The Carter Family- Hello Stranger

The Original Carter Family- Hello Stranger

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Music

Tags:

• Carter
• Family
• country
• Maybelle

[liza8423]

I hear 2 voices here....Sara Carter if im not mistaken and who is the other lady singer?

[baasting]

@liza8423 The other voice is Maybelle Carter.

[Ridger1978]

Great job on this video! A few pictures I don't think I have seen before. I'll be watching for more- 5*****

[baasting]

Thanks :) I'll try to make more this kind of videos, and I'll try to find more pictures!

Baasting

[daidli]

Awesome, thx for adding this!!!

[FDosty]

One of my favorite "ambiguous" songs ever. Plus that unique Maybelle Carter scratch picking.

[Zorro007ism]

What is so hard to figure out? It's straightforward country singing of the highest caliber. It tells a story plain and simple. There's nothing incoherent about it. It teaches biblical, old country moral values.As far as their voice quality it isn't meant to impress as so much music following them seems to be. It was genuine, melodic and soothing. At least this is my opinion.

[Zorro007ism]

What is so hard to figure out? It's straightforward country singing of the highest caliber. It tells a story plain and simple. There's nothing incoherent about it. It teaches biblical, old country moral values.

[TheLimberlostGirl]

@buckbuck666 You are one stupid jackass, saying that about the Carter ladies, you don't know one thing about them, and still you run your mouth about them. Perhaps the women in your life, your mother, your wife, are loose women, who anyone could bang, and that is why you would think that about these ladies. Your heroes, - you don't denigrate heroes.

[FDosty]

Think the ambiguity in the lyrics is part of what makes the song great. It challenges your understanding. I don't think "coherency" is necessary at all to appreciate a song. That is part of the almost mystical beauty of art. I also disagree with the statement that the Carter Family was really not that good "by modern standards". Their music did what music was designed to do. If it doesn't make the grade "by modern standards" then I disagree with modern standards.

[Ardalla555]

@FDosty You can't understand it because the lyrics they sing don't make much sense overall. The gender changes from verse to verse and it's sung with no emotion whatsoever. Later versions of the song are much better and more coherent. The Carter Family was really not that good by modern standards. It's not just the technology was primitive; they just didn't sing that well.

[FDosty]

My daughter and I listened to this song over and over again a few years ago on a ride in my truck. Together we tried to analyze it but never really figured it out. We didn't figure it out, but boy did we enjoy it. I miss those times when this Dad had his daughter to share this kind of stuff together.

[parkany31]

Én Emmilou Harristól ismertem meg,tisztelet a Carter famíliának!

[1039sflem]

I love this song. One of my earliest memories is hearing this song on my grandpa's record player. That must have been around 1966 and this song was and oldie even way back then.