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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelBear Family Records (Germany)
UPC4000127158659
eBay Product ID (ePID)19050200028
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2000
GenreInternational
TypeBox Set
ArtistThe Carter Family
Release TitleIn the Shadow of Clinch Mountain [Box]
Additional Product Features
DistributionNavarre
Number of Discs9
Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
ReviewsNo Depression (11-12/00, pp.102-3) - "...It is nigh on impossible to find recorded music as simple, clear, and enjoyable, yet also so historically rich. Play loud." Mojo (Publisher) (2/01, p.95) - "...Historical reissues don't come any better than this..."
Additional informationIN THE SHADOW OF CLINCH MOUNTAIN contains The Carter Family's complete recorded works for Victor, ARC, Decca, APS, Columbia and Bluebird Records, as well as interviews with group members. It is packaged with a hardcover book. Track listing continued: Disc 10: 1938-1940: Bring Back My Boy; It Is Better Farther On; Charlie And Nellie; Cuban Soldier; Heart That Was Broken For Me; You're Nothing More To Me; Stern Old Bachelor; Little Joe; Reckless Motorman; You Denied Your Love; Oh Take Me Back; You Are My Flower; Who's That Knocking At My Window; They Call Her Mother; Coal Miner's Blues; Young Freda Bolt; Little Poplar Log House On The Hill; The Dying Mother; Buddies In The Saddle; Heaven's Radio; Beautiful Home; There'll Be No Distinction There; Give Him One More As He Goes; Lonesome For You Darling; Blackie's Gunman; You've Got To Righten That Wrong; Meeting In The Air; My Home Among The Hills. Disc 11: 1940- : Black Jack David; Look Away From The Cross; We Shall Rise; I Found You Among The Roses; Bear Creek Blues; I'll Never Forsake You; Beautiful Isle O'er The See; It's A Long Long Road To Travel Alone; Why Do You Cry Little Darling; You Tied A Love Knot In My Heart; Lonesome Homesick Blues; Dark And Stormy Weather; In The Valley Of The Shenandoah; Girl On The Greenbriar Shore; Something's Got A Hold Of Me; Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room; Keep On The Firing Line; Waves On The Sea; Rambling Boy; You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down; Why There's A Tear In My Eye; Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family; Sinking In The Lonesome Sea; Lonesome Valley; Cannon Ball Blues; Worried Man Blues; Single Girl, Married Girl. Disc 12: INTERVIEW: Sara & Maybelle Carter Interview, April 24, 1963; Ship That Never Returned, The; Jesse James; I Was Born 4000 Years Ago; I'm Leaving You; Medley {a}: Re-Autoharp/Fingerpicking/Allie Lee Intro; Her Favorite Guitar Pickers; First Grand Old Opry Appearance, The; How The Maybelle Style Developed; Thank You's From Musicians; Do You Still Have Your Original Guitar?; Autoharp Discussion, An; Wildwood Flower Discussion, The; Floyd Cramer Reference, The; Medley {b}: Kids Dig That Style, The/College Audience, The; How Many Songs Did You Record In Your Career?; Early Recording And Radio Background, The; Early Record Sales; Discussions About A.P. And Sara Carter. It seems simple enough: Find every single recording by the first family of American country music and put 'em in a big box with a killer hardcover book full of essays and pictures and intricate track notation, right? Wrong. While it's true that Germany's Bear Family label produces box sets that virtually put every other company -- especially those in America -- to shame, it's the fanatical attention to detail and aesthetics that makes these sets so necessary. In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain is a case in point, for it contains virtually every recording done by the Carter Family for every label they recorded for. No one else, not even Rounder with its exhaustive but slipshod re