the carter family - my clinch mountain home

[renlewis]

doesn't come any better

[junetune1944]

it just don`t get any better

[MrDeCorey]

Fantastic song I enjoyed listening!

[rainharper62]

I've been to carter valley & carter fold-beautiful land & beautiful people, they were just singing old songs that they knew from their area-they don't sing stuff like this anymore too much -love this

[bongojava21]

Superb. I knew country music was done for when CMT published their poll of industry people and performers in Nashville of the top 100 country songs of all time. Not one single Carter Family or Jimmy Rogers song on the list. Nothing from the people who basically invented the genre. But the Dixie Chicks were there...something not right about that...

[mayor621]

I love these old songs, The best days of country music

[bucaneromax1]

this is country music

[Ampelos69]

@bucaneromax1

Couldn't agree more, the ONLY days of country music -- later and contemporary stuff is 90% plastic, botox, collagen, and just plain mediocre. It got cut off from these wonderful, truly ancient roots...

[camaysar222]

Pure and unpretentious... the real thing.

[adhelper1]

Love this music. A.P., Sara and Maybelle's voices are what I have always called "true", nothing added to try to make it sound better. Wonderful talent, wish there was more of it around!! Most musicians you hear today sound good only in the studio, hear them in person and they just plain suck! Not the Carter's, they have a true, God given talent!!

[phrakanong]

Wow! That one gives me goosebumps.

I haven't heard it in years. This is some real down- to-earth country music.

Thank you bigjaw1.

[georgejonesfan93]

LOL I find it funny that u post this video and u dunno who A.P , but this is a great song - I love it!

[dyer47lam73]

A P Carter wrote many many what we called Southern Gospel songs today. No one has ever been able to play exactly like Maybelle. She picked with her thumb and strumbed with her other fingers. She had her own style. There is many guitar greats playing there own style. But none like Maybelle.

[Wehategod]

Sean he may not be a Great Singer but He has a nice Voice. I can Picture myself on board a Southern Passenger train heading through Virginia and this song in the Background.

[Wehategod]

Peter someone posted awhile back on here that AP wasn't such a great singer but I said he has a nice voice.

[seancoxen]

You misunderstand! I said A.P. is a great singer; he just isn't adequately credited as such.

[SettlersMuseum]

Maybelle played the guitar in the fretted Hawaiian style that was popular at the time, not the dobro.

 According to Sara Carter, A.P. wrote this song in 1911 returning from a failed trip for work in Indiana.

[fassifernit]

I think Maybelle contribution to modern guitar and bluegrass technique is highly underrated - Maybelle rocks!

[shinnytops]

This is one of my favorite Carter Family songs. The story and lyrics are great, and Mother Maybelle on a Dorbo really sets this song off.

[mikegilbo]

Love it when AP sings lead, usually you only hear him singing bass in the background.

[rambam1204]

@mikegilbo I have all nine volumes of "Their Complete Victor Recordings," and A.P. sang lead on quite a number of them—and on "Lonesome for You" (Volume 5: Sunshine in the Shadows, 1931-1932) he sang a duet with his wife. I think he sounded like a sheep.

[seancoxen]

A.P. rocks! For some reason, he has been greatly undervalued as a singer.

[bigjaw1]

Who is A.P.?

[seancoxen]

A.P. is Alvin Pleasant Carter, founder of the original Carter Family, husband of Sara and brother-in-law of Maybelle, composer of and lead singer on "My Clinch Mountain Home." Listen to this song again to hear his baritone voice. He is mostly recognized as a composer and song arranger, not as a great singer.

[rambam1204]

@bigjaw1 Alvin Pleasant Carter (1891-1960)—known as "Doc"— was Sara's husband.