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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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 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.
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.
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 ❤.
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.
@@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 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!
I listen to every version of this song on UA-cam 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 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 am a New Zealander and l found this song in a list of 15 best folk songs of all time. I knew all of the others but I had never even heard of this one. I can see that it is truly meaningful to the Americas, but no more meaningful than thousands of other beautiful melodies to the rest of the world. Greensleeves is a personal favourite dating back to the 16th century. It is thought that Henry VIII played it. Some think he wrote it. I have heard of the Carters, but only in connection to Johnny Cash. I am in my middle 70s now, so l grew up with Elvis, the Beatles, BobDylan, Joan Baez and Peter Paul and Mary on the Radio. No TV in our country til the 60s.
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!
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 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. 🙏 ❤
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...
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.
A song I wished to learn to play on guitar, my dad would sit at our eat at bar sippin' his rye and pickin' this song, always blew me away, I miss him immensely.❤
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.
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 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Utter perfection. Complex musically yet lovely simplicity. To my mind I visualize Carter family members' DNA to be composed of pure music notes & guitar strings
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.
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.
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! ❤
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. ❤️❤️
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 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 just wanted to give a heart felt thank you, My mom and Dad, (Duane) would bring together some friends and neighbors to play a music somewhere in the Eastern hills of TN on special occasions my Mom & Grandma Scott would sing Carter Family Songs like "Black Jack David & WildwoodFlower" and then my Grandma would sing "Let's just Pretend" and even though she didn't know who wrote or for sure how the tune went she patiently taught the song to Andrew Gunner (who was very tall and lanky musician loved by us all). These memories are so precious to my family, especially me and sisters and brother. Thanks
Just last weekend I got to visit the Carter family fold. What an amazing place. The scenery is beautiful, and the history behind it is so interesting. I would suggest for anyone to go there! I absolutely love old time music, and in my lifetime I will do all I can to introduce it to people, and keep it alive.
I'm up to about 50 listenings and i can't stop, i agree with lateraius this is the best live performance ever . just perfect! and its only about a minute long
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.
When I was a child here in England my father put this on our radiogram ( a large piece of furniture with a turn table and radio) and I became fascinated by the solo and the song ..as I grew up I got a guitar and learned to play it and still love it to this day ..this is a great gateway fir guitar players
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 grew up in Western Kentucky in the 60's (born in "58) i saw Bill Monroe at the Ohio county fair along with the Everly Bros, To this day I pick a fair guitar. Thanks Guys!
Beautiful music and so well done by the Carter family. I can remember this way back when I was a kid, on WWVA Radio. Still beautiful after many decades. ❤❤❤
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.
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!
Listened to many versions of "Wildwood Flower" but this one stands far above all others. A true classic of American Country Music. Country music in its true origins no longer exists and hasn't since the passing of these and other great country artists from that era up through the 1960's and early 1970's..
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!!
Talk about a flashback. Grew up on this back in the sixties. Couldn't get enough of their sound which stays with me today......then, back then, along came my brother's early Dylan albums and my pirated play of them.....and then as a wage earner, lookout here comes The Doors, my own Dylan albums,Neil Young, the Stones etc, etc,etc. The rest is history.Still retain the feel for it sans the enthusiasm, as with the Harley Davidsons including its ego driven lifestyle. All virtually archived. Ahhh, such is life.
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.
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!!!!!
Magnificent on all points, whatever we like or not the style, this family is so clever and touching ! Great way to follow; Music is fundamental for well growing of children, and during all the life ! A family without music is not a normal family. from France !
What beautiful Heritage., you folks have something to be proud of let me tell you,God Bless you all and the joy that these old videos bring , especially to me as I have been such a Fan of BlueGrass and Hillbilly music, from the Ozarks sins the late 60's
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!
me siento como si estuviera viendo bonanza o el gran chaparral al oir estas lindas melodias angloparlantes campesinas, me gusta mucho el country, saludos desde Ecuador. I feel like I was watching bonanza or high chaparral to hear these nice English-speaking peasant melodies, I love the country, Greetings from Ecuador.
