Both my parents grew up in Dungannon, Va - deepest Appalachia. My mom told me many times that the Carters would perform in places like school auditoriums during the Depression. If you didn't have the price of admission, people would bring home-canned goods, fried chicken, you name it. The Carter Family never turned anyone away. These were desperately poor times in Southwest Virginia in the 30's and 40's, so hearing the Carters play was like hearing angels sing on earth to the poor farm folk in the audience. Although my parents were very young then, they never forgot Mother Maybelle and all the rest bringing great music to their doorstep.
After playing my guitar for Mom in the senior's home, when leaving I stopped to play some Wildwood flower for an elderly lady with dementia in her wheelchair who doesn't speak anymore. To my surprise, she hummed the tune exactly and her face lit right up. Music does amazing things.
I just checked out your uncle on Wikipedia. Wow, he really had some career! The only possible answer to the question, "Who did Edenton play with?" is "Everyone. Name a star. Yep, played with 'em." And it's amazing how long he lived, especially given he contracted TB at a time when it was notoriously tough to cure. Was he a storyteller?
@@twlvhrs As a studio player he must have laid tracks for a lot of different artists albums. Did he ever do session work at the studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama?
Joe Zincan was a popular bass player in those times, as was Lightning Chance (but that’s not Lightning) If anyone has a clue as to who the Bass Player is.. please chime in
Several years ago, I drove over to Hiltons, Virginia to a small Methodist church to pay my respects to AP Carter who is buried there. These people began what is now country music. Respect ❤.
Sitting here in nostalgic tears. I am 61 years old and when I was little mom had the album with this song on it. We lived in a tiny little house in Saskatchewan and some nights mom and dad would have friends over to play guitar and sing. I grew up listening to the Carter Family and listening to it just brings back mom and her guitar. Thank you so much for posting this.
In 2012 , at my mothers funeral, my daughter got up with her guitar and dedicated this song to my mom as it was her favorite song. My daughter did an amazing job singing and playing. My mother would have been so proud 😌
GOD BLESS YOUR DAUGHTER. I am sure your Mom heard it from above. I tear up when i read this story , I think of My Mom gone since 2002 and Imiss her every day. vwj570
I am older than dirt , so I grew up with my mom and her 4 sister humming and singing the Carter songs. They were at the time , bigger than any rock star , and are still remembered as the start of real american music. I still go to Mother's grave and play tunes on my mandolin.
I found this song by accident after 40 years of trying because my daddy Played it on the harmonica when I was a little girl. I was so happy to find it! Music speaks to the heart. Thank you for sharing.
+Rick Taylor Yeah, my mom died in my arms in 2005, and I`ve never recovered. I am, however, so grateful that I had the opportunity to see her off. The last thing she saw in the world was the eyes of a person who loved her. I take some solace in this. Anyway, I`m so sorry for your loss. I still dream about my mom almost every night, and its been almost 11 years.
+Paul Snider I often dream about my Mother, too. In my dreams she is always smiling and happy. I think it's her way of letting me know she is in Heaven, and no longer in pain, as I said, you will never know pain, until your Mother dies. Be grateful you had her as long as you did.
The original Carter Family were all long dead by the time I came into this world, but there's something oddly nostalgic about their music. It's like I've been transported back to the 1920s despite having never even lived through that period.
This is maybelles spirit playing and her sister as well...only Jesus can help anyone sound this good...true talent and spiritual people who had what it took!! God Bless and hope to hear concerts when i go to Heaven!!
I don’t know much about these (the carter family) but I ain’t even lying when I say that woman is one of the best guitarists I’ve ever seen, she’s picking a melody and strumming chord at the same time!!! While singing 🤯 skill
@@jareddawson7239 yeah I know June but I didn’t really know Mother Maybelle and the others that well, I know abit more now, I only got onto the carters cus I’m a Johnny Cash fan and now I love these too.
Mother Maybelle perfected this method of strumming which was eventually called the “Carter scratch.” Her style influenced generation after generation of guitarists from all genres of music, and I’m sure she’ll continue to impact music for the rest of time!
Lots of singers have sung this classic number but this rendition is by far the definitive one. The Carter family singing their signature song, Wildwood Flower.
An old boy from Tennessee taught me how to pick this when we were deployed over seas..i had never heard it, but he told me i'd never forget it...man, was he right..changed my life..I don't let a day go by without listening to this song...It is that important ..
