The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower

[agingstoner]

Wow...a million and a half views. There may be hope for us yet.

[psandoval318]

So much to learn from these lovely ladies. Thanks for posting

[elijahlusk96]

but guys, just stop arguing and listen to the music. everyone has an opinion. its their right. just listen.

[elijahlusk96]

For some reason tonight, I have been feeling the need to reconnect to my Kentucky roots, I listen to metal, play that type of guitar, but tonight, after many years I want to forget all the anger and strong emotions and just hear something for the soul, the last time I've felt this way was when my dad died two years ago, its nice to know I'm always welcome to come back to this music and feel my heritage.

[6828Lu]

Wonderful! thank you.

[vikingrich7]

For you "Morons" out there its "Good Clean Country Music" not like the 'Noisy Satanic Music" you get today!!

[mayadogful]

@ luv2ride4726 You must hold a PhD in American Sociological studies

[bolddubhglas]

This is so good to see the 2nd generation Carter family-Mother Maybelle and daughters Anita, june and Helen. Does any one know what year this was recorded? I also love the original Carter Family version from 1927 with Sarah and A.P. Carter.

[SgtThidar]

Cool

[mylani100]

junie was always beautiful...

[chinnmusic]

Thanks for sharing this

[ryderwayland]

“We know, too, that Mayweather has no promoter. He negotiates by himself. So if the fight won’t be realized, it’s no longer because of me,” Pacquiao said.

[HAKATAJAJA]

Thank you for your precious images

[ryderwayland]

they could have been those youtube sensations if they are still around.

[nancejo]

What is Maybelles picking technique on this song called?

[yenbadcito]

@nancejo trying

[brianbellin]

@nancejo The Carter scratch

[Icosohedron]

@nancejo It is called the "Carter Scratch"

[99necron99]

@nancejo Not surprisingly, it is called "Carter Style."

[Strawberry7Lynn]

Full credit to the cameraman for filming that fingerpicking

[watertreesable]

thanks for posting it , luv these old songs, maybe cause i am old and these song, were playing at all the old barn dances

[mythicky]

This is one of the most incredible songs ever written.

[CuteCatFaith]

Thanks. This was one of the first songs I learned on the guitar. I was just recently told there were lyrics to this, so I visited here. Wow, sad song! A lot of these old ones are. Thank you. I knew Harry Smith, who turned me on to The Carter Family. I have some clips up about knowing him. Thanks again.

[ppetal1]

Beautiful

[bWitched86]

51 people are outright stupid.

[xlb6939]

absolute gem only improvement would be to have a banjo in the band

[HappyChristian101]

Misterwrh: Thanks for your respose and helping me out with this. It was just the past few months that I really got to listening to this group. There are several good clips on them. They are very good. County music has gone to the dogs the last 10 years or so. Give me Roger MIller, Ernest Tubb, Patsy Cline, Jime Reeves, Tom T. Hall, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins etc just to name few. I don't listen to any of the artists now days. Very seldom to I listen to a country radio station any more.

[HappyChristian101]

happyadar; I agree with your comment about treasures on u-tube. Not trying change the subject, but if your a fan of Laurel and Hardy, there is a great clip about 30 min long where they are on "This is your Life: In the box above type in "Laurel and Hardy Interview (1954)

Any fans of them will love this clip.

[PickerNation]

wow just got lost ....eyes closed and sitting back listening to this gem,... thanks

[TheDavelah]

I was raised in the hills of Eastren KY this is our music not nashville jazz

[HappyChristian101]

Can someone tell us which daughter is which? I think Junes is one sitting down playing that stringed instrument. Is that an autoharp? I do know that all of the daughters are now deceased.

[Misterwrh]

@HappyChristian101 Yes, June is on the left with her autoharp. Then Mother Maybelle, Anita and finally Helen on the right, I believe.

[RDYS]

Thanks ... Glad that there are some folks that have and share American History with all of us.

[DIXIECONFEDERATEDAWG]

HOTTIES......

[luv2ride4726]

thanx supernovascotiagirl i'll check it out , also go to wsm.com monday through fri nights 7 to midnight and check out eddie stubbs show he plays all the old classics and alot that you never hear

[greengun3374]

Carter scratch not clawhammer. She is picking at the same time she is doing rhythm. It's incredible.

