Maybelle & Sarah Carter on The Johnny Cash Show

From Nov. 18, 1970, this is one of Maybelle and Sarah Carter's last public performances together. Included are "You Are My Flower" and "I'll Be Satisfied" with the host. Although originally broadcast in color, the copy of the show I have is in black and white, and for this clip it really works.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Americana
• Mother Maybelle Carter
• Sarah Carter
• You Are My Flower
• Johnny Cash
• autoharp
• Grand ol Opry
• The Carter Family

[FDosty]

Thanks for the wonderful upload. 

[abargle]

@FDosty Now THAT's the kind of feedback I like! Thanks and you're welcome!

[addisonsteele]

TuckyWHMB, aside from the fact that Sarah Carter has a perfect pitch, a solid contralto voice, and pioneered this kind of music in the absence of all the techhical advantages those who purport to be singers nowadays have, just what would your point be??

[DrVonChilla]

That was, without a doubt, one of the finest things I've ever viewed on YouTube. When June stepped in I almost fell off my chair. WOW....to have been there to see & hear those titans....!!

Thanks so much for posting this!!

[MrFisherman02]

Great musicans and true B/G- with you can1t beat this.

[shallowford]

My goodness, what a wonderful video. You made my day!

[wmoday]

Maybelle played three different styles of guitar (a fourth if you include her work on slide "Little Darling Pal of MIne"). She is most associated with the Carter Scratch as on the second song "I'll be Satisfied" (thumb picking melody two fingers with metal picks playing rhythm, the flat pick which she used on songs like "Coal Miner's Blues" or "You are My Flower", and an upward picking style as in "Cannonball Blues" similar to what you would do with a banjo (using thumb and 2 finger picks).

[whatanightmare1]

@addisonsteele Thanks for sticking up for us contraltos :~) And I agree....I just love an unadorned voice, and that's why I love the pure music of the Carters. I had professional vocal training as a young teen, as you can see some do not appreciate the purity of Mother Maybelle and Sarah, but sometimes I love to just cut loose and be "natural". Great comment from you!

[whatanightmare1]

@abargle Oh my God...how did you ever get ahold of such a gem? Thank you for sharing it with us all! 

[moproducer]

@docsavage98 Maybelle used a flatpick quite a lot. I remember seeing her using one off-and-on during a performance, and she always kept one stuck between the stings on the headstock, even in the early days.

Can you just imagine what was going through Sarah's head, sitting on stage at the Opry on national TV, with a full orchestra, JC & The Statlers behind her, having been retired from music for nearly 20 years?

[GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

These folks were doing it when NO one else was - they paved the way without a map... True pioneers and no one to follow.

Carters = National Treasures

[08071997bgp]

both women are amazing:]

[buckbuck666]

d e f i n a t i v e v e r s i o n 

[ModGirl1967]

That 2nd song is enough to convert even the most heathen! :D