@@kristadrinkard7962 Do you know it all now? I just started learning it yesterday. I had a lot of trouble because of muting strings, but when I put the capo down 4 frets, the muting went away because my hand didn't need to stretch to span the frets.
In Eastern Kentucky you always learned two great songs no matter what and those song's were Johnny B. Good and the great Wildwood Flower. I play Wildwood Flower three different ways on guitar.
@@aidenelwell6308 I start over every day, like a stand-up man. So today was a good day. Greetings from Dresden. Unfortunately we learned Russian for 6 years in the east of Germany completely for free. I am sad that my english is deficient so the translator has to try. Greetings from Dresden.
I just started to learn this song on guitar. It got my curiosity, so I looked up some history on this song. I always thought the Carters were just some backward hillbillies as I never was one to listen to their music. That is my loss. I didn't realize what a genius and legend Maybelle was. I am humbled, but now I know.
I sure do miss the 70s, 80,s and 90s. The music🎺 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
I love how when they lean in to sing harmony, they are all exactly the same distance from the microphone. Family harmony, all with equal power, knowing exactly where to go. Can't get any closer than that...
My dad always said “If you can’t pick Wildwood Flower, you got no business with a guitar!” Every Saturday while mom was at work, he would play the guitar and we would “sing” Wildwood Flower was ALWAYS included (and Puff the Magic Dragon 😉) Those were the best days of my life!
I listen to every version of this song on RUclips that I can find and, still, coming back to Mother Maybelle and girls....this is the most vibrant, most intense, most beautifully and clearly picked performance...obviously the standard that no one else has been able to surpass. The Angels of American Country Music live forever!
I just love this song...my Daddy and almost all of his siblings played it...it was certainly my favorite. I'd always ask Daddy to play it for me...now it brings me to tears because it just makes me miss Daddy so very much! Hope you're playing for the angels Daddy..along with Uncle Doug and Aunt Mavis...I still love and miss you so much! Other people often point out that you weren't perfect..you were an alcoholic! But you know what...you were my Daddy and I loved you anyway. I still do! RIP Daddy, till we meet again. 🙏 ❤
She didnt write it. The song was written by a YANKEE from Manchester NH far from the south. Lyrics by an educated poet. Written in 1860s and popular on both sides during Civil War.
Mother Maybelle had to be the best female guitar player back in her days no doubt. Hell, she was better than a lot of men in those days. RIP Mother Maybelle, Helen, Junebug, and Anita.
@@Voxguitarsrock That's the same thing I say. And I try to keep it that way. I just can't begin to grasp what people even mean by "good guitar player" or how you go about ranking them. My guess is that Maybelle saw her self as a folk musician, playing the old music in her own unique and authentic way, at a time when guitars were becoming cheaper than and more available banjos, and in doing so defined the next 100 years of country music.
This is my very favorite song. My wife played the guitar and sang many nights to the same. My condolences to you poor people who gave this "thumbs down". it would be so much better if you would not indicate your musical ineptitude. It hurts the feelings of many of us.
Youtub should remove the "thumbs down" button. Any song no matter how great will always have detractors. People who like the song don't need to be annoyed needlessly.
I was BLESSED to have such GREAT music enrich my life! Grandma use to sing the Carters to me while growing up, and it was the BEST thing ever! I sure Miss her very much! RIP GRANDMA WANDA 3/1923-4/2016 Love Your Grandson Robert!
I remember music like this from when I was kid in our farming community. Local musicians played at Christmas and other holidays at our country hall. Great memories from the 1970s.
I remember my Mom was in comma for 2 days in the hospital. My sister told the nurse I play the guitar. She ran home and brought her guitar. I play one of my mothers favorite songs. All a sudden she opened her eyes and started to look and listen.
This is a great video of the Carter family playing Wildwood Flower. Wildwood Flower was the first song i learned to play on guitar at 11 years old back in the 60's and i still play that song even to this day. The thumb work is your bass work on the two top strings to give it the sound you hear. A.P. Carter and family lived real close to Gate City Virginia and would go to Bristol Virginia to a recording studio and cut records. His daughter June would latter marry Johnny Cash.
The Carter Family will ever be known for The Wildwood Flower one if the great songs of country music. Mother Maybelles guitar playing is in a class by itself.
My grandpa couldn't read music. But he could play any sting interment by ear. I remember every time he tried to think of a new song who would play wildwood flower over an over while he thought. What great memories his brought back.
