this music and recorded it well. This CD has some of the deepest and richest acoustic sounds you'll ever hear. Far too many of the old Bluegrass greats have less than acceptable sound recordings. Lester Faltt's vocals on this CD are as smooth as sippin' whiskey and gives you the same warm felling inside.

The sound engineering is so good on this CD, that while listening I've turned around thinking the dobro or autoharp, or banjo player was coming up behind me. This CD and Flatt and Scruggs' Live At Vanderbilt University recording are outstanding examples of Bluegrass musicianship - I can, without reservation ,recommend this CD to anyone who likes music.

Great Music.......1999-12-17

My Dad had this as an album in the 1960's and as silly youth we made fun of it ! 35 years later I purchased the CD. Like my father then, I am a little older and wiser now. I too love good music regardless of genre [I purchased a Jimi Hendrix CD along with this one ] . Flatt and Scruggs were the best at what they did regardless of of the genre. If you love to hear acoustic instruments played by masters this is the group to listen to. It is a CD that you can listen to straight through 12 tracks. You will be tapping your feet trying to sing along and attempting to clog dance even if you never knew how. Hey Dad- now my kids are making fun of my music er... OUR MUSIC !

Highly Splendid Mountain Music.......1999-09-30

Mother Maybelle Carter, a legend in country music history, joins bluegrass legends Flatt and Skruggs in a delightful collection of tunes originally recorded by the Carter Family. Lester Flatt does all of the vocals on this CD. I would have enjoyed hearing Maybelle's voice also, but there may have been an overriding reason why she chose to remain silent. Maybelle plays the autoharp on this one, rather than her usual guitar. Her playing meshes nicely with the playing of Flatt and Skruggs. On some of these tunes Earl Skruggs lays aside his famous banjo to play a guitar. All in all, this is a splendid listening experience for those who enjoy mountain music, and who are fans of the Carter Family, and Flatt and Skruggs.

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Tantalizing tidbits

Paul Sperry Sings An American Sampler

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1995-04-07

Tracks:

Pied Beauty
Orpheus with His Lute
My Sweet Old Etcetera
When Frost Moves Fast
Dirge for Two Veterans
Love in the Dictionary
Mourn, Mourn
George
Bells in the Rain
Horror Movie
Rose Family
And What of Love
Who Wrote This Fiendish Rite of Spring
Waitin'
Shadow of the Blues: Silhouette
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Shadow of the Blues: Could Be
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Leap Before You Look
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Spring
David's Lamentation
Dust of Snow
No One to Love
Lepidoptera Waltz
I Don't Wanna Rock and Roll

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Tantalizing tidbits.......2000-06-14

You may not love Paul Sperry's voice, but you gotta love his wide-ranging interests and his obvious joy in performing American music. Singers exploring the contemporary American art song will note numerous composers' dedications to this quirky tenor, and listening to his recordings, you quickly understand why. His interpretations go right to the heart of the matter, and proceed right over the top only when it's rigorously demanded in the music. Singers looking for new repertoire will also appreciate the extensive liner notes, in which Mr. Sperry explains where he found the songs.

The range of composers, beyond Billings and Bolcom to Weill and Weisgall, is maddening, giving a tantalizing taste of the diverse flavors of American song in the 20th century. The songs run the gamut of emotions, too, from Ben Weber's powerful 'Mourn, Mourn' to Cowell's sarcastic 'Who Wrote This Fiendish Rite of Spring?' to the loving memory of 'George.'

I highly recommend this accessible and communicative Sampler, and would also suggest that listeners try Mr. Sperry's more tightly focussed collection, Romantic American Songs.

