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Thread #20251   Message #209886
Posted By: Mark Clark
10-Apr-00 - 06:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Some Carter Family songs.
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Some Carter Family songs.
Jim,

Let me add my thanks for the CF tunes. They are each my favorite song as are all CF numbers. I've been meaning to add a few myself but wanted to get the ABC or MIDItext or whatever together first.

For a real treat, get hold of "Jealous Hearted Blues" by Ma Rainey. I don't know but I'm guessing that her recording preceded the Carters'. It's funny to hear her swinging lowdown hot blues rendition and then listen to the Carters' squared-off version sounding so painfully... uh, white. I still love to hear both versions.

I may be wrong but I think the second verse of "You Are My Flower" begins: The *air* is just as pure. I know it sounds like they say hour but that's just their accents. In "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone" they go out of their way to make the word poor sound like purr as in "purr unworthy grave."

Thanks again,

- Mark