I have such a deep feeling of melancholy listening to and watching these old films and recordings from the fifties - and earlier. To me, recordings of old country, and blues from the deep south, are gold. Sounds of Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys and others before, and also Mississippi John Hurt and others of the old Blues recordings, are as true and organic as can be. The entertainment world today is nothing but a monster destroying this country.
When I was wanting to get into music and learning how to play my grandfather told me he would pay for my guitar lessons and even buy me a guitar if I promised to learn one song first and it was this song. Ever time he came over or when I'd go over he'd ask me to play it and the smile on his face every time even the times I messed it up. He recently passed and I'm gonna miss him.
I'm a die hard Feminist and I worship Mother Maybelle. I live in Arkansas and grew up with this music. I even learned how to play an autoharp as a kid because of these women (my grandmother played one also.) My mother loved Anita. Her high wail in the background of Long Black Veil gives me chills. This has nothing to do with politics or feminism. It's about loving music and knowing a little history.
This was played at my grandmother's funeral in 2002. A righteous and God fearing woman she was. May she and the Carter family be welcomed on the other side.
One of the first songs I learned to play when I was gifted my first guitar way back in 1955 .. yep .. I’m that bloody old and it still makes my foot tap and my tears flow all these years later. Love love love that old time pure gold country music ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
something about this song, so haunting and so beautiful - perhaps heightened by the deep longing stare of mother Maybelle. Peace and love to all, God bless!
I love Maybelle Carter. Besides being a great singer and songwriter, it is sometimes forgotten what a great guitar player she was. As far as I am concerned, all country/bluegrass/folk flat-pickers/acoustic accompaniment to this day----comes out of Maybelle's style.
Anybody who plays guitar should know this song. It was majesty in my young life. I didn't understand the majesty until I purposefully sought it out as an adult. ❤️❤️
Hello, Donald. Hope you are well. If you enjoy female singer-songwriters, please check out my tunes on RUclips. I just finished recording five more. Thanks!
When I was growing up, I sometimes thought we were related to the Carter Family somehow, because my mother talked about them so often and so personally. Knowing that funeral homes now play music during a person's viewing, she put together her own playlist a couple weeks ago. We will be playing it for her next Monday.
This classic song and the performance shown here is the definitive version of that great tune. Amazing singing and the wonderful guitar playing is just superb. Always enjoy listening to Wildwood Flower.
My mom grew up on the carter family music. She used to always talk about them. Grew up in the same part of the country also. Being a rock musician myself, it took me many tears to appreciate this music. This is great music! I only wish I could play guitar that well.
What about Sara dedicating the song to Coy Bays and him hearing it? No phones in every house, no internet or email. Just a "border buster" radio station that carried from Mexico to California. Amazing!!!!!
Daddy used to play this in the evenings when I was little. I could only remember one line of the lyrics that my dad always sang and the beautiful guitar music he picked. For the longest time I never knew where to find it and now I listen to the Carter family frequently, especially when I think of my dad and how he used to play it for mom. I'm sure he thought of her as a wildwood flower. So beautiful and the Carter family plays superbly in our great American country tradition.
Yes! True classic country by the Carter Family that started country music in motion! I guess some might classify it as blue grass music. What ever you call it it is fabulous to listen too! I think of them as pioneers of this type of music. I just had to subscribe to this channel, because it has such great songs! ❤
For some reason tonight, I have been feeling the need to reconnect to my Kentucky roots, I listen to metal, play that type of guitar, but tonight, after many years I want to forget all the anger and strong emotions and just hear something for the soul, the last time I've felt this way was when my dad died two years ago, its nice to know I'm always welcome to come back to this music and feel my heritage.
As a metal head myself, I feel this. I think the blues roots to rock will always call us back to our Kentucky homes. I wish you luck in your grief and journey. I'm here tonight for similar reasons so it was nice to see your comment
Damn, what amazing live performers they were! They were always spot-on with every harmony, every instrumental part. It's almost hard to believe in this day and age when performers have a lot of uhh "technological assistance" with their performances. lol
Ahhh, Maybelle and the Carter Scratch on that huge Gibson L5. Almost couldn't see Maybelle behind that behemoth. Just tickles me watching "Mom" Carter handle that beast. Plain, straightforward, unadulterated, simple music played very, very well. Just wish we could find a higher quality (remastered?), higher resolution (1080p+) of one of these Carter "Wildwood Flower" performances (Hint: Grand Ole Opry The Carters's Wildwood Flower is certainly worthy of a quality reproduction release!).
