Johnny Cash - Tears In The Holston River

Johnny Cash sings "Tears In The Holson River" with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from the album "The Legend" (2005)
"Mother Maybelle" Carter (May 10, 1909 - October 23, 1978) was an American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.
Perhaps the most remarkable of Maybelle's many talents was her skill as a guitarist. She revolutionized the instrument's role by developing a style in which she played melody lines on the bass strings with her thumb while rhythmically strumming with her fingers. Her innovative technique, to this day known as the Carter Scratch, influenced the guitar's shift from rhythm to lead instrument.
She was widely respected and loved by the Grand Ole Opry community of the early 1950s, and was popularly known as "Mother Maybelle." Maybelle and her daughters toured during the 1950s and 1960s as "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters", frequently touring with Johnny Cash (her son-in-law from 1968 on); Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters were regular featured performers on Cash's weekly network variety show from 1969-71. Maybelle also briefly toured with former Carter Family member, Sara Carter, during the 1960s folk music craze.
Maybelle Carter died in 1978 after a few years of poor health, and was interred in Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Sara Carter (July 21, 1898 January 8, 1979) was an American Country music musician. Known for her deep and distinctive singing voice, she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s.
Sara married A. P. Carter on June 18, 1915, but they were later divorced in 1939.
In 1927, she and A.P. began performing as the Carter Family, perhaps the first commercial rural Country music group. They were joined by her cousin, Maybelle, who was married to A.P.'s brother, Ezra Carter. She later remarried to Coy Bays, A.P.'s first cousin, and moved to California in 1943, and the group disbanded. In the 1960s, she reunited with Maybelle and briefly toured during the folk music craze of the time.
Carter was inducted as part of The Carter Family in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970 along with Bill Monroe. In 1993, her image appeared on a U.S. postage stamp honoring the Carter Family. In 2001 she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor

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[Leecanuck1]

They should know that they are still making us shed tears

What a great loss ... but only for a while

We will see them all again

Thanks to whoever posted this beautiful song tribute to the two great and beautiful ladies of country music

[ItsWaldo]

@Leecanuck1 Glad you liked it.....have a great day.

[heatmanable]

loved Johny cash all my life no one like him

[ItsWaldo]

@heatmanable Yes.....Johnny was a great artist and personality.

Thanks for your comment.

[gloyahoo]

Beautiful song - I am sure there were tears when they died.

My mother and father enjoyed the Carter family and their singing.

Thank you for this upload

Thumbs up

@ countrynirish Thank you for the share.

[ItsWaldo]

@gloyahoo Thanks for the comment. Glad to hear you like it.

[rynosoft]

Thanks for posting this. I've loved this song since I bought the third volume of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", which is the original album from whence this came.

[janbrad1]

Thank you so much for the history of Mother Maybelle - I live in East Tennessee so I feel a close attachment to the song - and the river.

[locklin011]

what a nice and sentimental song.

[Eyewash03]

Are those picture of the river taken in Mendota?

[heatmanable]

@ItsWaldo

Never did get to see him, but I will see him in the Kingdom ( -:

[MrJimdug]

class song ,what a tribute