Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
The Carter Family
The Decca Sessions Vol.II
(Catfish, 2002)
Clean-cut trio from Clinch Mountain, Virginia, inventing country music as she is spoken.
By June 1937, when this second Decca session took place, country music's first family were playing together but not staying together, since one-time gospel baritone A.P. Carter and his harmonising, autoharp-twangling wife were estranged and the latter was soon to end up with A.P.'s cousin, the inaptly-named Coy. You wouldn't know it from the moralistic tone of the set (characterised by an imperious Hold Fast To The Right and Never Let The Devil Get The Upper Hand Of You) as deep-voiced, unsentimental Sara and feisty, guitar-picking sister-in-law Maybelle ennumerate the wiles of Satan while their protagonists drown, fall under trains and otherwise expire in a Nick-Cave-goes-Appalachian grand guignol. Maybe not your first Carter purchase, since the tunes recorded for Victor between 1928 and 1935 (Wabash Cannonball et al) are marginally superior, but this – and its more romance-orientated predecessor volume – shouldn't be far off.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 06/08/2008
Further Listening
The Carter Family – The Best Of The Carter Family (Performance, 2005)
Various Artists – Goodbye Babylon (Dust To Digital, 2003)
Jimmie Rodgers – The Essential (RCA, 1997)
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