Both my parents grew up in Dungannon, Va - deepest Appalachia. My mom told me many times that the Carters would perform in places like school auditoriums during the Depression. If you didn't have the price of admission, people would bring home-canned goods, fried chicken, you name it. The Carter Family never turned anyone away. These were desperately poor times in Southwest Virginia in the 30's and 40's, so hearing the Carters play was like hearing angels sing on earth to the poor farm folk in the audience. Although my parents were very young then, they never forgot Mother Maybelle and all the rest bringing great music to their doorstep.
After playing my guitar for Mom in the senior's home, when leaving I stopped to play some Wildwood flower for an elderly lady with dementia in her wheelchair who doesn't speak anymore. To my surprise, she hummed the tune exactly and her face lit right up. Music does amazing things.
alan4sure thank you for doing that.
That's really cool how's everything going
God bless you.
that's amazing thank you. That's the magic of music and all that it represents
My mother’s favorite song by far. 85 years old on the 6th of October. And my mum will sing this song like an angel on her birthday!
My Uncle Ray Edenton right behind her, A team session rhythm guitar player for 40 years
Who, the one playing the bass?
@@StephenBingham-kp2ld No, the guy playing rhythm guitar. The only one of the three guys in back of the Carters who is playing guitar.
I just checked out your uncle on Wikipedia. Wow, he really had some career! The only possible answer to the question, "Who did Edenton play with?" is "Everyone. Name a star. Yep, played with 'em." And it's amazing how long he lived, especially given he contracted TB at a time when it was notoriously tough to cure. Was he a storyteller?
So kewl
@@twlvhrs As a studio player he must have laid tracks for a lot of different artists albums. Did he ever do session work at the studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama?
2024 anyone?!?! I know.. we grew up.
Just watching Johnny cash and June Carter on the TV
Learning this one on guitar rn for my grandparents
I started practicing clawhammer banjo couple years ago and I just HAVE to get this tune in my repertoire!
64 years young......
As a young man. Hello old people. Love yall
Joe Zincan was a popular bass player in those times, as was Lightning Chance (but that’s not Lightning)
If anyone has a clue as to who the Bass Player is.. please chime in
The famous "Carter scratch". This woman basically invented country music. Thousands of guitar players owe their careers to her.
You should look up the name Lesley Riddle than...
Several years ago, I drove over to Hiltons, Virginia to a small Methodist church to pay my respects to AP Carter who is buried there. These people began what is now country music. Respect ❤.
Our family lives down there!
Sitting here in nostalgic tears. I am 61 years old and when I was little mom had the album with this song on it. We lived in a tiny little house in Saskatchewan and some nights mom and dad would have friends over to play guitar and sing. I grew up listening to the Carter Family and listening to it just brings back mom and her guitar. Thank you so much for posting this.
Valerie great story !
why did you fuck up America?why does liberal shit teach you how to live?
@@user-vq9eg6qf9k sick
@@user-vq9eg6qf9k Um, Saskatchewan is in Canada. Learn geography.
I am 62. .Simple time Smiles. .Yeah . .old Ohio
Those 3 part harmonies around one mic - sublime
These are beautiful songs played by the very best. I love/loved Mother Maybell.
In other words, REAL singing! : )
@@Mandrake591 Yeah none of that fake lip-synched autotune crap!
low fifth is so clear .. a mic
Hell, how about that guitar playing at 1:07. I played the guitar for 15 years and could never play anything that clean
In 2012 , at my mothers funeral, my daughter got up with her guitar and dedicated this song to my mom as it was her favorite song. My daughter did an amazing job singing and playing. My mother would have been so proud 😌
That's sweet. ♥️🌷
would have been an honor to be there ... did anyone record it???
I'm proud of your daughter too. I don't even know your family, but they have to be good people.
GOD
BLESS YOUR DAUGHTER. I am sure your Mom heard it from above. I tear up when i read this story , I think of My Mom gone since 2002 and Imiss her every day.
vwj570
all who pass must be honoured. they have given us so much.
@@markzimmer5477
I am older than dirt , so I grew up with my mom and her 4 sister humming and singing the Carter songs. They were at the time , bigger than any rock star , and are still remembered as the start of real american music. I still go to Mother's grave and play tunes on my mandolin.
Gives me shivers every time, that's what I call real music.
Hello Cecile, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
@realdonaldtrump: As opposed to Milli Vanilli and others like them! They're Fake Music!
I found this song by accident after 40 years of trying because my daddy Played it on the harmonica when I was a little girl. I was so happy to find it! Music speaks to the heart. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Shannon, how are you doing today?