My dad's dad lived in meridian. He was a mechanic. He used to ho trains and git his legs cut off. He worked as a mechanic at US Motors and when he wanted to get the pressure off his knees with his prothetics, they made him a lift that he could houst himself with and work on a car
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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!
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.
I've been misspelling her beautiful name. It's not Maybell but rather Maybelle. Oh she's a joy.
What artist would do this today?
That is awesome.
That guitar pickin is called…”The Carter scratch”
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?
@@ИеронимВагнер-и5и sick
@@ИеронимВагнер-и5и Um, Saskatchewan is in Canada. Learn geography.
I am 62. .Simple time Smiles. .Yeah . .old Ohio
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.
Bless you
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?
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
Carter Family = a golden period of country music.
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
There's magic in this music. The essence of American country music. Thanks for uploading.
Before everything went rock and electric.
agree re magic
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?
Heartbreakingly beautiful. Especially since we don't get real mountain music like that anymore. They were the best.
I know what you mean! Miss this music!
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.
I wander who are giving this great musicians thumb down.
They are great, wonderful and amazing. God bless them.
One of the beautiful songs in history! God bless you Carters!
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.
Your experience is what makes me never give up on people.
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!
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!
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.
Mama Carter.. the matriarch of country music.. just humbling to see her in action absolutely amazing..
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 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
I listen to every version of this song on UA-cam 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.
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.
I am a New Zealander and l found this song in a list of 15 best folk songs of all time. I knew all of the others but I had never even heard of this one. I can see that it is truly meaningful to the Americas, but no more meaningful than thousands of other beautiful melodies to the rest of the world. Greensleeves is a personal favourite dating back to the 16th century. It is thought that Henry VIII played it. Some think he wrote it. I have heard of the Carters, but only in connection to Johnny Cash. I am in my middle 70s now, so l grew up with Elvis, the Beatles, BobDylan, Joan Baez and Peter Paul and Mary on the Radio. No TV in our country til the 60s.
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.
Chef d'œuvre, grande famille country, belles voix, brillantes musiciennes, tout cela avec simplicité
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!
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. 😊
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??
The first family of country music. One of the earliest recorded songs ever. Thank you for the knowledge mr. Ken Burns
If Burns said that, he's wrong. There were music recording made over 30 years before this one.
No words can describe how totally awesome this is.
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...
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.
By any measure this is in the top five of all country music songs. Don't you agree?
YES.
My grandfather just passed away and this was his favorite song ever, this song will forever be special in my heart❤️
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...
If she didn't do someone else would have but yeah you're right
Thank you. Thank you for keeping this precious recording online for the world to love and enjoy.
Pure talent and true love of the music! Proud to call this music part of my American mountain roots!
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.
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!
So great classic old country music!! I loved the Carter Family!!
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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
A song I wished to learn to play on guitar, my dad would sit at our eat at bar sippin' his rye and pickin' this song, always blew me away, I miss him immensely.❤
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 😅
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!
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 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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.
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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 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.
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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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.
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What a wonderful video! So nice to see a close up of the guitar. Thank you for sharing this piece of musical history.
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Agree 100 percent!
Omg this is beautiful
My head still can't even process how she played like that. Amazing.
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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.
Utter perfection. Complex musically yet lovely simplicity.
To my mind I visualize Carter family members' DNA to be composed of pure music notes & guitar strings
The first and greatest family of Country Music.
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.
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.
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.
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! ❤
Grew up with this song on a daily routine! My Mom played it on the guitar, loved it, sang it and danced to it! A big part of my childhood memories!
Hello Rhonda, 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😊🌹
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. ❤️❤️
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
My Mom played and sang this song to me since forever! I grew up listening to this! Love this song!
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 just wanted to give a heart felt thank you, My mom and Dad, (Duane) would bring together some friends and neighbors to play a music somewhere in the Eastern hills of TN on special occasions my Mom & Grandma Scott would sing Carter Family Songs like "Black Jack David & WildwoodFlower" and then my Grandma would sing "Let's just Pretend" and even though she didn't know who wrote or for sure how the tune went she patiently taught the song to Andrew Gunner (who was very tall and lanky musician loved by us all). These memories are so precious to my family, especially me and sisters and brother.
