River Of Jordan - The Carter Family

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baasting

15 жыл бұрын

River of Jordan-
Original Carter Family

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@gerardocarmona1758 22 күн бұрын

Good night wow another great song from the carter family Tuesday 11:59pm 02/07/2024

@muffs55mercury61 5 жыл бұрын

Really takes a person back to 1928. Love it! The melodies of their older songs is great.

@plasteredbastard 4 жыл бұрын

A near religious experience when THESE voices join together. Soul feels exalted.

@zaphyra- Жыл бұрын

john lennon sniffing coke

@lilydale8906 5 жыл бұрын

The Carters are the best.

@deanhoward4128 4 ай бұрын

I still love these older hymns!& Ive been to the jordan!

@davidcunningham4424 10 жыл бұрын

Love A.p coming in with the hallelujah shout

@TheShafenator1 13 жыл бұрын

Simple and honest. The way music should be.

@DanDDirges 9 жыл бұрын

Simply doesn't get much better than this!

@1gnore_me. 2 жыл бұрын

can't believe these songs are almost 100 years old now

@HYPONEX73 14 жыл бұрын

I AM GOING TO SIT DOWN WITH MY JESUS SOME OF THESE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@martaacosta4415 10 ай бұрын

Me too!

@hazensweeney5633 4 жыл бұрын

The Carter scratch adds to the perfect harmony !

@coyotesong 9 жыл бұрын

as has been noted, simple and honest. Beautiful sounds of these melodic voices.

@havokbaphomet666 8 жыл бұрын

Loved it, one can feel the southern at "jerd'n" cheers from brazil

@Crlpope 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you from North Carolina USA

@sandyjo55 14 жыл бұрын

Love this song!

@tinamorgan7266 6 жыл бұрын

These folks gone on before are such a blessing to me all these yrs later sitting here at my computer. I wish people today were like they were in these days. Everyone was poor and in the same boaat and loved one another. Gosh what a blessing. Thank you Lord for these ones that are with you now.

@MetricSuperstar 4 жыл бұрын

Well don't worry the great equaliser Covid19 is here

@jibletjibletstein8040 7 ай бұрын

@@MetricSuperstarnope lol

@dannyneilmadsen 12 жыл бұрын

I never tire of listening to the original Carter Family. The sound reaches deep. The pictures are great, but sad in a way. AP was estranged from Sara at the time and it shows in the pictures. As I recall the story, they never got back together.

@martaacosta4415 10 ай бұрын

I could never understand why they didn’t get back together. I know Sara was involved with A.P.’s cousin, Coy Bays, but there was a period of several years when Sara was living at her parents’, Coy Bays was living in California with his family, and A.P. was living with his and Sara’s children. A.P. And Sara were only a few miles from each other in Virginia, and attempts were made to reconcile. Why it didn’t happen, either no one knew or those who knew didn’t want to tell. In any case, Sara did marry Coy Bays after being divorced from A.P. for several years.

@DanMadsen 10 ай бұрын

I was very sad. AP was an akward guy but without his ambition the group would have never happened. The story is he fell in love with Sara's voice before he first laid eyes on her. @@martaacosta4415

@fscofi 10 жыл бұрын

Maybelle played a C chord formation and moved the capo around to play in different keys. A and A flat were common on many songs because it fit Sara's vocal range.

@tomadams9172 6 жыл бұрын

Love the way The Carter Family can take a very basic run-of-the-mill 12-bar blues and tweak it one way or another to make it unique and special. This one is a fine example of that. If I'm not mistaken it was not written by A.P., but is one they learned from a contemporary whose name I can't remember so its hard to say if the "original" added the fifth measure (which transformed it into a "13-bar blues") to get the Hallelujah in there, or whether the Carters introduced that. Same with the short E-minor chord at the end of the third line. But another example of how they modify the basic blues form to great effect is Bear Creek Blues which was written by A.P. and which on the instrumental breaks they play as a straightforward 12-bar blues, but on the vocals they make the first line 5 bars instead of 4, then the same with the second line and the third. I really like the way John Prine covers this song, and introduces electric guitar which I imagine some people will say is blasphemous, but I think the Carter Family would approve. Of course, he also changes the line "One drink of that water, you'll be drinkin' it all the time" to "One drink of that water, you'll stay drunk all the time". That they might not approve of !!

@MRQ45LIMO 11 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the Wilkins Family. Love ya Pastor Chris Wilkins Your a mighty Texas Preacher...

@pearlieford9692 2 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful guitar playing!

