The Essential Carter Family

Tracks

Disc 1

1. 1Keep On The Sunny Side2:51
2. 2The Storms Are On the Ocean2:50
3. 3Single Girl, Married Girl2:47
4. 4Little Darling, Pal of Mine3:16
5. 5Anchored In Love2:46
6. 6John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man2:56
7. 7Wildwood Flower3:10
8. 8I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes3:01
9. 9My Clinch Mountain Home3:08
10. 10Lula Walls2:50
11. 11Diamonds In the Rough3:21
12. 12Engine One-Forty-Three3:16
13. 13The Foggy Mountain Top2:57
14. 14The Homestead On the Farm2:44
15. 15Motherless Children3:36
16. 16Wabash Cannonball2:57
17. 17Jimmie Brown the Newsboy2:33
18. 18Worried Man Blues2:43
19. 19The Cannon-Ball2:59
20. 20Lonesome Valley2:40

Disc 2

1. 1On the Rock Where Moses Stood3:09
2. 2Lonesome for You2:48
3. 3Can't Feel at Home2:54
4. 4Where We'll Never Grow Old3:04
5. 5The Winding Stream3:04
6. 6I Never Will Marry2:36
7. 7Gold Watch and Chain3:33
8. 8It'll Aggravate Your Soul3:27
9. 9I'll Be All Smiles Tonight3:15
10. 10The East Virginia Blues2:45
11. 11I'm Working On a Building2:42
12. 12Sad and Lonesome Day2:55
13. 13Gospel Ship2:56
14. 14There'll Be No Distinction There2:50
15. 15Black Jack David2:39
16. 16Bear Creek Blues2:50
17. 17You've Got to Righten That Wrong2:53
18. 18Fifty Miles of Elbow Room2:48
19. 19Keep on the Firing Line3:02
20. 20Can the Circle Be Unbroken3:07

40 tracks, 1 h 59 min.

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• Music of the United States

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