Her looks and her expression are of Appalachia. It's hard to explain unless you live here. As she sings she is also singing with her expression and her eyes, a look of pure Appalachia. My grandmothers and aunts & uncles all had this look as well as musical talent, which was one of the few pleasures they had in this life and would often sing songs about the life to come once we leave this earth.

@tylercherneski1805

6 күн бұрын

i read this and Im from western canada. im really curious about what you mean by this "pure appalachia" thing. i know what appalachia is etc but if you could have the time to just type a rant back to me about what exactly you mean by that i would love that. seems like theres some real philosophical undertones to what youre saying. If not philosophical then just something about living in appalachia itself. I can somewhat understand, coming from poor ukrainian farmers in western canada, but I would love for you to expand on what you were talking about there. Im super curious.

This humble, self taught mountain woman invented a new way to play guitar.

@VioletEuphonium

12 күн бұрын

She was not self taught lol. She learned to play guitar from Leslie Riddle, a black man whose Contributions to early country music were ignored for decades.

As a guitarist I’m often asked who some of my favorite guitarists are. I always have Mother Maybelle at the top of my list. More often than not most folks say “I have no idea who that is.” I simply reply with “Have you ever heard of country music?” They all obviously respond with yes of course or something similar. I then finish by saying, “Well she invented it.”

@mavjimbo

8 ай бұрын

The Original Carter Family performances are untouchable

@randyblackburn9765

8 ай бұрын

Earl Scruggs beside her could burn a banjo but was tops on guitar also , I never get tired of the real country music.

@southernpride2003

8 ай бұрын

​@@randyblackburn9765born in Shelby North Carolina right here love me some Earl Scruggs

@brucewinningham4959

7 ай бұрын

"Well she invented it?" Really? I didn't know that!

@unclrogPitcher

7 ай бұрын

reflected it maybe.... it was always there, jimmy rogers... the juke box, radio, and the need for content brought it to a more urban audience...Vernon Dalhart had the first million seller with Wreck of the old 97....

Mother Maybelle is one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

@missamy64

10 ай бұрын

the best 😊

@mavjimbo

8 ай бұрын

Flawless and powerful

@youngc570

6 ай бұрын

I would place her and Duane Allman as the top 2 guitarists of all time.

@PissyKnish

6 ай бұрын

Thats ridiculous. You must know of only 6-7 guitarists lol@@youngc570

@user-cv1xe9yf3f

4 ай бұрын

@@youngc570 Love 'em both, but I gotta go with Derek Trucks, and before him it was the magnificent Johnny Winter. Also a huge fan of Popa Chubby.

Hats off to Momma Maybelle Carter! Her famous "Carter Scratch" is what helped me learn how to play guitar.

She has this crazy drag in her voice that pretends it's coming in late it's mesmerizing. It intices you to pay attention to her voice.

@mavjimbo

7 ай бұрын

Could listen to that accent all day long

@rodneycaupp5962

7 ай бұрын

Good call... great ear. Her guitar style makes plenty of room for her style singing any particular song, but this one in particular.

@youngc570

6 ай бұрын

It may not seem like it, but Wildwood Flowers is a cosmically sad song. I think Maybelle's singing style in this song perfectly conveys that, and this is the best rendition out there.

@abee3515

6 ай бұрын

@@youngc570That thing she does with her timing is unprecedented. It's like she was generations ahead.

@carmenhardy2629

6 ай бұрын

@@abee3515 Didn’t Sara Carter do it too though?

Let’s be thankful that recordings like this were made … AND securely kept for posterity. That’s not always the case, right?

As a child, my dream was to sing Wildwood Flower in a duet with momma Maybelle! 😊❤

She was a gift of God to humanity

@carterfamilychannel

9 ай бұрын

She sure was 🥰

Noone can sing or play this song like Maybelle. Many versions ive heard but none compares.

@JacobWilson-uf6zq

6 ай бұрын

How are you doing today

@JerryPark-np3lu

6 ай бұрын

Hi joy

A few months ago, I decided to learn a bunch of guitar styles from different folk musicians of the 1920s. I got pretty good at a Jimmie Rodgers style and Riley Puckett's style, none of them came as naturally as the Carter scratch.

Mother Maybelle was a huge influence on guitarist to come.

This was my mama’s favorite song. There’s absolutely no one that can do it better than Momma Maybelle Carter!

@tb291

Ай бұрын

Many people can do it better...what a snooze fest.

