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Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family (2008)
The Original Carter Family
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'CIRCLE' OF LIFE The Carters (from l.) Mother Maybelle, Sara, and A.P.
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Lead Performance: The Original Carter Family
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Even a half century after they cut their last record, it's almost impossible to overstate the influence of A.P. Carter, his wife Sara, and her sister Maybelle: They did it first; they did it best. On ''Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family,'' just listen to Maybelle's astonishing guitar work and A.P.'s haunting baritone on ''My Clinch Mountain Home'' and try not to imagine the somnolent magic of a backwoods hollow, a freshly washed gingham dress, the dusty grit of a lonely country road. Spare, spiritual, and unsentimental -- a tonic for our times. A
Posted Jun 27, 2000
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