[tradebaker]

this is country mussic as i remember it growing up

[mougsy1]

Love the clawhammer on the guitar. I do miss when it was real country.

[luv2ride4726]

it does'nt get any better then this,the garbage they call country today is just what it is GARBAGE. can anyone tell me why they dont have country classic stations that play 50's and 60's? thats all they play on the rock oldies stations but the country classic stations they play mostly 80's 90's a few 70's and a couple of token 60's you know the ones they always play, i think the whole country music industry is a disgrace today.

[SuperNovascotiagirl]

@luv2ride4726 If you go on the FX101.9 website at seven oclock on saturday nights, they play all the old songs, there are alot from the 60's and 70's and some from the 50's, I have even heard this song played a couple times. The staition doesn't play classic country all the time, only on saturday nights, but it's better then nothing.

[slh1948]

@luv2ride4726 : "i think the whole country music industry is a disgrace today."

Oh, agreed! I'm PARTICULARLY tired of country songs that are about country singers singing country songs. That's what happens when a whole genre sticks its only microphone up its own collective ass.

[RyeEncoke]

@luv2ride4726 SO right...I used to watch CMT country music channel, they would have shows like classic country or old time country...and would play Faith Hill, or Hank Williams Jr....that is not classic, George Jones, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, Jean Shepherd, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr, those are classics....and the only thing worth listening to in country music. Thankfully I had a bunch of old records and tapes converted to dvd.

[orehorst]

@luv2ride4726

Unfortunately, but in reality, country music lags behind pop music...by about 50 years. I don't care for current country music. It's rock n' roll with a fiddle or steel guitar added...maybe. Time marches on and with it comes some longing for previous times.

[POBulkhead]

@orehorst ~It's what used to be called southern rock.

[orehorst]

@POBulkhead @luv2ride4726 I've listened to the bluegrass channel on XM radio. It's good and one of the genres that stick with the tried and true. Try it and I believe you'll be pleased.

[occams99]

@POBulkhead Don't put a black eye on Southern rock like that. Southern rock was superior. My Pop, a lifelong fan and singer of country music among other genres had a better term for the stuff they push on you today. He called them "shampoo cowboys" and would go on to talk about how they would be lucky enough just to get out alive from some of the old gin mills that oiled the gears of real country music. I wish I had some of his rants recorded. I'd put them up on youtube and watch the shit fly.

[xXbeccalaXx]

@luv2ride4726 They actually do! AM 1250, me andd my daddy listen to it.(:

[LisaAnthonyisHis]

Gotta Love it....Thanks

[ThePurplerobe]

Wonderful. Very nice and refreshing.

[Ivanatis]

this is so beautiful makes me cry

[guitardanne951]

that lady knows how to play the guitar! :)

[ladycharsw]

Like this song, and Keep on the Sunnyside!

[Addiskrilla]

is this from the early 60's?

[Ducksoup67]

Look at June... forlorn on the autoharp. She had the last laugh. : )

[edejan]

Beautiful!

[sidDkid87]

Seriously, what would this world be like without music?

[Labaron26]

God bless them....all gone now...Mother Maybelle, Helen, Anne, and who can forget June.......wife of Johnny Cash.

[Humpfester]

The Martha White Hour.

[rock612on]

check out that carter scratch. no one plays like that anymore



[TheDonpedrossy]

Can someone please tell me the line-up in this gorgeous song?

tnx

[beforsey]

There are many musicians through history that many would call under-rated. But Mother Maybele has to be the worst case of under-ratedness. She was a genius and most people don't know who she was!

[nigelmccluskey]

Nothing better than the dexterity of a womens fingers xxx!!!

[kwtfradio]

Cannot hear country music like this anymore, I do not believe there really is country music anymore these days. Carters were one of the greatest of all. When the Grand Ole Opry left the Ryman for Opry Land USA it was the beginning of the end of country music like I remember and loved as a child during the 1950s and 1960s. RIP.

[TheWildhound]

wonderful track, bring me tears in my eyes.

