The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Wildwood Flower
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow Tree
  2:53
• 3
  Little Log Cabin by the Sea
  2:50
• 4
  The Poor Orphan Child
  3:26
• 5
  The Storms Are on the Ocean
  2:49
• 6
  Single Girl, Married Girl
  2:47
• 7
  Little Darling, Pal of Mine
  3:16
• 8
  Keep on the Sunny Side
  2:52
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Anchored in Love
  2:46
• 10
  John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
  2:57
• 11
  I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow
  2:44
• 12
  Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?
  3:15
• 13
  River of Jordan
  2:39
• 14
  Motherless Child
  3:38
• 15
  The Western Hobo
  2:57
• 16
  Carter’s Blues
  2:59
• 17
  Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy
  2:36
• 18
  Kitty’ Waltz
  3:05
• 19
  The Cannonball
  3:00
• 20
  The Little Log Hut in the Lane
  2:49
• CD 2
• 1
  I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
  3:04
• 2
  Wabash Cannonball
  2:58
• 3
  When the World’s on Fire
  3:10
• 4
  Worried Man Blues
  2:46
• 5
  Lonesome Valley
  2:41
• 6
  On the Rock Where Moses Stood
  3:10
• 7
  Lonesome Pine Special
  3:01
• 8
  No More the Moon Shines on Lorena
  3:05
• 9
  Weary Prodigal Son
  2:40
• 10
  When I’m Gone
  3:05
• 11
  Lonesome for You
  2:48
• 12
  Can’t Feel at Home
  2:55
• 13
  Mid the Green Fields of Virginia
  2:48
• 14
  Picture on the Wall
  3:19
• 15
  Tell Me That You Love Me
  3:05
• 16
  Where We’ll Never Grow Old
  3:04
• 17
  We Will March Through the Streets of the City
  2:50
• 18
  I’ll Be Home Someday
  2:34
• 19
  Faded Coat of Blue
  3:11
• 20
  Give Me Your Love and I’ll Give You Mine
  2:57
• CD 3
• 1
  Can the Circle Be Unbroken? (Bye and Bye)
  3:11
• 2
  My Dixie Darling
  2:58
• 3
  Are You Lonesome Tonight?
  2:58
• 4
  The Wayworn Traveller
  3:04
• 5
  Just Another Broken Heart
  3:14
• 6
  In a Little Village Churchyard
  3:12
• 7
  Jealous Hearted Me
  2:41
• 8
  No Depression (In Heaven)
  2:55
• 9
  In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain
  3:15
• 10
  Hello Stranger
  2:45
• 11
  Never Let the Devil Get the Upper Hand of You
  3:22
• 12
  When This Evening Sun Goes Down
  2:47
• 13
  You Better Leave That Liar Alone
  2:53
• 14
  You Are My Flower
  3:09
• 15
  Lonesome Homesick Blues
  2:34
• 16
  Girl on the Green Briar Store
  3:00
• 17
  Something Got a Hold of Me
  2:46
• 18
  Keep on the Firing Line
  3:07
• 19
  Waves on the Sea
  2:43
• 20
  Rambling Boy
  2:53

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Wildwood Flower

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The Carter Family Volume 2 1935-1941

The Carter Family Volume 2 1935-1941 2003

The Carter Family 1927-1934

The Carter Family 1927-1934 2002

Little Darling Pal of Mine / Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone

Little Darling Pal of Mine / Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone 1928

The Carter Family Collection, Vol. 2 (1935-1941)

The Carter Family Collection, Vol. 2 (1935-1941) 2022

Across Generations

Across Generations 2019

Release credits

• A.P. Carter
  arranger [13], vocal [2.1, 2.3-20, 3.1-6, 3.8-9, 3.11-13, 3.17-20, 1.2-5, 1.7-9, 1.12-15, 1.19-20]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  guitar [3.1-20, 2.1-2, 2.4-20, 1.1-6, 1.8-14, 1.16-20], steel guitar [1.7, 1.15, 2.3], vocal [3.1-16, 3.18-20, 2.4-8, 2.10, 2.12-20, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8, 1.13, 1.18, 1.20]
• Ralph Peer
  producer [2.4, 1.2-6, 1.19]
• Sara Carter
  autoharp [2.1-6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12-13, 2.20, 3.1-6, 3.10, 3.15-19, 1.2-9, 1.11, 1.13-14, 1.17, 1.19-20], guitar [3.7-9, 3.11-14, 3.20, 1.15-16, 1.18, 2.7, 2.9, 2.14-19], solo [2], vocal [3.1-16, 3.18-20, 1.1-18, 1.20, 2.1-20]

Issues

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  The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

  3x CD
  2016