Mother Maybelle and The Carter Sisters Foggy Mountain Top

[@ablake2934]

My mom went to the lord 14 yesterday ago 100 yrs ❤❤❤ I'm playing this song for her. GOD BLESS YOU MOM ❤❤❤

[@JustAThought155]

Listen to MAYBELLE PLAY THAT GUITAR!!! LORD!!! She was soooooo gifted and without ANY self-centered antics!!! The master just PLAYED!!! Listen to that tempo! No one could keep that speed...and sing!!! That’s mountain music skills ‘rit-there!!!

[@keffinmckn3602]

Cute

[@MomoBaileybutt]

If she were a man, she would have been lauded!!

[@jimmyvann1238]

She was the Eddie Van Halen before the Eddie Van Halen. She introduced a style never seen before she came along.

[@ITILII]

Country music's greatest artists: Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family and Johnny Cash......all absolute LEGENDS !!!!!!!!!!!

[@shannonburns6724]

The Stonemans, Marion Try Slaughter, Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Shannon Grayson, give these folks a listen.

[@peterakachukwu4951]

Jim reeves the main

[@mullerk2]

Anita - the voice of an Angel. Mother Maybelle - innovative and incredible guitar player; soulful singer. June - so charismatic. Helen, musicianship par excellance. Just love the Carters.

[@HAL-dm1eh]

Who is the one behind them picking the cello (don't know the country name for it)? It seems she is never mentioned.

[@HAL-dm1eh]

Nevermind, I found out it was Becky Bowman who offered to play bass for them and wound up being a part of the Carter Sisters show performances for around 4 years.

[@peanutbuttachelly3544]

@@HAL-dm1ehif I recall correctly, she was a cousin of theirs

[@laqbobby5900]

Oh my dear Lord, Anita Carter's voice is pure magic

[@gmancrw1552]

Anita's just voice blows everyone away...

[@GeorgiaShootersGroup]

This kind of home grown talent no longer exists in corporate music America, period. And those who are decent are just a cheap copy. Music belongs among the people, on front porches, and around the camp fire.

[@norahe1953]

This was a time when musicians didn’t make much and didn’t expect me to be rich from singing. They created music because it was their passion

[@rbyledbal]

This is a true representation of live talent. No mixing boards, muliple tracks, voice overs, or auto tuners. Just beautiful!!

[@jamesfetherston1190]

There is an additional guitar player not shown on camera. I do wonder if it is Chet Atkinson who got his start with the Carter Family.

[@marksman48]

Mother Maybelle is a guitar shredder! Mad Skills!

[@jamesfetherston1190]

The solo is done by a another guitar player off-camera.

[@GauntLife]

I don't care what anybody says, imo Maybelle Carter is the greatest guitar player to ever live. Self taught and effortlessly makes impossible strumming techniques she invented look easy.

[@rodneycampbell3825]

GauntLife she wasn't self taught I don't recall the name but her like quite a few folk/country artists learned ironically through a black person particularly bluesmen really

[@thepincushionman7063]

Not really Rodney. Of course she picked up this and that from here and there but she was self taught. Btw I was raised around them.

[@rodneycampbell3825]

Jason D yeah she she was however look up Leslie riddle she had an influence on the whole family

[@idesdemona2336]

Yes -- she was self-taught and - Yes -- Leslie Riddle taught her some of what he was doing and then she also added to the styles she picked-up both on the guitar and auto-harp. She also frequently mentioned Riddle and his influence on her. All 3 original Carters were great and so important in American music. ;Mother Maybell stayed at it longer than the other 2 and then taught and raised her 3 dts to continue on.

[@robertsherrill7986]

GauntLife. Your exactly right my fellow country music lover this is 1 talented family no doubt then add Big Bad John!!! Perfection !!!!!! Peace brother !!!! RS

[@lindaberg1695]

Mother Maybelle was fantastic, and look at her play that Gibson L5....Fabulous!

[@parkersmith7611]

Hi Linda ...maybelle is way too talented and creative she handles the Gibson L5 like she was born to do this shit...i love the energy

[@coyotesong]

June sure has that pixie fun quality....Anita is still the Appalachian Angel with her beautiful voice and so, so pretty

[@caracarson5205]

One of the missing was either June or Anita. Suspect it was June.

[@stefanhamilton8713]

Mother Maybelle’s right hand work. Magnificent!

[@ronaldt491]

Check out a video of Lester Flatt. No doubt who he learned from!!

[@glenhenning9261]

Just loving this! I'm 100% yankee, but I must have been a southerner in a previous lifetime. I'm a pedal steel player, jammin bluegrass and western swing is my thing, just fabulous!

[@mojorayjones]

We owe so much to this family. Thanks for all the hard work put in on the road, and the studio. You will never be forgotten.

[@daanje1062]

I believe all these Carter sisters died young. Thankfully we have youtube to keep them in our memory. Such beautiful music.

[@alcoleman5261]

I saw Johnny Cash and the Carters in Honolulu in 1970. Great entertainers and great people.