[myepiphone]

Just great,and I love Mom's guitar playing.......and her guitar !

[Leecanuck1]

All Carter's music is available at Ernest Tubbs Music shop , Nashville, Tennessee,

These are the Gems in the crown of life

[captsouth]

This is the first thing I want to hear as I enter the afterlife. For this is the voice of angels.

[TheKenaJohnson]

LOVE IT!!!



[Teddyb1939]

How on this or any other earth can 49 people dislike this magic track, The Carters were a wonderful group!!

[LES6723]

@Teddyb1939 i agree

[brandtz7]

Thumbs up if CNN's Top 100 songs brought you here

[carlperkins57]

I love this, thanks for posting. one question though, what is a "Mirtle"? As in the 3rd line "and the mirtles so bright as the emerald due"

Help anyone?

[quakerninja]

@carlperkins57 It's Myrtle flowers. has many meanings. It's a kind of green hence the emerald part, It also means weddings.

[carlperkins57]

@quakerninja Thanks I see spelt with a Y! What about the line "the pale and the leader and eyes look like blue", Am I mis-hearing?

[jljones36420]

@carlperkins57 It's correct words should be "The pale Amarillo and the lilacs light blue". Many of these words are misunderstood, or maybe she didn't know the actual words, she sang it like tshe heard it.

[blueberries4ever]

Emmylou Harris and Iris Dement do a rockin' version of this, too.

[TheRdyoung]

amazing

[Ishanaroya]

If you don't love this song, you are a soulless automaton...

[peasblossom1973]

@Ishanaroya

Lololol!!!

[jleegivens]

The Carter Family =Country Music With Heart & Soul!

[happyadar]

Treasures like this are the reason I love YouTube.

[scales1020]

@happyadar I agree! great post!

[phishhed44]

@happyadar same here.  ;D

[kamcnatt]

@happyadar so right n true u r

[smartfly1]

The song was first recorded by the Carter Family in 1928 on the Victor label. WOW

[peasblossom1973]

Daddy used to listen to the Grand 'Ole Opry every Tuesday night on the radio, and loved The Carter Family.

[sedera12]

This is the best music ever! I listen to this every day for years and years..

[briandrbys]

I used to have this track on an old album called, Will the circle be unbroken. It was all acoustic with people like Doc Watson, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and loads of others on it. I have been trying for years and years to get a copy as the other one was stolen. Any help please? If you can find some of the tracks off it, listen to Soldiers Joy, and Dark as a Dungeon. Classics brilliant. Thanks for posting.

[bustedbenz]

@briandrbys If you can tolerate a CD instead of an LP, they are available brand new and are still being made/sold.

[briandrbys]

@bustedbenz Thanks for that. I've managed to find one on Ebay, and am waiting for it to arrive. Cannt wait.

[james5353]

why doesn't more music sound like this?

[dmoor10]

Whats wrong with the neck of Maybelle's Guitar?

[southernsong]

@dmoor10 ... SHE'S USING A CAPO!

[dmoor10]

@dmoor10 no. at 0:24 the neck looks bent or curved back.

[rickcuster]

@dmoor10 I believe it's just the video. It looks like it might have been recorded from a tv screen. You can see the curve in the screen. Look at the wide shots and it looks straight.

[mountainspring1703]

Always beautiful!!!! Nothing like family harmony and of course that Carter guitar style...can't beat it anywhere!!

[ChristianYounts]

What time of guitar is Maybelle playing?

[tedwhitus]

These folks are a national treasure. Love'em all.

[HopeForaLostCause]

How country music is ment to be, now modern day country is disgrace really.

[rvz77]

@HopeForaLostCause today's country has abandoned 'country' music. Please!, put the 'o' back in Cuntry! :)

[vinnothelizard]

check out the boswell sisters .. class

[petereuropa]

Nice to hear. Show the pattern , if possible.

[Felix1049]

@petereuropa visit site suite101.com/content/fingerpic­king-guitar-for-intermediate-g­uitarists-a113064

good explanation of the style

[petereuropa]

@Felix1049 Thankn you.

