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Carter's family legacies are well-known, both as a daughter of the legendary Carter clan, and as the mother of Carlene Carter, step-mother of Rosanne Cash, and of course, as the wife of Johnny Cash. Her duets with Cash still turn up now and again on radio and compilation CDs, but her lengthy career as part of the Carter Family's second edition (which was comprised of June, her sisters, and her mother Maybelle), as well as her solo work, have long been overshadowed. This 2-CD career retrospective certainly helps set the record straight, covering everything from her earlier recordings with the original Carter Family in 1939, through her last solo LP, 2003's Grammy™ winning "Wildwood Flower." The picture that emerges is of a very talented singer whose comedic flair became a distinguishing trademark among the distinguished company of her family. Carter Cash's career started early, as exemplified by a pair of 1939 radio transcriptions of a 10-year old singing the Carter family classic "Keep on the Sunny Side" and Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susannah." As she grows, she clowns with Homer & Jethro on a parody of "Baby, It's Cold Outside," sings from the A.P. Carter songbook with her mother and sisters, and duets with both her first husband Carl Smith, and her second, Johnny Cash. Highlights include the Carter Family's sisterly harmonies on "Ring of Fire," Johnny Cash's resonant baritone underlining Maybelle and her daughters on "Keep on the Sunny Side," and a trio of duets with Cash that crackle with the electricity of their relationship. Anthologist Gregg Geller has tracked down key singles from the early-50s through the mid-70s, including the socially acute 1971 original "A Good Man." Also included are Carter Cash's first solo album, 1975's "Appalachian Pride," and a pair of tracks from her later solo albums, 1999's "Press On" and 2003's swan-song, "Wildwood Flower." Though there's only one previously unreleased track (1975's "Song to John"), the scarcity of all of this material in reissue effectively makes a great deal of this set equivalent to unreleased. This is a long overdue look at one of the Carter Family's second generation of musical legends: a daughter, a mother, a wife, a singer, and a star. [©2006 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]Read full review
I really love listening to this cd. It covers a lot of ground when June Carter Cash sang with her sister, and Johnny Cash. I think this is the best cd I can find in regarding her life she shared with her music. I know she can rest in piece, and I hope she is in Heaven. I highly regard this cd as her best. robertkowalski2009
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this was a gift for my brother. He really likes the (old) songs and the music and listens to the cd's often. Just what he wanted.