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Only just discovered this amazing group. This is music at its purest and it is so beautiful! Can't stop listening to it!
This is wonderful. Imagine being there in person to listen to this. LOVE IT - - !!
Just last weekend I got to visit the Carter family fold. What an amazing place. The scenery is beautiful, and the history behind it is so interesting. I would suggest for anyone to go there! I absolutely love old time music, and in my lifetime I will do all I can to introduce it to people, and keep it alive.
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Never met the KY and TN kinfolks but my mom did. She kept their memories alive by way of this beautiful music.
Such wonderful harmonies from Mom and Daughters Carter. Johnny Cash was deeply blessed to be surrounded by all of them.
I agree!😊
I'm up to about 50 listenings and i can't stop, i agree with lateraius this is the best live performance ever . just perfect! and its only about a minute long
If you like any country, Folk or rock music, Thank The Carter family because it wouldn't exist if not for them.
Music doesn't get much better than this. Maybelle Carter - what a talent!
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 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.
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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When I was a child here in England my father put this on our radiogram ( a large piece of furniture with a turn table and radio) and I became fascinated by the solo and the song ..as I grew up I got a guitar and learned to play it and still love it to this day ..this is a great gateway fir guitar players
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 grew up in Western Kentucky in the 60's (born in "58) i saw Bill Monroe at the Ohio county fair along with the Everly Bros, To this day I pick a fair guitar. Thanks Guys!
Beautiful music and so well done by the Carter family. I can remember this way back when I was a kid, on WWVA Radio. Still beautiful after many decades.
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As soon as I heard this song i had to learn it, it was stuck in my mind. Love it. Thanks Carter family. 😉
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.
Amazing again- Thanks UA-cam for getting me better acquainted with Carter Women Power People
Now that was the good old days
I miss those days but you can't
Bring them back except in music
Thank God thank you for sharing 😀😁😂😁 made my day
I have read your comments, and what i can say is that you've taught me what love is and how every moment is golden.
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!
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Listened to many versions of "Wildwood Flower" but this one stands far above all others. A true classic of American Country Music. Country music in its true origins no longer exists and hasn't since the passing of these and other great country artists from that era up through the 1960's and early 1970's..
Martin Driskell you bet
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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!!
Music lost its way. Thank god for this music. Carter scratch is legend.
You lost your way with that creepy Confederate flag. The South lost, lol.
Talk about a flashback. Grew up on this back in the sixties. Couldn't get enough of their sound which stays with me today......then, back then, along came my brother's early Dylan albums and my pirated play of them.....and then as a wage earner, lookout here comes The Doors, my own Dylan albums,Neil Young, the Stones etc, etc,etc. The rest is history.Still retain the feel for it sans the enthusiasm, as with the Harley Davidsons including its ego driven lifestyle. All virtually archived. Ahhh, such is life.
What a beautiful music. Not fashionable but made for eternity.
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.
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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!
This is amazing, Thank you very much from Spain!
Magnificent on all points, whatever we like or not the style, this family is so clever and touching ! Great way to follow; Music is fundamental for well growing of children, and during all the life !
A family without music is not a normal family. from France !
What beautiful Heritage., you folks have something to be proud of let me tell you,God Bless you all and the joy that these old videos bring , especially to me as I have been such a Fan of BlueGrass and Hillbilly music, from the Ozarks sins the late 60's
Guido Michael Tabone and from way down in New Zealand....
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!
me siento como si estuviera viendo bonanza o el gran chaparral al oir estas lindas melodias angloparlantes campesinas, me gusta mucho el country, saludos desde Ecuador. I feel like I was watching bonanza or high chaparral to hear these nice English-speaking peasant melodies, I love the country, Greetings from Ecuador.
My dad's dad lived in meridian. He was a mechanic. He used to ho trains and git his legs cut off. He worked as a mechanic at US Motors and when he wanted to get the pressure off his knees with his prothetics, they made him a lift that he could houst himself with and work on a car
Real Country from a real country time. The Carter Family will always be the First Family of Country Music.