[Felix1049]

@petereuropa visit site suite101.com/content/fingerpic­king-guitar-for-intermediate-g­uitarists-a113064

good explanation of the style

[LES6723]

try that chet adkins!

[antzzy1]

@LES6723 Actually Chet can play this tune...and very well too!

[LES6723]

THAT is PICKIN

[dmann84ng]

how could anybody dislike this!

[petereuropa]

...and M. Carter invented a new way of picking the guitar - as far as I know.

Anyway in some guitar learning books it's written Carter picking. True?

[Felix1049]

@petereuropa absolutely true. maybelle created a style of finger picking wherein the melody s played on the bass strings while rhythm strumming continues on the treble strings. it's pretty much a staple for all fingerpick style acoustical guitar players. i've been using the technique for years.

[mrsofte100]

Great!! Simple, melodic, heartfelt, what music should be! No nonsense, just a fantastic song by a fantastic group of real singers and musicians.

[CJTELE]

This all seems weird to me All the talking going on Is anyone paying attention These women represent a cornerstone of American culture check ou Hymnals check out A.P. Carter check ou county music this is the foundation you are looking at This is historic and should be preserved as a National Treasure

[GriffonKeeper]

God bless the Carter Family!

[MsDogben]

God bless you for posting this. I am in heaven... Really the tears are flowing!

[redmuddr]

They might be ignorant and uncultured, as you seem to think. But, they are self taught on their musical abilities and had more talent than you have in your little finger.

[wmoday]

It would be an error to say that the Carters wouldn't work in todays music. Consider the incredible popularity of the sound track for "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" which out sold every CD when it came out and earned the Grammy Award for "Album of the Year".  Many of the songs had either been recorded by the Original Carter Family or as in the case of "In the Highway" was written by Maybelle Carter, or in the style of the Carter Family, there is a market for their music. Sadly more isn't produced.

[JKL7239]

@wmoday

There's a huge amount being produced today. Sadly, virtually no modern artists playing this style have been able to break into the mainstream.

[classiccntry]

This is A Number One, Top of the Line, Natural, Nostalgic, what music is all about!!!! Other than that I don't like it. Ha!

[TheSarahRose131313]

they never would of thought june would be married to JOHNNY CASH AND SINGING WITH HIM.

[HoboGus]

That's June Cater on the auto harp in the lower left.

[scottseelman]

Great talent.

[gliddenlake]

what instrument is the lady on the bottom left playing?

[monchandclaxbach]

@gliddenlake auto harp

[Atamaiidotcom]

@gliddenlake June Carter is playing the autoharp

[avoiceofmyown100]

oh poor june! its like they put her in the corner lol she had such grace & class! every time i see the carter women perform i think of the scene in walk the line where she's tellin johnny cash she had to be funny to fit in. she was so humble & beautiful with the sweetest smile & a firecracker up her sleeve! (no offense to the carter family)

[signorgelato]

I disagree...they're just classic and so tight and talented. Maybelle's one of the greatest of guitarists, so was Helen, and June was a greatr singer and comedienne. And the younger sister had strikingly beautiful vocals. Who on the country scene today bnesides, like Emmylou, can rival them? And Emmylou has always paid Maybelle homage. Country music today is soulless and has no charm like the artists of the 50's through the 70's had. Too bad for us all...

[gompth1966]

Marvelous. Genuine, pure, unassisted talent has a very distinctive feel to it.

[ladylemonae]

is June there?

[mannymmv]

Im just wondering how this was saved. I mean VCR's... were'nt invented till the 1960's, or later.  I'm glad you did though . This is an important part of our Musical Heritage

[JOHNNYFREEDOMdaREBEL]

42 "DISLIKES" MEANS 42 TONE-DEAF PEOPLE

ITS NOT THEIR FAULT FOLKS, THEY WOULDN´T

KNOW A BEAUTIFUL TONE FROM A SCREECH !

MAYBE I´M WRONG ? SO FOR HEAVEN´S SAKE,

SOMEBODY UPLOAD UP A VIDEO WITH A CAT

SCREECHING & I BET 42 PEOPLE WOULD

PRESS "LIKE" IN A FLASH !