[@kickstar126]

Listening to Maybelle play guitar I am amazed by her style and talent, she plays lead and rhythm at one and the same time, even though its like listening to two guitar players. it is just her playing.

[@jamesfetherston1190]

There is another player off camera. It might be Chet Atkinson, who got his start with the Carter Family. The solo is played by the other player, and you can see at the very end Maybelle end her playing while the off-camera player does a single note run.

[@quailshootr6389]

Beautiful Anita would be almost 90 yrs old now.

[@atheling1066]

I just received Anita's Ring Of Fire CD and played it all the way home, reduced me to tears it was so beautiful, but if Helen & June had Anita's voice, it would be a choir not a group, All three sisters had their own huge talents but together they exceeded the sum of the parts. Anita was the soul, Helen the mind and the heart, June the energy and the humour. The Carter Family from AP to Carlene was never about one individual but the ongoing tradition and family love. So here's to AP, Sara, Mother Maybelle, Helen, June, Anita, Lorrie, Carlene, Rosie and all the others and to all those associated with them. With Love

[@robertsuhrer5604]

The Carter Family always puts me in a good mood...

[@tonylupo1764]

Maybelles mother played banjo and one of her brothers helped her to play banjo and she played that before she played guitar. She adapted her banjo playing into her own style guitar as what is referred to as the "Carter Scratch" She did meet Leslie aka Eslee Riddle when AP brought him back to Maces Springs and she learned some blues licks from Eslee. And she used them licks in some songs mainly the Wabash Cannonball. Yea I meant the Cannonball Blues ! In her interview she says she learned some blues licks from Eslee. But Maybelle was a pioneer guitarist and self taught and is arguably.one of the greatest guitarists !

[@TheJamesOPhillips]

He taught her some of the bluesy picking she used on Cannonball blues during the solo parts, as well as the slide guitar work she used on some of the earlier records like the originals of Little Darling Pal of Mine, Foggy Mountain Top, Sweet Fern etc.

[@WilliamJusticeVEVO]

1:12 Maybelle: “Alright, girls… my turn. Let me show you how it’s done.“

[@larrylishman6038]

Go back in the hole then you're done!

[@robertsherrill7986]

The roots of the great Appalachian music straight from the heart folks doing what came natural !!! Peace. RS

[@Brace67]

Great performance from long ago. Talent and beauty combined. Love to see Mother Maybelle play the guitar as only she can. Beautiful June Carter in the ensemble.

[@sleeplessingc]

Omg. Anita Carter. Her voice was liquid gold.

[@rjr7752]

These girls are absolutely awesome.

[@markmoody9519]

How can Country Music get any better than "The Carter Family!" The very best! T. Mark Moody - Turner, Maine USA 04282

[@GingerGilligan]

All of the ladies are great singers, but when it was Anita's turn, WOW! Just amazing!

[@abvansanten4501]

GingerGilligan

[@dollypartonandjunecarter8438]

I felt that way when it was June's part.

[@genevestal9740]

Absolutely FABULOUS as always, but was with June? She had a different dress from all of the others and just appeared for her solo??

[@censusgary]

Anita was the best!

[@raulandrickydesigns]

@@genevestal9740 June was always like the comedy/announcer of the group and would join for songs in between. Always stood out from the others personality wise, my favorite Carter sister.

[@lolotaeja3911]

Absolutely incredible. Maybelle and her girls. Your ears are in the presence of exceptionalism.

[@kirkscobey3031]

Shared this with my Dad. I have his record collection now. He has written on one of them a request to be buried with this album! He's not there yet though.

[@scottrussell8139]

beautiful ladies with fantastic voices,,, june looks just like her momma

[@corneliadenninger5395]

Hey, June isn't part of this performance. Just mentioning.

[@wmoday]

Wonderful to see these clips. I am glad to see Becky Bowman on upright bass. This is the Rebecca that June named Rebecca Carlene Smith (Carlene Carter) after. Great video...

[@jameswallace3043]

Serious so beautiful and miss perspective moment in her vocal skills are at her prime time in life this is something that multitudes of people appreciate

[@Bliggick]

Maybelle's the original guitar hero! And, oh yeah, she was tuning down her guitar decades before the grunge guys starting doing it.

[@msoyuzpictures8790]

que hermosa música..un saludo desde américa del sur..!

[@roman14032]

maybelle carter basicaly invented country music as a viable segment of the music buisness. thats just the plain truth they all owe her, big time

[@lolotaeja3911]

Exactly. Yet you hear so little about her.

[@genedolen9166]

She actually copied the style from Lesley Riddle, who played with the family 1920s.