This was my Mothers favorite song. Lord how I miss her. She died July 20th 1997 in my arms.
+Rick Taylor God rest her soul sir.
+Rick Taylor Yeah, my mom died in my arms in 2005, and I`ve never recovered. I am, however, so grateful that I had the opportunity to see her off. The last thing she saw in the world was the eyes of a person who loved her. I take some solace in this. Anyway, I`m so sorry for your loss. I still dream about my mom almost every night, and its been almost 11 years.
+Paul Snider
I often dream about my Mother, too. In my dreams she is always smiling and happy. I think it's her way of letting me know she is in Heaven, and no longer in pain, as I said, you will never know pain, until your Mother dies. Be grateful you had her as long as you did.
+Rick Taylor im so sorry she had to die in your arms dude.
+Dick Johnson
I would not have had it any other way. I loved her beyond love.
Thanks bud.
There's magic in this music. The essence of American country music. Thanks for uploading.
Before everything went rock and electric.
The original Carter Family were all long dead by the time I came into this world, but there's something oddly nostalgic about their music. It's like I've been transported back to the 1920s despite having never even lived through that period.
This is maybelles spirit playing and her sister as well...only Jesus can help anyone sound this good...true talent and spiritual people who had what it took!! God Bless and hope to hear concerts when i go to Heaven!!
Carter Family = a golden period of country music.
I wander who are giving this great musicians thumb down.
They are great, wonderful and amazing. God bless them.
Heartbreakingly beautiful. Especially since we don't get real mountain music like that anymore. They were the best.
I don’t know much about these (the carter family) but I ain’t even lying when I say that woman is one of the best guitarists I’ve ever seen, she’s picking a melody and strumming chord at the same time!!! While singing 🤯 skill
For a little perspective, that's June Carter Cash Johnny Cash's wife playing the autoharp
@@jareddawson7239 yeah I know June but I didn’t really know Mother Maybelle and the others that well, I know abit more now, I only got onto the carters cus I’m a Johnny Cash fan and now I love these too.
Mother Maybelle perfected this method of strumming which was eventually called the “Carter scratch.” Her style influenced generation after generation of guitarists from all genres of music, and I’m sure she’ll continue to impact music for the rest of time!
@@annak.9470 she was truly fantastic 👌🏼
It's not that hard to do once you get the feel of it but she was definitely a pioneer and had it down perfectly
Lots of singers have sung this classic number but this rendition is by far the definitive one. The Carter family singing their signature song, Wildwood Flower.
I like the Jim Stafford version. 😊
What a beautiful music. Not fashionable but made for eternity.
An old boy from Tennessee taught me how to pick this when we were deployed over seas..i had never heard it, but he told me i'd never forget it...man, was he right..changed my life..I don't let a day go by without listening to this song...It is that important ..
i can play the first part
@@kristadrinkard7962 Do you know it all now? I just started learning it yesterday. I had a lot of trouble because of muting strings, but when I put the capo down 4 frets, the muting went away because my hand didn't need to stretch to span the frets.
In Eastern Kentucky you always learned two great songs no matter what and those song's were Johnny B. Good and the great Wildwood Flower. I play Wildwood Flower three different ways on guitar.
I feel like a hillbilly, chewin' on a weed, thinking about peanuts and potatoes with molasses.
Vielen Dank für diese schöne, fremde Musik in meinen Ohren. Grüße aus Deutschland.
Hello Kamilla, how are you doing today?
@@aidenelwell6308 I start over every day, like a stand-up man. So today was a good day. Greetings from Dresden. Unfortunately we learned Russian for 6 years in the east of Germany completely for free. I am sad that my english is deficient so the translator has to try. Greetings from Dresden.
I just started to learn this song on guitar. It got my curiosity, so I looked up some history on this song. I always thought the Carters were just some backward hillbillies as I never was one to listen to their music. That is my loss. I didn't realize what a genius and legend Maybelle was. I am humbled, but now I know.
Watching Maybelle Carter pick that baseline on the guitar is priceless. What a pioneer! Just brilliant.
I sure do miss the 70s, 80,s and 90s. The music🎺 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Hello Deborah, how are you doing today?
@@derekfovargue6676gotta actually look for good music.
By any measure this is in the top five of all country music songs. Don't you agree?
I love how when they lean in to sing harmony, they are all exactly the same distance from the microphone. Family harmony, all with equal power, knowing exactly where to go. Can't get any closer than that...
