Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin – Songs of the Carter Family CD

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Appleseed CD-1043.

Kate Brislin: vocals, guitar

Jody Stecher: vocals, guitar, mandolin

Larry Hanks: vocals

Suzy Thompson: vocals

1   Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbath
2   Bear Creek Blues
3   Meet Me In The Moonlight
4   Single Girl, Married Girl
5   Sow ‘Em On The Mountain
6   Dreaming Of You Darling
7   Bye And Bye
8   Motherless Children
9   Dark And Stormy Weather
10  River Of Jordan
11  Don’t Forget This Song
12  March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away

“The Carter Family were the most enigmatic performers in the early days of the country music industry. Over the years people tended to ignore the mystery in their music and concentrated instead on the folksy charm of “Wildwood Flower” or the piety of “Keep on the Sunny Side.” But on Songs of the Carter Family, Kate Brislin and Jody Stecher mostly eschew the familiar songs in favor of lesser-known but equally powerful tunes. And on songs such as “Dark and Stormy Weather,” with its “wrong” harmonies that sound so right, or “Away out on the Old Saint Sabbath,” with its haunting, ambiguous lyrics, the pair revels in the wild, barely civilized side of the Carters. Stecher and Brislin are two of the finest duet singers to emerge from the old-time music revival of the 1960s, and their sweet mountain harmonies and beautifully understated guitar picking are a fitting tribute to Sara, Maybelle, and A.P. Carter, the greatest old-time singers of them all.” –Michael Simmons