Synopses & Reviews
This deluxe book features 32 songs from The Royal Family of Country Music, plus an introduction & family history, rare photos, a chronological discography, and analysis of their technique and music. Songs include: Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow * Can the Circle Be Unbroken * Cannonball (Cannonball Blues) * Coal Miner's Blues * Engine One-Forty-Three * Foggy Mountain Top * Hello Stranger * John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man * Little Joe (Darling Little Joe) * Lonesome Valley * Wabash Cannonball * Wildwood Flower * and more. Includes a brief bio of Carter Family discoverer Ralph Peer.
Description
Includes discography. Includes bibliographical references (p. 128).
Table of Contents
Amber tresses -- Bury me under the weeping willow -- Cannonball : Cannonball blues -- Can the circle be unbroken -- Coal miner's blues -- East Virginia blues -- Engine one-forty-three -- Foggy mountain top -- Forsaken love -- Gathering flowers from the hillside -- Hello stranger -- Homestead on the farm -- I have no one to love me : but a sailor on the deep blue sea -- I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes -- Jimmie Brown the newsboy -- John Hardy was a desparate little man -- Keep on the sunny side -- Little darling pal of mine -- Little Joe : darling little Joe -- Little Moses -- Lonesome for you -- Lonesome valley -- Lulu Walls -- My Dixie darling : Dixie darling -- On the rock where Moses stood -- Storms are in the ocean -- Wabash cannonball -- When the springtime come again -- Wildwood flower -- Winding stream -- Worried man fblues -- You are my flower.