No words can describe how totally awesome this is.
Mama Carter.. the matriarch of country music.. just humbling to see her in action absolutely amazing..
My dad always said “If you can’t pick Wildwood Flower, you got no business with a guitar!” Every Saturday while mom was at work, he would play the guitar and we would “sing” Wildwood Flower was ALWAYS included (and Puff the Magic Dragon 😉) Those were the best days of my life!
Hello Bridget, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
I listen to every version of this song on RUclips that I can find and, still, coming back to Mother Maybelle and girls....this is the most vibrant, most intense, most beautifully and clearly picked performance...obviously the standard that no one else has been able to surpass. The Angels of American Country Music live forever!
I like the one Maybelle recorded on her 19th birthday.
The first and greatest family of Country Music.
Mother Maybelle was a great musician. I love to watch her. The Carter scratch will endure forever.
A gorgeous lady and her three gorgeous daughters.
So great classic old country music!! I loved the Carter Family!!
Hello Deborah, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
The first time I heard this song played by Hand Thompson 1955 IAM 87 now and still love the song and tune Great music for sure
I just love this song...my Daddy and almost all of his siblings played it...it was certainly my favorite. I'd always ask Daddy to play it for me...now it brings me to tears because it just makes me miss Daddy so very much! Hope you're playing for the angels Daddy..along with Uncle Doug and Aunt Mavis...I still love and miss you so much! Other people often point out that you weren't perfect..you were an alcoholic! But you know what...you were my Daddy and I loved you anyway. I still do! RIP Daddy, till we meet again. 🙏 ❤
Hi nancy was this your Favorite song??
This is the brightest song possible.
Music doesn't get much better than this. Maybelle Carter - what a talent!
That first verse can only come from a mountain person. Just amazing. An entirely different world
She didnt write it. The song was written by a YANKEE from Manchester NH far from the south. Lyrics by an educated poet. Written in 1860s and popular on both sides during Civil War.
Appalachian mountains @@myradioon
Mother Maybelle had to be the best female guitar player back in her days no doubt. Hell, she was better than a lot of men in those days. RIP Mother Maybelle, Helen, Junebug, and Anita.
Ted Kay... They are all dead. The last one was June and she died back in 2003.
Aside from the bluesmen and maybe a couple hillbilly virtuosos, she probably was the best in America at the time
Check out sister Rosetta Tharpe...she is amazing
And mother Maybelle used to say " but I'm not really a guitar player". Lol
@@Voxguitarsrock That's the same thing I say. And I try to keep it that way. I just can't begin to grasp what people even mean by "good guitar player" or how you go about ranking them. My guess is that Maybelle saw her self as a folk musician, playing the old music in her own unique and authentic way, at a time when guitars were becoming cheaper than and more available banjos, and in doing so defined the next 100 years of country music.
That's some mighty fine guitar picking.
This is my very favorite song. My wife played the guitar and sang many nights to the same. My condolences to you poor people who gave this "thumbs down". it would be so much better if you would not indicate your musical ineptitude. It hurts the feelings of many of us.
It may hurt your feelings, but it is ultimately their loss.
Youtub should remove the "thumbs down" button. Any song no matter how great will always have detractors. People who like the song don't need to be annoyed needlessly.
The first family of country music. One of the earliest recorded songs ever. Thank you for the knowledge mr. Ken Burns
I was BLESSED to have such GREAT music enrich my life! Grandma use to sing the Carters to me while growing up, and it was the BEST thing ever! I sure Miss her very much!
RIP GRANDMA WANDA 3/1923-4/2016
Love Your Grandson Robert!
I remember music like this from when I was kid in our farming community. Local musicians played at Christmas and other holidays at our country hall. Great memories from the 1970s.
I remember my Mom was in comma for 2 days in the hospital. My sister told the nurse I play the guitar. She ran home and brought her guitar. I play one of my mothers favorite songs. All a sudden she opened her eyes and started to look and listen.
Listening to my father play this when I was a child, back in the 50's lit a fire in me that stayed with me long after he passed. Thanks Dad!
My grandfather just passed away and this was his favorite song ever, this song will forever be special in my heart❤️
This is a great video of the Carter family playing Wildwood Flower. Wildwood Flower was the first song i learned to play on guitar at 11 years old back in the 60's and i still play that song even to this day. The thumb work is your bass work on the two top strings to give it the sound you hear. A.P. Carter and family lived real close to Gate City Virginia and would go to Bristol Virginia to a recording studio and cut records. His daughter June would latter marry Johnny Cash.
