Songs of the Famous Carter Family

Songs of the Famous Carter Family
Studio album by
Flatt and Scruggs
Released1961
GenreCountry
LabelColumbia

Songs of the Famous Carter Family is a studio album by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs featuring Mother Maybelle Carter and the Foggy Mountain Boys. It was released in 1961 by Columbia Records, catalog numbers CL 1664 (mono) and CS 8464 (stereo).[1]

The album was released before Billboard magazine began maintaining its Top Country Albums chart in 1964. It was part of Louise Scruggs' plan to give the group a facelift by adding older folk songs to their repertoire.[2]

AllMusic gave the album a rating of three stars. Critic Jim Smith wrote that Flatt and Scruggs "cool[ed] their famous 'overdrive' to turn in a collection of relaxed, almost dreamy adaptations of Carter tunes."[3]

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Keep on the Sunny Side" (A.P. Carter) [3:05]
  2. "Foggy Mountain Top" (A.P. Carter) 2:24]
  3. "False-Hearted Lover" (A.P. Carter, Flatt, Scruggs) [2:20]
  4. "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy" (A.P. Carter) [2:32]
  5. "You Are My Flower" (A.P. Carter) [2:42]
  6. "On the Rock Where Moses Stood" (A.P. Carter) [2:25]

Side B

  1. "Forsaken Love" (A.P. Carter) [2:24]
  2. "The Homestead on the Farm" (A.P. Carter) [2:08]
  3. "Pickin' in the Wildwood" (A.P. Carter, Flatt, Scruggs) [2:15]
  4. "Worried Man Blues" (A.P. Carter) [2:00]
  5. "The Storms Are on the Ocean" (A.P. Carter) [2:44]
  6. "Gathering Flowers from the Hillside" (A.P. Carter) [2:10]

Credits

References

  1. ^ "Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs* Featuring Mother Maybelle Carter* & The Foggy Mountain Boys – Songs Of The Famous Carter Family". Discogs. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  2. ^ Ronald D. Lankford (2005). Folk Music USA: The Changing Voice Of Protest. Schirmer Trade Books. ISBN 9780857124975.
  3. ^ "Songs of the Famous Carter Family". AllMusic. Retrieved December 18, 2020.