@user-fr5zb3dw9q 14 күн бұрын

I'm gonna sit down by my Jesus some of these days!!

@vampmoon 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this wonderful playlist

@maleychris 5 жыл бұрын

i love this music,,,,,, the Carters are the real shit,,,,

@richardsleep5242 3 жыл бұрын

Richard Sleep I first heard this on a thrift store-bought 78 rpm shellac disc (cost 25 cents). It was 1969 and it sounded timeless then and now in 2020, it still sounds timeless as it did in 1930's. The Carter Family is timeless and for all times. Class is class.

@carmenhardy2629 2 жыл бұрын

Do you still have the shellac one?

@richardsleep5242 2 жыл бұрын

@@carmenhardy2629 Greetings to Carmen. Sold my 78's via auction fliers of Joel Slotnikoff in St.LouisCity twenty years ago. He took 20% and I received almost exactly $20.00 per disc. Had most on cassette tape, alas, no tape player anymore. I had 78's of blues, R&B vocal groups, Hillbilly Boogie,Bluegrass, Classic Country, Cajun and Western Swings, original rock'n'roll/rockabilly. Played all of these styles with talented Ozark musicians, 1971 to 2010 at picnics, school houses, parties, etc. and the sacred singing at churches & the other places. Played with men and women as good as anyone recording professionally on my vocals, harmony to my singing and guitar playing, plus steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, string bass fiddle, mandolin, piano and accordian. I am 79 now, a widower (high school sweetheart & wife of 54 years died in 2015) sold the homestead, divided the money between my four children and live in St.Louis City in a large room in my oldest daughter's house in St. Louis City. Until the pandemic, I got around all over the city exploring.Now as a prime target of the virus due to advanced age, I am pretty much out of the picture and I don't like to drive so much anymore in traffic (lots of crazy drivers out on the highway). By the way, shellac records are extremely brittle and break very easily. Best wishes to you. RJS

@richardsleep5242 2 жыл бұрын

@@carmenhardy2629 Greetings to Carmen. I had a small collection of 78 rpm records. Started in 1969 with Married Girl Single Girl by the Carter Family. I found the records at 2nd hand stores, used furniture stores, and some at a radio station in West Plains, Mo. and some at "First Monday" 13 acre flea market in Weatherford, Texas. 78 rpm shellac records are bulky, big to store, and extremely brittle and breakable; however, they held recordings back then not available in any other format and 78 rpm records because of their size and speed and groove depth have the greatest fidelity/sound reproduction of all. I collected blues, hillbilly boogie, cajun, r&b vocal groups, western swing, 1920's jazz, recordings. I sold them through a consignment auction some years ago. After the 20% taken by the consignment fee, I made almost exactly $20.00 per record. I had taped them on cassette, but no longer have a way to play the tapes. sincerely, RJS

@richardsleep5242 2 жыл бұрын

@@carmenhardy2629 I sold my 78's years ago through an auction service. 78's had great sound due to the size/speed of rotation and groove depth. Highly breakable though. RJS

@buddyzroadie 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Looking at some of your videos, I just had to subscribe!

@richardsleep5242 3 жыл бұрын

Pure sweet, spring mountain water of singing from a time in a less lost America. Now in 2021, it is a horror show of sin and perversion, and rapidly getting worse. Thank you for this post.

@SeekingHisWill78 2 жыл бұрын

LOL Sure, Jan.

@jibletjibletstein8040 7 ай бұрын

@@SeekingHisWill78I mean society is incredibly degenerate now regardless of religion

@jibletjibletstein8040 7 ай бұрын

@@SeekingHisWill78dudes cutting their John’s of and it being normalized to kids. I’m sure you’re in lala land tho

@SeekingHisWill78 7 ай бұрын

@@jibletjibletstein8040 I'm not in lala land; I'm just not a transphobe. FYI, I'm a cis-gender male, I just try to be a decent human and support everyone. Live and let live. :-)

@fiyufii8160 6 ай бұрын

wasnt this the time period when choir boys were castrated to preserve their high pitched voices@@jibletjibletstein8040

@TheShafenator1 14 жыл бұрын

I love that old Viginia accent!

@kengeorge1923 6 жыл бұрын

It is, as you say, old Virginia accent, but its more than that; it is so typical word pronunciation for all of Southern Appallacia.

@Josh-le6lu 2 жыл бұрын

I don't care if there are no cities of gold as long as I am joined by God, family and aquaintence.

@baasting 15 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's correct! It was taken for the "Life" by Eric Schaal! Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it :) Baasting

@lewistyler462 4 жыл бұрын

Hallelujah!