The Carter Family will ever be known for The Wildwood Flower one if the great songs of country music. Mother Maybelles guitar playing is in a class by itself.
My grandpa couldn't read music. But he could play any sting interment by ear. I remember every time he tried to think of a new song who would play wildwood flower over an over while he thought. What great memories his brought back.
Hey Kayla how are you )
I have such a deep feeling of melancholy listening to and watching these old films and recordings from the fifties - and earlier. To me, recordings of old country, and blues from the deep south, are gold. Sounds of Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys and others before, and also Mississippi John Hurt and others of the old Blues recordings, are as true and organic as can be.
The entertainment world today is nothing but a monster destroying this country.
Amen!!
It's enough to reduce me to tears.
This is real Country Music to me.
When I was wanting to get into music and learning how to play my grandfather told me he would pay for my guitar lessons and even buy me a guitar if I promised to learn one song first and it was this song. Ever time he came over or when I'd go over he'd ask me to play it and the smile on his face every time even the times I messed it up. He recently passed and I'm gonna miss him.
These beautiful ladies were awesome!
+Dennis Galloway Mother Maybelle looks prettier here than she did in her pics from the 20's with Sara and AP
+Dennis Galloway And apparently don't make the feminazi cut for female role models.
You are so right!
I'm a die hard Feminist and I worship Mother Maybelle. I live in Arkansas and grew up with this music. I even learned how to play an autoharp as a kid because of these women (my grandmother played one also.) My mother loved Anita. Her high wail in the background of Long Black Veil gives me chills. This has nothing to do with politics or feminism. It's about loving music and knowing a little history.
Men most of them
Thank you. Thank you for keeping this precious recording online for the world to love and enjoy.
Was very pleasantly surprised to hear this in the South Park game, "Fractured But Whole", in the quest where you play music for the elderly.
Pure talent and true love of the music! Proud to call this music part of my American mountain roots!
As innocent and original as music can give. The simplicity and ultimate fame of the cater family (sisters) brings tears to my eyes.
Who wouldn't like this rendition of "Wildwood Flower"? It brings back so many memories of the past!
Such a lovely family, wildwood flowers all.
If only the world was as wholesome as this song
This evokes the essence of America...love it!
Yup
Exactly
This was played at my grandmother's funeral in 2002. A righteous and God fearing woman she was. May she and the Carter family be welcomed on the other side.
One of the first songs I learned to play when I was gifted my first guitar way back in 1955 .. yep .. I’m that bloody old and it still makes my foot tap and my tears flow all these years later. Love love love that old time pure gold country music ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Perfection. No other word needed
Do you realize just how good this is?, pure, genuine talent. Thank God they made the trip to Bristol.
Amen to that.
Yea two legends were started that day in Bristol- them and Jimmy Rogers. They started calling it "The Birthplace of Country Music". Still do.
something about this song, so haunting and so beautiful - perhaps heightened by the deep longing stare of mother Maybelle. Peace and love to all, God bless!
Loved my Carter had a old battery operated radio growing up heard Jimmy Rodgers.Love more.We were dirt poor 17 of us kids.7 now.
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This is close to the most amazing thing I've ever seen ❤
My Mom played and sang this song to me since forever! I grew up listening to this! Love this song!
I love Maybelle Carter. Besides being a great singer and songwriter, it is sometimes forgotten what a great guitar player she was. As far as I am concerned, all country/bluegrass/folk flat-pickers/acoustic accompaniment to this day----comes out of Maybelle's style.
She was also a tough minded businesswoman...she was talented and smart.
Anybody who plays guitar should know this song. It was majesty in my young life. I didn't understand the majesty until I purposefully sought it out as an adult. ❤️❤️
I saw June and Johnny's daughter Rosanne Cash live in the city in the early '80s. I had the opportunity to meet her. Nice person, very genuine.
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When I was growing up, I sometimes thought we were related to the Carter Family somehow, because my mother talked about them so often and so personally.
Knowing that funeral homes now play music during a person's viewing, she put together her own playlist a couple weeks ago. We will be playing it for her next Monday.
Thank you for sharing your story. May she be in heaven with the angels.
This classic song and the performance shown here is the definitive version of that great tune. Amazing singing and the wonderful guitar playing is just superb. Always enjoy listening to Wildwood Flower.
