It's 2024 and Mother Maybelle is my most admired woman 100 years. Legend.

I've listened to them for decades, and still I tend to forget how wonderfully strong Maybelle's guitar is.

Part of American Folk song history and wonderfully interpreted. Straight from the heart.

This is gorgeous...and if you never understood how much Elvis Presley changed music...this song by itself will tell you a lot.

Excellent! This is the seed that sprouted music that had timeless lyrics and made performers of later generations look good when better audio devices were the norm. If the Carter family and some of the others greats of that day would have had the benefit of the new audio recording equipment we have nowadays, well... you know..

this song has helped me through great pain. im glad its back up, thank you for posting this

awesome,love it....

beautiful pics, too.

great song. super graphics, photo's new to me. thank you.

I'm glad you liked it! Yes, this song was up before, but suddenly it was gone! So i uploaded it :)

Part 2 Does the chair in your parlor seem empty and bare? Do you miss me and wish I was there? Is your heart filled with pain? Shall I come back again? Tell me, darling, are you lonesome tonight? I have counted the days, I've counted the nights I've counted the months and the years I have counted on you since we drifted apart Tell me, darling, are you lonesome tonight?

Maybelle's guitar and Sarah voice with that twang.

Lyrics to Are You Lonesome Tonight: Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me I say? Are you sorry we drifted apart? Does your memories cling to that bright summer day When I kissed you and called you sweetheart? Like the rose on the vine I am clinging to you As I did when we drifted apart I am wishing you back to that little shack Where I kissed you and called you sweetheart

This is good stuff.Thanks

This is actually the original. It was written by A.P. Carter.

this world would be alot better if they were all still here like chett Atkins and june Helen and Anita now we have crappy music like rap and ungodly music back then everybody played and listened to gospel :( I guess those days are over

GRD.

I don't like country music at all, but I have to confess that this is the most original cover version of the so famous song "Are You Lonesome Tonight". Thanks a lot for sharing :)

music changes with the times meaning recording equipment-economy-transportation availability- communication -wars and more.no time in the last hundred years did men leave there wifes an children like in the 1930 s.after it was over thay called it the great depression and that kind of thing might be coming to america again it's hard not to have the blues in those kind of times. artist sing about the time thay live in.

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all the other versions you've heard are the covers of this song. Including Elvis. This is the version he copied.

Sara was Hot!!

This is quite different to the later versions of this song by Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Jerry Lee and Al Jolson.

But why would anyone want to "put on" voices like this? This was 30 years before Presley's hit. Styles change and this is something which was true for a lot of people at the time (and years later). It influenced the guys who influenced Presley, like Hank Williams etc.

not a "cover" of the Elvis hit! song done in the 20's through 40's which is 20 to 40 years BEFORE Elvis! Al JOLSON did it to.

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"Good singing" is in itself absolutely meaningless. Passion, power and charisma comes first. A.P. had the passion part at least.