The Carter Family was my dad's favorite group of all time. I grew up listening to The Carter Family on my mom's and dad's old RCA Victor Victrola. My dad played guitar, banjo, and harmonica and was self-taught on all of them. His guitar playing was patterned after Mother Maybelle. When my dad played The Wildwood Flower, if you closed your eyes you would have sworn it was Mother Maybelle playing. His guitar playing sounded just like hers. I absolutely love this recording. It brings back so many memories. The Carter Family is legendary. They were the first commercial country music artists, I do believe.

My beloved late mother spoke so highly of her grandparents and relatives that had come out west from KY & TN. Mom played guitar and sang to help us kids get to sleep. Our favorite was a song about a feud in which the husband of a lady named Mirandie, ran out of ammo so he substituted her biscuits instead. That didn't work and the poor guy lame ted "Oh, durn yer biscuits, Mirandie! I knew they'd get me by and by!"

Well, Maybell Carter, nicely played. Her strumming on the guitar is unrepeatable. I read nowhere in the history why Maybell preferred the Gibson guitar instead of the Spanish guitar. The famous banjo player Earl Scrugs more or less watches in the background. Mother Maybell and her guitar are a recpectable piece of the country music history.

@carterfamilychannel

4 жыл бұрын

Yes she loved her gibson guitar her husband got for her, its now in the country hall of fame, this was not the original guitar she used back in 1927 she said she could not remember what happened to it.

@mpospisil101

4 жыл бұрын

@@carterfamilychannel And I read in just one article that Maybell received her first guitar as a gift from her parents in 1919 as a ten-year-old girl. The guitar cost $ 19. That's why the numbers remember me well.

@keithchilvers7434

9 ай бұрын

The L5 was Gibson's answer to the quest that had been going on for decades to make a guitar that was loud enough to play with big bands. It has a phenomenal power and tone, almost seeming to have its own built in reverb, and whether jazz or country it was the greatest instrument for recording at that time. Basically it was just top of the range (as was the price). Although we all play dreadnoughts now to me Maybelle's L5 will always be the sound of country music.

@mpospisil101

9 ай бұрын

@@keithchilvers7434 A nice piece of technical history from country music, which was run by mother Maybell with her guitar.

@mavjimbo

7 ай бұрын

She played the very same guitar 🎸 for decades

grew up with this music....01 07 24

@JacobWilson-uf6zq

6 ай бұрын

How are you feeling today

Brings back wonderful memories of childhood in Eastern Kentucky. Sitting in front of the fireplace on a cold winter night listening to the grand ol opry on a battery powered radio while watching the firelight keeping pace dancing round on the rafters. So long ago... !

Many great songs and singers were born of the poor folks in the south. The Carter family was fortunate to be discovered by the world and the world is fortunate to have discovered them.

earl scruggs backup on guitar.

Que elegância para alguém da época dela muito bonito

This is the way things were meant to be played. I see Martha White Hot Rize in the background.

That was her favorite song in those days

@JacobWilson-uf6zq

6 ай бұрын

Hello how are you doing today

What a talent this family had!! Love Mother Maybelle 💕💕💕

Mother Maybelle was the best! ❤

Lady with most beautiful eyes and many a child would call her mom

Mother Maybelle , Musical genius

I love the Queen of old country ❤❤❤

@JacobWilson-uf6zq

6 ай бұрын

Hello how are you doing

She & her daughter's were so talented then when June& Johnny Cash married& they got together singing so AWESOME, ❤❤

A beautiful song

This was the first tune I learned on guitar thirty years ago, it never gets old. Thanks for sharing.

Can you imagine Shania, or her ilk, picking and singing like that? What a great tune. Thanks for posting!

@tb291

Ай бұрын

This singing sucks

So pure. I like hearing her sing this song by herself. I also just noticed how much Helen resembled her mother. ❤

True legend.

so effortless & natural; she developed her own style

If ya play,, then you admire her skill...🎸

The pure definition of Country Music. When it was real and actually had soul. Today's Nashville is stupid

@gp-banjo

2 ай бұрын

I don't even consider the stuff played on today's "country" channels to be real country. It's just Pop, but they add the word whiskey to the lyrics and it somehow qualifies. Or its an endless list of southern clichés.

No me canso de oírte Marbella. Descansa en paz.