Songs of the Carter Family
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songs and performances to stop the heart

Songs of the Carter Family
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
Manufacturer: Appleseed Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Adieu False Heart

ASIN: B00004WMYD
Release Date: 2000-09-26

Tracks:

Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbath
Bear Creek Blues
Meet Me In The Moonlight
Single Girl, Married Girl
Sow Em On The Mountain
Dreaming Of You Darling
Bye And Bye
Motherless Children
Dark And Stormy Weather
River Of Jordan
Don't Forget This Song
March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away

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The Carter Family were the most enigmatic performers in the early days of the country music industry. Over the years people tended to ignore the mystery in their music and concentrated instead on the folksy charm of "Wildwood Flower" or the piety of "Keep on the Sunny Side." But on Songs of the Carter Family Kate Brislin and Jody Stecher mostly eschew the familiar songs in favor of lesser-known but equally powerful tunes. And on songs such as "Dark and Stormy Weather," with its "wrong" harmonies that sound so right, or "Away out on the Old Saint Sabbath," with its haunting, ambiguous lyrics, the pair revels in the wild, barely civilized side of the Carters. Stecher and Brislin are two of the finest duet singers to emerge from the old-time music revival of the 1960s, and their sweet mountain harmonies and beautifully understated guitar picking are a fitting tribute to Sara, Maybelle, and A.P. Carter, the greatest old-time singers of them all. --Michael Simmons

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songs and performances to stop the heart.......2000-11-11

Like James Talley's brilliant collection of Woody Guthrie songs, Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin's Songs of the Carter Family is no collection of "covers." You can have heard the Carters most of your life, as I have, and still be awed and moved by the masterly treatment this veteran husband-and-wife team gives material associated with A.P., Sara, and Maybelle. Still, Stecher and Brislin wisely focus on the more obscure stuff. They choose it well, starting with the underdeservedly neglected "Away Out on the Old Saint Sabbath" -- one of those romantic, surrealistic Western songs in the vein of "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "Away Out on the Mountain," set in a frontier landscape of dreams. With California folk singer Larry Hanks, Stecher and Brislin turn their gorgeous neo-Appalachian harmonies to a stunning meditation on death and resurrection, "Bye and Bye," to heartbreaking, even eerie, effect. "Meet Me in the Moonlight" and the odd, archaic-sounding "Dark and Stormy Weather" grab the heart and don't let go. With one terrific song and magnificent performance after another, Songs of the Carter Family is surely one of the 10 best folk albums of 2000 and perhaps the finest Carter tribute ever.

Elliott Carter: The Minotaur; Piano Sonatas; Two Songs

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Astonishing

Elliott Carter: The Minotaur; Piano Sonatas; Two Songs

Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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The Minotaur: Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete - Queen Pasiphae prepares for a tryst with a sacred bull
The Minotaur: Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete - Entrance of the bulls and the sacred bull
The Minotaur: Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete - Dance of the bulls and Pasiphae with the sacred bull
The Minotaur: Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete - Interlude - Pasiphae's heartbeat becomes the pounding of hammers used in building the labyrinth
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Building the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur who destroys men
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Entrance of King Minos
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Selection of Greek Victims to be sent into the labyrinth
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Ariadne, princess of Crete, dances with Theseus, a Greek victim
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Greek victims are driven into the labyrinth
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Theseus' farewell to Ariadne as he enters the labyrinth
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Ariadne unwinds her thread as Theseus, entering the labyrinth, pulls the thread after him (The Minotaur)
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Theseus fights and kills the Minotaur (as his movements are transmitted to Ariadne who is holding the other end of the thread)
Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Ariadne rewinds the thread to lead Theseus out of the labyrinth
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - The thread breaks - Ariadne is greatly dismayed
The Minotaur: Scene II: Before the Labyrinth - Theseus and some of the Greeks emerge from the labyrinth and rejoice
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Dust of Snow
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Piano Sonata: I. Maestoso
Piano Sonata: II. Andante

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Astonishing.......2001-05-27

AMAZING recording of an AMAZING composition! Must have for contemporary fans

Elliott Carter: Orchestral Songs; Complete Choral Music

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A perfect example of Carter's underrated early work.