@stayc96 12 жыл бұрын

That was cool to hear!!

@baasting 12 жыл бұрын

@Pickinbuddy Because of the attack on the Pearl Harbor the Life Magazine decided not to publish the story and the pictures. But if I'm not mistaken, the Life Magazine published an article in 1991 "The Ballad of A. P. Carter", and I think they also published those pictures. Anyway, the pictures were also uploaded to the internet, so everybody could see them.

@raphaelc3517 8 жыл бұрын

@ Dullborn, docsavage: if you want to play this song like the carter you have to tune your guitar 1/2 tone lower and play the C position (it's a B song). But in addition you have to pay attention to the rhythmic asymmetry at the 3rd verse (and the first verse too, when they sing "oh yes").

@RobynRiley 6 жыл бұрын

I love this channel

@RobynRiley 5 жыл бұрын

I still love this channel

@billdarby1 2 жыл бұрын

This song rocks!!

@rayunseitig6367 6 жыл бұрын

eating at the welcome table, don't complain a bout not sitting at the head seat.

@johnnyhall3942 5 ай бұрын

I concur.

@evanschroeder9740 Жыл бұрын

Found an original copy of this 78 today at an antique store. Score!

@bettystephenson7094 4 жыл бұрын

great

@januthin 10 жыл бұрын

Jordan = Juhr-done in Clinch Mountain English.

@direfranchement 9 жыл бұрын

januthin The pronunciation isn't unique to that region.

@Clutnuckle 5 жыл бұрын

it's JERRRRRRRRRRRDAWN

@Crlpope 5 жыл бұрын

@@direfranchement Yes even in the Hills of NC.

@docsavage98 12 жыл бұрын

@Dullborn sounds about like capoed around 4 or 5....she often did songs capoed on 5 and played the C chord formations

@skeetabix36 15 жыл бұрын

You've got some awesome pictures. I think they were taken for 'Life' magazine, but the issue they were supposed to be in was cancelled because of World War 2 started. Fantastic 5+

@PigglePigSwillbucket 6 жыл бұрын

Same tune as Virginia Bootleggers (Red Fox Chasers) - love how the old groups did different songs using the same tune

@tomgreene8480 8 жыл бұрын

Great music ...great pictures ...thanks for upload....where were these folk from??

@BorgMuffinMan 8 жыл бұрын

+Tom Greene If I remember correctly, they're from poor valley in VIrginia. Someone came around that area scouting for talent, and that's when the first recordings of The Carter Family and Jimmie Rogers are from

@tomgreene8480 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reply ...great folk!

@ismokeweed420 8 жыл бұрын

I think I know why the town is called "Jarden" in The Leftovers now...

@blazkelbl 8 жыл бұрын

+ismokeweed420 Now I know too.

@petergoruk9477 7 жыл бұрын

Blaz Kelbl q

@lizardpeoplepoetry 6 жыл бұрын

this sounds deceptively simple, but those time signature changes are real tricky if you're not used to them.

@nancywarren 5 жыл бұрын

I always wondered if that was intentional or if they just sang it however they felt it.

@samuelm.hodnettii.2768 3 жыл бұрын

simplicity sold from day one ask my father, silver , never did I know as I shut down by those pagans, until Holy Ghost helped , with the plant to heal.

@Dullborn 12 жыл бұрын

@docsavage98 Thanks, Doc

@waterskippers 14 жыл бұрын

Interesting accent.

@TheSteamtramman 10 жыл бұрын

Is that a dialect variant on the pronunciation of "Jordan" ? In the UK we say Jawden.

@Gamolmann 4 жыл бұрын

Southern Appalachian, and even within that context certain pronunciation of words can vary depending on smaller regions within the larger region.

@Pickinbuddy 12 жыл бұрын

@baasting When did Life Magazine finally release these photos?

@jamesanthony8438 4 жыл бұрын

Someone mentioned above that Life released the photos in 1991.

@Dullborn 12 жыл бұрын

Anyone know how Maybelle tuned her guitar for this one...is it standard tuning capoed up or an open?? Thanks..

@genethemachine7169 4 жыл бұрын

On this session, Maybelle tuned a half tone low and used C position

@ajaxjs 10 жыл бұрын

They took our jerbs!

@gabinorodriguez4517 2 жыл бұрын

@cerealpeer Жыл бұрын

and as i sat there i had a kind of wishy washy sense of play come over me. i felt like i had urinated in the public pool. i was five years old again. but i dried off sure enough, and im still a sinmer.