God rest all their Souls

When real men n women roamed the earth..beautiful display of the love of Jesus 😊

the best country song ever 🌾

One of my favorite songs ❤

Reminds me so much, listening to the "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band", back in the 'days' xoxox

Now this is country music

love it thanx- wish theres a carter family today...

The 'Carter Scratch'

@frankbennett1409

7 ай бұрын

Great

Mother Maybelle Carter

My precious Moma could play this song just like Mother Maybelle Carter. I love this song! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤l

She's such a pure musician. Beautiful soul.

Sublime

First song I ever learned on guitar. I've never heard any lyrics for it, though!

first Class #1

How she played in chord and rhythm on all strings is wild like she uses banjo techniques with her thumb and pointer finger playing different levels in motion. Incredible. Way before her time.

Carter Family scratch!!! Watching her playing that guitar!!! Beautiful song!!!

Beautiful ♥

How graceful she is! ❤

Fantastic stuff Thanks uploader 👍🍻

Parabéns ❤❤❤❤❤

amazing ❤

@JacobWilson-uf6zq

6 ай бұрын

Hello how are you doing 😊

Mother. Maybelline. Was. My. Uncles. Favorite. 😊

My favorite guitar 🎸 tune. Love it ❤

She almost smiles.

Well said!!

Saw johnny cash in Arkansas back in the early seventies he brought the carter family with him on that tour perfect performance also if anyone remembers the chuck wagon gang was there also

Pretty well perfect

¡Qué dulzura de voz!

F’d up on guitar lead mid-way but recovered nicely! People who don’t play don’t know this but singing and playing at the same time is one of the hardest things to learn. It also can’t be easy on TV like that, especially when you’re alone

@SSearan1

7 ай бұрын

That is why they are professionals

In the early recordings, Sara and AP would harmonize, but only after she had sung a couple words. They seemed timid. My favorite is "happiest days of all".

You could see Earl Scruggs appear behind her

I have read somewhere that Lester Flatt didn't like someone using a Capo on their Instrument, while on his stage, like Mother Maybelle is doing here. It seems like I have seen Earl Scruggs use a Capo while picking the Guitar. Lester also didn't like someone patting their foot to keep Time.

@SSearan1

7 ай бұрын

You get certain sounds with Capos that you can't get using Bar Chords.

@Johnny35130

6 ай бұрын

My father also didn't like it, he called it choking or puttin' a choke on it. But I did it anyway because I was playing those CF songs, and didn't have an autoharp.

@brucewinningham4959

6 ай бұрын

@@Johnny35130 -- Your Dad & Lester also may have went to the same School of Music. LOL I am NOT against Capos but I find it interesting that Lester Flatt was against them. Nevertheless, I still LOVE the Flatt & Scruggs Music. BTW, are you the SAME John Holder I know from Middle Tennessee?

@ricknelson4793

6 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with capos and tapping feet to stay in time. Music is healing play it how it works for you. Peace N Love 🎼

She holds the guitar like it's an autoharp.

Often copied but never duplicated. ❤

Pick that geetar Maybelle! Isn't that Earl Scruggs on the left playing guitar?

Alguien me puede ayudar con la letra de la canción en español. Por favor..

The guitar player on the left looks like Earl Scruggs.

@bruceatnip986

5 ай бұрын

It is.

I'm acquainted with this this method of playing from Tommy Emanuel. When he plays, he looks like he has invented the method. But now I know better.

I like this better when she's using the autoharp

Cousin

Gray one

She looks tough as nails

Poor Wildwood flower

シェアさせて戴きます。

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I just love her but there is a deep sadness in her face. It almost seems like she's dying of cancer or something.

@carterfamilychannel

7 ай бұрын

She was a hard working woman, Sara looked the same.

@carmenhardy2629

6 ай бұрын

Most people looked pretty grim in pictures back then.

Good picking...but she sounds awful sad.

@themermaidstale5008

8 ай бұрын

It’s a sad song.

@wwaynemcg

8 ай бұрын

I still believe she is a better instrumentalist than a vocalist.@@themermaidstale5008

@gp-banjo

7 ай бұрын

is it? I never noticed.@@themermaidstale5008

@user-ff2og2fx3y

7 ай бұрын

@@gp-banjoit’s about being left by a lover. It’s definitely meant to be sad

@youngc570

6 ай бұрын

It's a cosmically sad song about abandonment.

Her playing technique was quite simple..but timely

@deja75m

7 ай бұрын

And an admirable nose structure...yumm

With a wonderful nose structure..beautiful