Elliott Carter: Orchestral Songs; Complete Choral Music

Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
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Release Date: 1994-06-13

Tracks:

Warble For Lilac-Time
Voyage
Three Poems of Robert Frost: Dust of Snow
Three Poems of Robert Frost: The Rose Family
Three Poems of Robert Frost: The Line-Gang
Tarantella
Emblems
The Harmony of Morning
Heart Not So Heavy As Mine
Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
To Music
The Defense Or Corinth

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A perfect example of Carter's underrated early work........1999-01-01

The pieces contained on this disc may well be among the most underrated in 20th Century American music. While the sound and performances on this disc leave a bit to be desired (when will Dawn Upshaw record the brilliant "Warble for Lilac Time" or "Voyage"?) this is still an entirely worthwile disc in that it contains nearly all of Carter's early vocal music. In addition, these are the arrangements for large ensembles. Recordings of some of these works arranged for soloist and piano are available, but the orchestral versions are more effective.

It is hard to understand why these pieces continue to be so little-known. They are very accessible, easily describe as beautiful--words not often associated with Carter's post-1948 output. Carter's early style more closely approximates Barber, or the neo-romanticism of Stravinsky than the starkly dissonant, incredibly complex music most listeners think of now as typical Carter. The intricacy of Carter's writing is still what sets it apart, though. This collection's most straightforwardly lyrical selection, "Voyage", is far more tightly woven, and less obvious than, say, Barber's "Knoxville:Summer of 1915". "Three Poems of Robert Frost" makes fresh, daring use of the guitar with soprano and orchestra. "Musicians Wrestle Everywhere" and "To Music" are masterworks for unaccompanied mixed choir. All the pieces mentioned thus far deserve a place in the standard repertoire of ensembles capable of playing them.

Whatever Carter's reasons for taking on the dramatic stylistic change that started with 1948's "Sonata for Cello and Piano" (which has produced plenty of great music), even Carter's own doubts about the worthiness of some of his early music will surely be overcome as audiences recognize the young genius captured in these stunning works.

Songs of the Carter Family
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Songs of the Carter Family
Rick Carey , Thel , and Paul Lester & String
Manufacturer: Axis
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004SZOM
Release Date: 2000-04-24

Tracks:

When The Roses Bloom In Dixiel
Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
Longing For Old Virginia
Wildwood Flower
My Clinch Mountain Home
Worried Man Blues
Solid Gone
Dixie Darling
A Faded Coat Of Blue
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
My Home's Across The Blue Ridg
Keep On The Sunnyside

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HOW I LIKE THIS CD

Cowboy Songs
Wilf Carter
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ASIN: B000024SRE
Release Date: 1997-06-18

Tracks:

My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby
The Capture Of Albert Johnson
The Hobo's Blues
Twilight On The Prairie
The Roundup In The Fall
A Cowboy's Best Friend Is His Pony
He Rode The Strawberry Roan
Little Silver Haired Sweetheart Of Mine
Take Me Back To Old Montana
Sway Back Pinto Pete
The Yodelling Trailrider
Cowboy Don't Forget Your Mother
Cowboy Blues
The Smoke Went Up The Chimney Just The Same
Moonlight Prison Blues
Prairie Blues
Down The Old Cattle Trail
I Miss My Swiss
The Cowboy's High Toned Dance
The Hobo's Dream Of Heaven
My Little Swiss And Me
Lover's Lullaby Yodel

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Awaiting The Chair
The Life And Death Of John Dillinger
The Cowhand's Guiding Star
Hobo's Song Of The Mounties
By The Silvery Moonlight Trail
The Dying Mother's Prayer
I Long For Old Wyoming
How My Yodeling Days Began
I'm Hittin' The Trail
Lonesome For My Baby Tonight
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Sundown Blues
Cowboy Lullaby
Yodelling Hillbilly
Two-Gun Cowboy
Hillbilly Valley
Returning To My Old Prairie Home
Pete Knight, The King Of The Cowboys
Cowboy's Mother
Calgary Roundup
Trail To Home Sweet Home
My Blues Have Turned To Sunshine
Dear Old Daddy Of Mine
My Little Grey Haired Mother In The West
A Little Log Shack I Can Always Call My Home

