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Bluegrass Roots-The Carter Family

In my last post, and several others, I mentioned the Carter Family as a fertile source of repertoire for bluegrass artists. Harry Smith included four Carter Family songs in his Anthology of American Folk Music and the modern anthologists included the flip sides of those songs last year on The Harry Smith B-Sides. Bluegrass musicians and many others from the Monroe Brothers to the present have recorded Carter Family songs, reinterpreting them to suit their own styles. The Carter Family is known as the “First Family of Country Music”; their songs have endured for nearly a century. This post focuses on some of the Carter Family’s songs that are well known in bluegrass and on some lesser known favorites.

The Carter Family of Mace’s Springs in southwestern Virginia consisted of Sara Carter, who sang most of the leads in the group, and played the autoharp, Alvin Pleasant (“A.P.”) Carter, Sara’s husband (they divorced in 1936), who wrote or reworked or found much of the Carter repertoire and “bassed in” occasionally

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Early Years

Maybelle Addington was born on May 10, 1909, in the Copper Creek community near Nickelsville, in Scott County. One of ten children of Hugh Jack Addington and Margaret Elizabeth Kilgore Addington, she learned a variety of traditional Appalachian songs and tunes from her banjo-playing mother as well as from siblings, relatives, and neighbors. Performing as a child at social gatherings with her family’s informal band, Addington sang and played the banjo and autoharp, although by her teenage years she had adopted the guitar as her primary instrument. Her style of playing, modeled loosely on old-time banjo techniques, required plucking the melody on the bass strings while strumming the rhythm on the high strings and became so influential among later guitar players that it was dubbed the “Carter lick.”

The Carter Family

One of the people with whom Addington performed regularly when young was her older first cousin Sara Dougherty, who lived with Addington’s aunt after her own mother died and who in June 1915 married A. P. Carter. On March 12, 1926

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Wildwood Flower

American song

For the June Carter Cash album, see Wildwood Flower (album). For the Jim Stafford song that uses the term, see Wildwood Weed.

"Wildwood Flower" (or "The Wildwood Flower") is an American song, best known through performances and recordings by the Carter Family. It is a folk song, cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 757.

History

"Wildwood Flower" is a variant of the song "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets",^[1] published in 1860 by composer Joseph Philbrick Webster, who wrote the music, with lyrics attributed to Maud Irving. Other versions of the song have evolved, including "The Pale Amaranthus" (collected in Kentucky and North Carolina, reported in 1911),^[2] "Raven Black Hair" and "The Pale Wildwood Flower" (collected 1915–1919), and "The Frail Wildwood Flower".^[3]

The original Carter Family first recorded "Wildwood Flower" in 1928 on the Victor label. Maybelle Carter leads a rendition of the song on the 1972 album Will the Circle be Unbroken, and frequently performed the song in concert with Jo