[JOHNNYFREEDOMdaREBEL]

IF YOU DON´T LIKE THE CARTERS, YOU DON´T LIKE REAL MUSIC.

[Deckeon74]

Mother Maybelle is actually a subtle amazing guitar player, picking and rhythm at the same time.

[yippitydodah]

this is what it is all about - honest music, from your heart..

[schnibsey]

What an amazing guitar technique it dont get much better than this amazing!

[yippitydodah]

@schnibsey

yes. incredible

[Felix1049]

with the right material, talent will always win out....write yourself a song as good as this and have some degree of talent and I'd guarantee you'd make it

[thequietus]

@Felix1049

Ok: I-V-I-V-I-IV-I-V

[TomThumbsBlues1965]

if you dislike this, go the fuck away

[DuskY1991]

@TomThumbsBlues1965 I can't even imagine it's possible to dislike this...

[latenightpilgrim]

@TomThumbsBlues1965 Bloody right!!

[ElComadreja777]

@TomThumbsBlues1965 Couldn't agree more.

[crt4me57]

@TomThumbsBlues1965

Do you actually eat with that mouth?

[TomThumbsBlues1965]

@crt4me57 i sure do

[zoeykyle999]

the anthem of country music

[pebbles606]

I really like this song but there was one with this same scene that Anita sang I'll Be All Smiles Tonight. Can't find it any more wish I could I really like that song...

[frwgt350net]

Helen has such beautiful wide set eyes and a beautiful smile to go with them....

[brian2010lal]

lol..family singing indeed !!!

[louisvilleguitarguy]

I'm 15 and this is one of my favorite songs. I wish more people today still respected country music.....

[Atamaiidotcom]

The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower

[bigbangpegasus45]

@Atamaiidotcom are you in this?

[Atamaiidotcom]

@bigbangpegasus45 hah! I am not THAT old!!! Ok but yes I was born before Color TV

[bigbangpegasus45]

@Atamaiidotcom Wait Then Why Do You Have The Same Last Name As Them?

[Atamaiidotcom]

@bigbangpegasus45 ooh maybe you got me there...

[bigbangpegasus45]

@Atamaiidotcom Yeah

[laddiemcmasters]

This is Absolutely Wonderful!

[Bigneebug]

awesome- that's history there.

[steeldragon0085]

What year was this performance recorded?

[RadioRuderham]

@DeafTuber Anita is the Girl on your right, June Carter is playing the Autoharp seated at the front.

[DeafTuber]

Wow! How do you find videos this old? There were no VCR's in the 60's no?

Anyway, THANK YOU for posting!! Never heard of these women, until today, but am glad I happened upon this Carter family! Anyone know which one is Anita.

[RadioRuderham]

Thank you a thousand times a nd a thousdand times more

I've never seen this, but simply love The Carter Family.

It's odd but I got into country via Waylon Jennings and am still a huge fan of him

This simply brings me to tears.

No gimmicks no auto tune just honest to good talent

Well done.

[commissionershuffler]

Belle, grandi voci e musica. .!!

[sportsaddict1942]

Hardworking people but the stress from a life during the great depression shows...Always loved June who later married Johnny Cash.

[MerseySky]

This is the music of a people who had poignant and sometimes heartbreaking stories to tell. They didn't use daddy's credit card to go and buy expensive, custom made instruments. They made do with what they had and sang wherever they could. If they made a nickel for their troubles, they thought themselves well-paid and continued to display their home grown talent until something prevented them from continuing.

[YellowLaLas]

Lol its funny how people like to dis on other people's music...each to their own...

anyway...

I love this

[doctor106]

anyone who dislikes this lacks a soul. Compare the creativity, skill, and all around talent of just this one performance against anything you see today. What the losers on American Idol. They couldn't play a mandolin, banjo, violin, or wahsboard. They didn;t need to show body parts or be vulgar to make wonderul inspiring music.

[viddrome]

Wow - great we have this kinoscope to document the Carter's performance. Thanks for posting.

[srvfan454]

39 dislikes, mtv morons that came here by mistake I guess.

[pontello3]

is funny cause' they were looking like shop assistant or bureau employed but not as ..a band as we know today! :)

but they were good!