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Rescue From The Moose River Gold Mine
Keep Smiling Old Pal
Don't Let Me Down Old Pal
Won't You Be The Same Old Pal
The Last Ride Down Lariat Trail
Rose Of My Heart
Memories Of My Grey Haired Mother In The West
Broken Down Cowboy
That Tumbledown Shack By The Trail
Covered Wagon Headed West
Midnight, The Unconquered Outlaw
The Fate Of Old Strawberry Road
The Cowboy's Wedding In May
Sweetheart Of My Childhood Days
Ridin' A Maverick
There'll Be No Blues Up Yonder
Goodbye Little Pal Of My Dreams
I Loved Her Till She Done Me Wrong
Under The Light Of The Texas Moon
I'm Still Waiting For You
Longing For My Mississippi Home
Old Alberta Plains
The Cowboy's Heavenly Dream
My Old Montana Home (My Old Montana Blues)
Why Did I Ever Start Roaming/Roaming My Whole Life Away

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The Hobo's Yodel
The Yodelling Cowgirl
The Fate Of Sunset Trail
Prairie Sunset
I Just Can't Forget You Old Pal
Roundup Time In Heaven
Put My Little Shoes Away
When The Bright Prairie Moon Is Rolling By
Roll On Dreamy Texas Moon
The Old Barn Dance
Dreamy Prairie Moon
Roundup Time In Sunny Old Alberta
Roll Along Moonlight Yodel
My Faithful Pinto Pal
The Preacher And The Cowboy
When The Sun Says Goodnight To The Prairie
Where Is My Boy Tonight
There's A Loveknot In My Lariat
My Little Yoho Lady
How My Yodelling Days Began
Answer To 'My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby'
The Hindenburg Disaster

Tracks:

Pete Knight's Last Ride
I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine
Everybody's Been Some Mother's Darling
You'll Always Be Mine In My Dreams
Dusty Trails
By The Grave Of Nobody's Darling
What A Friend We Have In Mother
Martins And McCoys/Nobody's Darling But Mine/Yodelling Hillbilly
The Little Red Patch On The Seat Of My Trousers
Golden Memories Of Mother And Dad
My Honeymoon Bridge Broke Down
Down The Yodelling Trail At Twilight
I'm Only A Dude In Cowboy Clothes
My Lulu
Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy
I'm Hittin' The Trail
The Little Red Patch On The Seat Of My Trousers
We'll Meet Again In Peaceful Valley
My Brown Eyed Prairie Rose
I'll Meet You At The Roundup In The Spring
Dawn On The Prairie
My Yodelling Sweetheart
Yodelling Memories
Cowboy's Airplane Ride
Memories Of My Little Old Log Shack
My Last Yodel Song

Tracks:

My Yodelling Days Are Through
Headin' For That Land Of Gold
Wilf Carter Blues
Golden Lariat
A Cowboy Who Never Returned
When It's Twilight Over Texas
My Only Memories Of You
When I Say Hello To The Rockies
When I Bid The Prairie Goodbye
My Dreams Came True
You Left Your Brand On My Heart
Yodelling Love Call
It Makes No Difference Now
What Difference Does It Make?
Answer To It Makes No Difference Now
Roll Along Kentucky Moon
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues/Birmingham Jail/Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy
Red River Valley Blues
When The White Azales Start Blooming
My Ramblin' Days Are Through
I Still Think Of You, Sweet Nellie Dean
He Left The One Who Loved Him For Another
When It's Roll-Call In The Bunk House
My True And Earnest Prayer
Beautiful Girl Of The Prairie
It's All Over Now

Tracks:

