DESCRIPTION:
Recorded 14 February 1929 - (0900 - 1200) & (1300 - 1540) - Victor Studio, Trinity Baptist Church, 114N. 5th St., Camden, NJ -- A.P. Carter (Vcl),Sara Carter (Vcl/Autoharp) Maybelle Carter (Vcl/Guitar).

Track No.1 SWEET FERN
A.P. (Vcl Duet),Sara (Vcl Solo/Duet/Yodelling/Autoharp),
Maybelle (Guitar).

(1876- Song by Thomas Westendorf & George Pensley Titled "Sweet Bird"...According to Charles Wolfe "Sweet Fern" was a Song A.P. found on his Collecting Trips to the East Tennessee Hills...Recorded 1928 by Orville Reed & Richard Harold)

Adapted by A.P. Carter 1929

(3.08) Track No.2 MY CLINCH MOUNTAIN HOME
A.P. (Vcl Solo/Duet),Sara (Vcl Solo/Duet/Yodelling/Autoharp)
Maybelle (Steel Guitar)

(Circa 1911- Reported to be the first Song A.P. wrote: Wanting to earn enough money to buy himself a piece of land,A.P. left his home in 1911 and set out for Richmond INDIANA (as his father had done) to work on the railroad but came down with Typhoid Fever and quickly returned home...Family members recall that he wrote his first Song while he rode the train back to Virginia...The Chorus And Sentiment are based on James A. Bland's 1878 Song
"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny"...The Verse is the Melody of the "Battleship of Maine")

(6.19) Track No.3 GOD GAVE NOAH THE RAINBOW SIGN
A.P. (Vcl),Sara (Vcl/Autoharp),Maybelle (Vcl/Guitar)

(1800's - Early 1900's Traditional African-American Spiritual usually named "I Got A Home In The Rock" from Leslie Riddle & Pauline Gray)

Adapted by A.P. Carter 1929

(9.22) Track No.4 I'M THINKING TONIGHT OF MY BLUE EYES
A.P. (Vcl Duet),Sara (Vcl Solo/Duet/Autoharp),Maybelle (Guitar)

(1800's - Traditional Song arranged by the Carter Family...Other Names include "In The Shadow Of The Pines" and "Broken Ties" Used for Roy Acuff's "Great Speckled Bird" and Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"...Previously Recorded by Welby Toomey as "Thrills I Can't Forget"...Emry Arthur as "I Can Never Forget" and The Stoneman Family as "Broken Hearted Lover"...Adapted by A.P.Carter 1929)




(12.25) Track No.5 LITTLE MOSES
A.P. (Vcl Duet),Sara (Vcl Solo/Duet/Autoharp),Maybelle (Guitar)

(Circa 1871 - Traditional Gospel Ballad about Story of Moses harmonized by G.R. Street...Collected by Belden 1905)

Adapted by A.P. Carter 1929

(15.38) Track No.6 LULU WALL
A.P. (Vcl),Sara (Vcl Autoharp),Maybelle (Vcl/Guitar)

(1800's - January 1888 Meade...Wehman's Collection of Songs...Unknown Author from 1800's...Found on a Song Collecting Trip in the Hills of Virginia...Recorded by Walter Morris 1926 & Bascom Lamar Lunsford 1928)

Adapted by A. P. Carter 1929

(18.30) Track No.7 THE GRAVE ON THE GREEN HILLSIDE
A.P. (Vcl Duet),Sara (Vcl Solo/Duet/Autoharp),Maybelle (Guitar)

(1875 Gospel Song by Aldine Kieffer)

Adapted by A.P. Carter 1929


Alvin Pleasant (AP) Delaney Carter (1891 - 1960)
Sara Dougherty Carter (1898 - 1979)
Maybelle Addington Carter (1909 - 1978)

Maybelle was married to A.P.'s Brother EZRA CARTER who was Sara's 1st COUSIN...All three were Born & Raised in South Western Virginia

The day before the 1st Recording Session (August 1 1927) AP persuaded Sara & Maybelle to make the trip from Maces Spring VA to BRISTOL TN to Audition for Record Producer RALPH PEER who was seeking new talent.....The SESSIONS now called the BRISTOL SESSIONS included performances by JIMMIE RODGERS & 17 other Acts...They Received $50 for each song they Recorded plus half a cent Royalty on every copy sold of each song they Registered as "COPYRIGHT"...By the end of 1930 they had sold 300,000 Records in the USA....To expand his repertoire in the early 1930's AP befriended LESLIE RIDDLE a black guitar player from Kingsport TN who accompanied AP on his song Collecting trips


Elected to the COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME in 1970