I am of the same opinion.

it's those harmonies

It’s the simple, honest innocence. The world was closer to the Garden of Eden then.

B

same

I think that is what music essentialy is!

That place is the america that was taken from us.

That's a beautiful way of expressing something a lot of people, including me, feel, not only about the world of the Carter Family, but any remote place of a time long gone. Of course, there is an asterisk to those longings - we didn't experience all that was terrible about that place, wherever and whenever it was. Yet for all that, the next time I hear a Carter Family song, I'll wish I could walk the streets of Maces Springs, Va., in the 1920s and '30s - "again."

Source?

Yeah those who listen to a lot of roots music are perfectly aware of its multiracial background. From Irish fiddlers and black banjo players at the South Carolina docks to Cajun creole synthesis of zydeco. Even the 12 bar blues has roots in both The music of the British isles and black America. Really only a mystery to those with little knowledge of folk music.

Short song.

Hide me over in the Rock of Ages*

Beautiful,encouraging song. Music & vocals great.

LAUGHING THROUGH THE PAIN!!!!

God bless you friend!

Well said my Brother, well said. I enjoyed and got laugh out of your comment saying you were not sure what a far cry was. And wanted to share it with you. I was born & raised as the 10th generation of some of my genealogy lines in Wilkes County, in NW North Carolina's Brushy Mountains. The term "far cry" I can still hear and heard all of my life. It means it is not even close or cannot compare to what it is being compared to. Example is "People by a massive majority live a far cry from the world they think they live in." Only Jesus can provide sight for that and the inner peace to face what is coming. Another example is, "A great many Americans self-identify as Christian today. But when they are examined by their life & fruit it clearly shows they are a "far cry" from what a real Christian truly is. Hope that helps brother. God Bless & hello from Grayson County Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains on the NC line. - Jeremiah

And me now. Listening to this song just before WW3 and whatever is about to happen.

Animals have been fighting for territory since the beginning

maybe play now

Either that or "I don't want to set the world on fire" by the Inkspots. Both work well.

Yes, I like Alvin Pleasant's voice too. He should have sang more songs than he did.

I love him in the song "no telephone in heaven" was about his mom too. Sounded real raw and beautiful. Thanks for sharing that

I love his voice too. It’s partly because my heart hurts for him, knowing his sad fate in love, but he does have a “raw” voice, as someone said. It’s raw, authentic, trained only by the hills and hollows of his native Virginia, and it’s earthy. It also complements Sara’s voice beautifully, I think. And one more part of its charm is that he joins in with harmony or on the refrain, seemingly whenever he feels like it! I’m no musician, but I hold with the theory that if you practice a lot and become real good at what you do- whether singing, or playing an instrument, or composing and writing lyrics- you can sometimes just jump in there and rearrange on the spot, right in the middle of a performance, and it will turn out just fine.

Thank you for teaching me a new music term! Mahalo! (Uhh that’s thank you in Hawai’ian)

That's not a Dobro. She's playing slide on that Gibson in the photo.

I BELIEVE

It didn't forget, she's well known

and "hello stranger" It's a damn good song!

Amazing Woody 😍

Woody never hid where the melody for his song came from, it came from this song.

"You are my sunshine, My only sunshine..."

@sotojoe8 .......look it's a talking bag of MAGA poop

@sotojoe8 you don’t know shit about actual human history this land was never physically divided between us it is a big no no to say that this is my land because ultimately the land is and will always be the Great Spirit’s world he created for all of his Earthly creations to live in within the universe

That’s for sure! /s

The most beautiful and honest people this world had to offer

WEST VIRGINIA

Actually they got this song from the black church.

@@clarencewillingham3030 why are you coming around here making blatant lies. They wrote this from scratch - and then Woody Guthrie stole it for his Jew ballad

Ich höre sie einfach gern,auch Helen June Anita und Carlene.Mich würde intressieren ob da noch jemand weiter macht?

+josef furrer es sieht so aus als wäre Carlene die letzte...ihr Halbbruder John Carter Cash macht auch noch Musik

Never heard of Far Cry. Have no idea what those folks are talking about. I'm here for the Carter Family and the Lord.

Boomers

"Something is coming. You can feel it, can't you? You can feel that we are creeping toward the edge. I know that you are out there,and I know that you are in pain. My children I am here to tell you that suffering is a choice, and you can choose a better path. We want you. We accept you. And we will take you. Willingly or not. And some of you may fight. But in the end you will thank us.

you are my nuke

to explode whole montana

U can see we are creeping towards to th3 edge

What about mom dukes

WE MUST ATONE!

God loves you GO for him and Jesus Christ loves you and plz don’t say oh go# it’s a sin to you and Jesus Christ and god it is way better if you say oh my gosh them oh my go# but even if you say it he will still forget and forgive don’t be afraid everyone doesn’t God bless stay safe and no hate Amen👼🏻👼🏼👼🏽👼🏾👼🏿👼❤️🙇🏼‍♂️ no hate plz thanks or everybody no hate and wen you go outside pray for Elvis you can not see.

no thanks

hell no

*clapping*

But im his father...

Atsuko Kagari woe to the man who leads my flock astray, for if I am not their shepard, then I must be the wolf.

Guess they forgot to sign the back of the contract.

Yes, Woody loved his Carter Family.

Good place to hide just north of you

same lol

same

Hello Barbara, how're you doing, I hope you are doing fine. I'm David from Houston, Texas. Where are you from? You seems like a real Country girl😊🌹

You don't say?

Dakota Ayy no really? j/k but yeah he did!

Henning Andersen this song was made ten years before woody's song

Woody was commie

Why is he stupid. Guthrie was an admitted Communist.

Gamer tag on Xbox one is DressyGalaxy818

Hello , how're you doing, I hope you are doing fine. I'm David from Houston, Texas. Where are you from? You seems like a real Country girl😊🌹

@@davidpreston7819 grandpa be hitting it

He literally transcribed the exact melody, changed the lyrical content - but not even the cadence and called it his own

@@Laotzu.Goldbug not uncommon back then, or in the folk tradition. Hell, the carter family did that with a ton of their own songs, where ap would write down somebody else's song, but forget the melody, and they just set it to one they already knew.

And he would’ve gotten away with it, too if it weren’t for you meddling kids and your damn dog.

Yes WG often would just write lyrics and then look for an existing melody for their setting. The Carter family not only did the same thing with an existing melody, but also used existing lyrics from Blind Willie Davis' "Rock of Ages" to come up with "When the World's on Fire": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJ6WZNyiqby-nmQ.html

Not only that, it sounds like African gospel music.

Mac .G I actually enjoyed this kind of songs

Beautiful

Boomer

Some video games introduce them to new music like this

And what a wonderful thing that shall be

the fact that that this comment was from 4 years ago already makes me old i remember being hyped for the game

@@bluebelt6177 same

It doesn't have anything to do with WW2. It just goes to show that literally every Christian ever has thought they were living in the end times.

This song is much older than this... originally written and composed by a black man in the late 1800s

@@stevebuchanan2098 they are common chords progression used by hundreds of artist on hundreds of songs like you are my sunshine etc.Chords were invented by the ancient greeks

@@Jack-fs2im you are my sunshine, darling pal of mine and this land is your land all came after this recording.. there is written record of the man who wrote this song and all those others followed his progression including the carter family with darling pal of mine

@@stevegrmah5069 Yes I sing The worlds on fire,often.One four five chords (from ancient greek Doric or mathmstical three notes) are used commonly in medi eaval music .stay safe