Rattlin' Cannonball
My Old Canadian Home
I'll Get Mine Bye And Bye
Dad's Little Texas Lad
Thinking
What A Wonderful Mother Of Mine
You Are My Sunshine
My Texas Sweetheart
Echoing Hills Yodel Back To Me
You Were With Me In The Waltz Of My Dreams
When That Somebody Else Were You
My Missoula Valley Moon
Old Chuck Wagon Days
It's A Cowboy's Night To howl
Back Ridin' Old Trails Again
Let's Go Back To The Bible
Why Should I Feel Sorry For You Now
I Bought A Rock For A Rocky Mountain Gal
It's Great To Be Back In The Saddle Again
If You Don't Really Care

Tracks:

Why Did We Ever Part?
La Verne, My Brown Eyed Rose
The Last Letter
Ride For The Open Range
Call Of The Range
Streamlined Yodel Song
My Old Lasso Is Headed Straight For You
Memories That Never Die
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
The Prisoner's Song
I May Be Wrong
Old Buddies
Sweetheart's Farewell
Sittin' By The Old Corral
I'll Always Keep Smiling For You
That First Love Of Mine
Waiting For A Train
West Of Rainbow Trail
Yodelling My Babies To Sleep
Just One More Ride
Rescue From The Moose River Goldmine (Take 2)

Customer Reviews:

HOW I LIKE THIS CD.......2002-10-13

I LOVE YOU YOUR MY HERO WHEN I LOOK AT YOUR EYES TWINKLE
INTO THE LIGHT WHEN YOU KISS ME YOUR LIPS ARE LIKE HEAVEN
OH BABY I LOVE LOVE YOU.

HOW I LIKE THIS CD.......2002-10-13

I LOVE YOU YOUR MY HERO WHEN I LOOK AT YOUR EYES TWINKLE
INTO THE LIGHT WHEN YOU KISS ME YOUR LIPS ARE LIKE HEAVEN
OH BABY I LOVE LOVE YOU.

Average customer rating:

American Song Potpourri
Kalish plays like a pig.
a beautiful rendition of 20th Century American Song

Songs of America

Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Beautiful Child Of Song
The Three Poems By Robert Frost: Dust Of Snow
The Three Poems By Robert Frost: The Rose Family
Four American Indian Songs, Op. 45, No. 4: The Moon Drops Low
Home Thoughts
White Moon
Joy
The Widow's Lament In Springtime
Three Solitary Songs: American Primitive
The Sleeper
Mutability: My Father
Nothin' But Love
I Love You Truly
Her Greatest Charm
The Junk Man
Lost
Five Songs For Contralto: Little Four Paws
Time To The Old: Dozing On The Lawn
Song (She Is Not Fair)
The All-Enduring
Lethe
Poems Of Love And The Rain: Interlude
Time, You Old Gypsy Man
Suite, Three Ladies: Grandma (Millie)
Stein Times Seven: Stein Times Seven: No. 6
Cabaret Songs: Waitin
Twelve Poems Of Emily Dickinson: There Came A Wind Like A Bugle
Sunrise, For Voice, Violin, And Piano

Customer Reviews:

American Song Potpourri.......2000-08-01

The 28 songs on this CD provide a broad spectrum of American art songs. JanDeGaetani possesses a beautiful mezzo-soprano voice and ideally expresses the proper emotions these songs require. Gilbert Kalish's piano supplies the necessary support without getting in the way of the singer. All in all, this is a good collaboration.

Kalish plays like a pig........1999-12-02

While I enjoyed De Gaetani's singing, Kalish's piano playing reminded me of a player piano.

a beautiful rendition of 20th Century American Song.......1999-06-06

This is a great album. It spans the spectrum of 20th Century American music from the tonality and romanticism of Stephen Foster to the experimentality of John Cage.

Jan DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish, with their understanding and sensitivity to the music of their time, combine to form a duo that sets the standard for interpretation of this music.

Students, professionals, and general classical music lovers will cherish this CD in their library.

If you want an introduction to American Music of this Century, this album provides the most accessible doorway to the widest array of styles I have heard.

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