Absolutely. One of my very favorite songs. Mother Maybelle and Earl Scruggs are my favorite guitar players. They are great. Thank goodness 😅
My mom grew up on the carter family music. She used to always talk about them. Grew up in the same part of the country also. Being a rock musician myself, it took me many tears to appreciate this music. This is great music! I only wish I could play guitar that well.
This is one of the first songs I learned to play on acoustic. 🎸
Wow! My mom and her 4 sisters sang like this, but no instruments, just vocals , from West Virginia.
Awesome!
I hope I can meet the Carter Family in heaven....if I get there
Gosh maydenden, you write the best comments. I wish I could be you.
Maybelle was on fire here! as always :) if only Sara Carter did not retire in 1943 she could of experienced so much with her family.
This is my favorite version of their singing Wildwood Flower
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I love how June was really getting into the song, bopping in her seat, until Mama gave her the ol' stink-eye and calmed her down.
she didn't give her a "stink-eye"; all she did was look at her w a smile
@@ofbyforpeople1384 You obviously aren't a mother.
Watching Ken Burns documentary Country Music. This is a great song.
Same here! What a fascinating documentary!!
On PBS? That's what brought me here last night too!
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Great documentary!
What about Sara dedicating the song to Coy Bays and him hearing it? No phones in every house, no internet or email. Just a "border buster" radio station that carried from Mexico to California. Amazing!!!!!
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Quite the love story! My husband and I are learning so many things we never knew watching this documentary!
Daddy used to play this in the evenings when I was little. I could only remember one line of the lyrics that my dad always sang and the beautiful guitar music he picked. For the longest time I never knew where to find it and now I listen to the Carter family frequently, especially when I think of my dad and how he used to play it for mom. I'm sure he thought of her as a wildwood flower. So beautiful and the Carter family plays superbly in our great American country tradition.
Amazing and unforgettable memories...
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Yes! True classic country by the Carter Family that started country music in motion! I guess some might classify it as blue grass music. What ever you call it it is fabulous to listen too! I think of them as pioneers of this type of music. I just had to subscribe to this channel, because it has such great songs! ❤
It's people like the Carter clan that helped make this country great! God bless you Mother Mabelle!
For some reason tonight, I have been feeling the need to reconnect to my Kentucky roots, I listen to metal, play that type of guitar, but tonight, after many years I want to forget all the anger and strong emotions and just hear something for the soul, the last time I've felt this way was when my dad died two years ago, its nice to know I'm always welcome to come back to this music and feel my heritage.
As a metal head myself, I feel this. I think the blues roots to rock will always call us back to our Kentucky homes. I wish you luck in your grief and journey. I'm here tonight for similar reasons so it was nice to see your comment
I always can’t help focusing on how Ma Maybel keeps hitting June with her guitar. It’s so hysterical
Chef d'œuvre, grande famille country, belles voix, brillantes musiciennes, tout cela avec simplicité
This makes me think if my father, he didn't sing but I remember him playing this tune on his guitar when I was growing up ❤
Same story here, it was the only song he could play.
@@docriordan7787 I don't know why but that makes me happy to have such a random thing in common with someone else on this planet 😊
@@mdinunzio7610 agreed it is different in this day and age. I was going to write the same comment until I saw yours so just added to it.
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Damn, what amazing live performers they were! They were always spot-on with every harmony, every instrumental part. It's almost hard to believe in this day and age when performers have a lot of uhh "technological assistance" with their performances. lol
Such wonderful harmonies from Mom and Daughters Carter. Johnny Cash was deeply blessed to be surrounded by all of them.
I agree!😊
Ahhh, Maybelle and the Carter Scratch on that huge Gibson L5. Almost couldn't see Maybelle behind that behemoth.
Just tickles me watching "Mom" Carter handle that beast.
Plain, straightforward, unadulterated, simple music played very, very well. Just wish we could find a higher quality (remastered?), higher resolution (1080p+) of one of these Carter "Wildwood Flower" performances (Hint: Grand Ole Opry The Carters's Wildwood Flower is certainly worthy of a quality reproduction release!).
Only just discovered this amazing group. This is music at its purest and it is so beautiful! Can't stop listening to it!
I think this is one of the very best country songs ever written, and this certain performance singing the song fantastic. Long live the Carter family!
She didnt write it. Written by a YANKEE from Manchester NH with lyrics by an educated Poet. Popular during Civil War on both sides.
@@myradioon I know.
If you like any country, Folk or rock music, Thank The Carter family because it wouldn't exist if not for them.
Wish more musical families like this would come along! Those Carter Ladies were something else!