Can the Circle Be Unbroken

by The Carter Family

Can the Circle Be Unbroken cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 2000
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:12
  • Community rating: 4.3/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Randall Martin, Sara Carter, remastered by, Howard Fritzson, A. P. Carter, Maybelle Carter, Ed Kahn, Lawrence Cohn

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This twenty-track collection gathers the recordings A.P., Sara and Maybelle Carter made over three days in May for ARC, and closes with three later sides from a subsequent session. Sara sings lead and plays autoharp while Maybelle's guitar carries the melody on the bass strings and the rhythm on the treble strings, the technique known as the Carter scratch. Its title song, A.P.'s reworking of the hymn 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken?', appears alongside 'Wildwood Flower', 'Worried Man Blues' and 'Keep on the Sunny Side'.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, acoustic, storytelling, folk, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Can the Circle Be Unbroken (3:07)
  2. Lulu Walls (2:51)
  3. My Clinch Mountain Home (2:52)
  4. Wildwood Flower (3:15)
  5. Worried Man Blues (2:58)
  6. Keep On the Sunny Side (2:49)
  7. Gospel Ship (2:56)
  8. My Texas Girl (3:03)
  9. Sinking In The Lonesome Sea (3:14)
  10. Cannon Ball Blues (2:52)
  11. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes (2:52)
  12. River of Jordan (2:43)
  13. The Storms Are On the Ocean (with Mother Maybelle Carter) (3:04)
  14. On the Rock Where Moses Stood (3:02)
  15. The Little Black Train (2:52)
  16. Single Girl, Married Girl (3:02)
  17. Kissing Is a Crime (2:33)
  18. Blackie's Gunman (2:41)
  19. My Home Among The Hills (2:38)
  20. Black Jack David (2:39)

Credits

  • A. P. Carter - arranged by, vocals, written-by
  • Nick Shaffran - consultant [american milestone series]
  • Maybelle Carter - guitar, vocals, written-by
  • John Jackson - product manager [american milestones series]
  • John Christiana - product manager [packaging manager]
  • Sara Carter - vocals, written-by
  • Howard Fritzson - art direction
  • Lawrence Cohn - compilation producer
  • Randall Martin - design
  • Ed Kahn - liner notes
  • Country Music Foundation - photography [cover]
  • Frank Driggs Collection - photography [liner]
  • Michael Ochs Archives - photography [liner]

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