Mother Maybelle & Sara Carter - While The Band Plays Dixie

[MrFlatroofer]

Beautiful.

[BabyShowerStuffcom]

Awesome.. could listen to that foreever.

[Peace7909]

These Ladies were amazing! FABULOUS!

[MrFlatroofer]

Beautiful.

[1952banjo]

sooo wonderful!!

[rayhallable]

wat can you say.? 5+++

[punkrockpatti]

yeah pretty much. this is real music

[LLMorse1]

Looks like Frankenstein....don't tell ...ore I'll kill ye. Just sing.

Doesn't look like a cheerful stage to me...

[Pickinbuddy]

Some of the purest music ever played...

[kawikahob1]

Treasure!

[ufferndiawl]

how priviliged the people in the studio were, did they actually realize what they were witnessing history in the making

[whatanightmare1]

Mother Maybelle's guitar style was unique and original. She invented the "Carter Scratch" and folks have been trying to imitate it ever since. Must have been quite a thrill for these ladies to have made such a place in music history. Watching this makes me wish I could have lived back then...such a nice, simple time.

[luneda2]

My best wishes for all American soldiers serving worldwide to defend their wonderful country

[kfo9494]

I have an old 16mm projector film of this Wilburn Brothers program. (but at this time do not know where the projector is located)- It must have been made for people in nursing homes since at the end of the film it says something about wanting to thank the society of aging that made this possible.

The other song they sang was "The ship that never returned"

[Tombstone314159]

Good to see the original Carter ladies in colour. They certainly didn't loose anything over the years: superb playing and singing.

[DerSchrauber100]

I´m glad that all those nice moments are kept on video.

I like this Carter family very much.

The time goes to fast.

[fadmacat]

what beauty and class.

[wtmj100]

Wow, it must have really been something to see these two in their heyday. You can see from this video how emotive Maybelle is and Sara carries herself with such dignity. I just wish A.P. was there to sing with them.

[pyrofella]

Loved it- what a great guitar player Maybelle was...

Thanks for sharing

[shamsam4]

1927 l 5

[TheBrownTies]

those classic hamornies

[AlliGuinn]

Wow! I've never seen an autoharp like that! I want one!

[FAUSTORICCARDO]

Sorry Sara but I love Maybelle. Great duet,

Grazie countryfan

[barbj7121]

amazing i love watching this???

[betterthanbrad]

Maybelle has the most piercing eyes!!

[mrblindfreddy9999]

eat your heart out we will never ever see the like again

[CALILOU09]

I'd sure wish I could get one of these channels over here in Germany. :-(

[CALILOU09]

Great video ... which show was it taken from?

I love these ol' time country shows with the Originals.

[skeetabix36]

The Wilburn Brothers. This show is on this coming tuesday on Rural sky. If you can recieve it

[skeetabix36]

Cant stop watching this. One of the best clips of musical history on youtube!

5+++

[LHLKD]

@skeetabix36

Not only on You Tube

[buckbuck666]

great great unusual rhythm playing by  maybelle as usual

[MOLLYryaiMOON]

Oh, how nice. I like this video. Hi, Mom, if you see this, and Hi Bamerongirl4ever if you see this!

[14071902]

This is pure real country.Wonderful girls

inspire me.

Thank you for posting.5*****

[SomaLFM]

Is that an Epiphone Blackstone that Maybelle plays?

[countryfan5]

No, it's a old Gibson L5

[troy8466]

@SomaLFM

It is a 1928 Gibson L-5 F-Hole. It was last sold for $575,000 before it came to rest in the hall of fame.

[RTRDick]

@troy8466 That is merely the price, the value is inestimable. Arguably this is the most important instrument in country music. Maybelle played the same box from 1928 on. Awesome sound, powerful, melodic and intricate, Maybelle, the Dean of all country guitar players, influenced generations of pickers.

[moproducer]

@SomaLFM It's deceiving because it's a 1928 model L-5. Until 1934, the Gibson L-5 was a smaller lower bout, similar to the Epiphones that competed with it.

Maybelle's husband, Ezra "Eck" Carter bought her this instrument new for $300 after the Carter's first recording session in Bristol, VA. She played it for the rest of her life, and it now is displayed in the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville.

[wmoday]

@moproducer

Actually, Ezra purchased the 1928 L5 Gibson for Maybelle after their second recording session that took place in Camden, N.J.  Maybelle said that she used an old Stella guitar at the first recording session in Bristol (a guitar that she thought she must have given to someone in the valley), she said she borrowed a Gibson guitar (flat top as I recall) for the second session. The guitar was given to Helen by Maybelle before making its way to the Hall of fame after Helen died.

[moproducer]

@wmoday There are a variety of accounts as to when Maybelle acquired the instrument, and I'm not sure that any can be told with certainty. Maybelle left no directives about the guitar in her will, and it was held by Helen (oldest child) and passed to her family after Helen's death.

It was eventually sold out of the immediate family. Gruhn's later tracked down down the instrument. They brokered a deal to purchase it for $575,000 by an anonymous donor, and it was then given to the CM HoF.

[skeetabix36]

Id like to see the other song that they sung on this show. Im sure it was ' Little Moses '. It used to be on youtube but seems to have vanished again. If anyone out there has it please post again because it is fantastic.

Great Britain loves The Carter Family

[baasting]

Thank you for posting this video! This is just so great!

~Baasting

[skeetabix36]

Its great to see this clip back on. Thank you

[thecarters28]

this is great!!saras not playing her autoharp for once!! its sara on the guitaro! i wish they still made guitaros. but no one really bought them. thanks for reposting!.~Robert

[jnizny]

wrong! Maybelle Carter is playing her 1928 L5 guitar

[thecarters28]

i know maybelle is , i said sara was playing a guitaro

[jnizny]

incidently, I just bought a country music book from 1965 where on the back there is an advertisement that says: "Anita Carter introduces the Guitaro" with a pretty picture!

[thecarters28]

yep i wish they still made them

[frymahhide1982]

I adore these two! thank you for reposting!

[Remus820]

great job, i've missed this video very much, it vanishes from time to time, but there are still people who post it again, thank you very much

[divita711]

I believe they also sang Little Moses on the same program.. NICE job putting this up! yay!