[@flautalee3090]

I love how in this video the Carter sisters and Mother Maybelle each have solos, and of course, Maybelle plays a verse on guitar, playing melody and rhythm simultaneously. Maybelle was a «tween» when she learned this way of guitar picking from Leslie Riddle. In one video that I viewed, she credits him with showing her how to do this. Leslie Riddle lived with AP Carter’s family at times and travelled all over the South with him in the early 20th Century. He and AP Carter were “song finders.” AP copyrighted these songs, which became the Carter catalog and which are covered by country and folk musicians to this day. Today the copyright would certainly have been shared by AP Carter and Leslie Riddle. Maybelle popularized the idea that melody could be played on guitar. Previously the guitar was only a rhythm instrument; a violin or mandolin, and possibly banjo (please check me on this) played the melody line. We’ve now come to expect someone in a country or rock group to play lead guitar. In what became known as «The Carter Scratch,» both melody and rhythm are played by a single guitar player (and by a woman, no less!). Maybelle, her daughter Helen, and granddaughter Carlene mastered this technique. I find it amazing that Leslie Riddle’s instruction and Maybelle Carter’s recordings led to lead guitar becoming a part of country and rock music.

[@ihatedinonuggets]

@@flautalee3090Both of you are wrong. She did not know Lesley Riddle in her tweens, and she came up with the style on her own. She did learn a style that was heavily inspired by Lesley, a style different to her own. She had three distinct styles of playing, her own technique (she used this one the most, she developed it before meeting Mr Riddle), flat picking, and Lesley's style of playing which she adapted. The Carter's met Lesley after their first recordings. She played in his style on certain songs (Lonesome For You, Cannonball Blues, etc.) but this song, and most of her other songs are of her own invention stylistically. She absolutely credits him where she can, but she never credited him with what you said she did. There's a noticeable difference between her Carter Scratch style and Lesley's style. I love both but it isn't helpful to spread misinformation, especially when most of what you're saying is objectively wrong.

[@flautalee3090]

@@ihatedinonuggets Please forgive me if I was wrong. My understanding is that AP Carter traveled with Leslie Riddle, song catching. Also that Leslie Riddle stayed at the AP Carter home in VA. I appreciate your filling in gaps in my knowledge.

[@dennisjeffs4239]

From the original Carter family of AP, Sara and Maybelle to Sara's children Janette and Joe, Maybelle's daughters Helen, June and Anita, all the third generation grandchildren, the Carter family including Johnny Cash must without doubt be the largest family of Country & Western singers who just ooze talent and harmony ever recorded. Listen hard to the lyrics, every song tells a story with a powerful message and and for more than 70 years I have enjoyed their music.

[@39thala]

Yep, and I believe that's Janette on standup bass.

[@mvl6827]

39thala no not Janette on bass

[@kevinlee9751]

Dennis Jeffs Simply Timeless,

[@kevinbradshaw9715]

Dennis Jeffs i

[@genedolen9166]

Carlene Carter Roseanne Cash Rodney Crowell Nick Lowe.

[@alexandraasbury9974]

This is such an exciting find!! Thank you. I have become, just recently, a real fan of June Carter Cash. She only made Johnny an even greater musician and man than he already was.

[@georelbonai8244]

Wow, what a beautiful ladies😍

[@mollybrowne4460]

I love this song!!!!

[@jamespruett7447]

Becky Bowman on bass fiddle. Not related to the Carters.

[@bluephalanx]

i could tell lol.....

[@CHIEFSWIFE1998]

Beautiful stuff God bless you all ❤️❤️🎸🎸🎸

[@davidpreston7819]

Hello Carola, 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😊🌹

[@JDubG123]

Once you start listening to this family of musicians, others pale by comparison, and what you're into musically will cease to matter. I could be wrong except in my own case.

[@DChristina]

Jerry D'Arezzo - oh I completely agree! Happened to me once I started listening to the Carter family. I always loved Johnny Cash so naturally started listening further.

[@lagaman11]

So good to hear real music!

[@thomcalhoun6341]

If some asks me who my favorite guitar player is? I always answer Miss Maybelle Carter. If you don’t play guitar you might not know what she’s doing. She’s playing a bass part with her thumb, a melody with her index finger while playing chords with her remaining three fingers. That’s right up there with Chopin! Oh, and she’s doing that while singing lead and or harmony vocals. No tricks! No pedals on the floor! No auto- tune. No backing tracks.

[@richardmitchell2527]

My Mom and Dad used to go see Moma Mabell & The Carter Sisters on West Broad street in Richmond many years ago

[@cityzen2717]

June is too cute with that almost-smirk.

[@mollybrowne4460]

Mother Maybelle on guitar, Becky Bowman on bass, Anita singing, Helen on accordian, and June is the one who came in and went out

[@chrisbrown1349]

Anita winked at me!

[@joeguajardo5092]

I love 💕 this ladies country gold

[@guntherzaruba2891]

so lovely and fantastic musicians

[@robinjohnson1485]

When taking accordian lessons years ago, my teacher would of had a heart attack if I closed a song with my bellows wide open. I noticed Anita did this too... oh well... just an observation. Thanks

[@biancatellington85]

Robin Johnson That’s not Anita. Anita sang the solo right after June. The accordion player was Helen. And she was totally self taught. I saw an interview with her and she told how her mom gave her the accordion and told her to learn how to play it. She learned to play it upside down with the chord buttons on the right. They went to play a gig and someone told her she was playing it upside down. She turned it around and had to learn all over again! But honestly, this entire family was so freaking naturally talented. Music was born in them.

[@Jonny3rd]

@@biancatellington85 The person that told her she was playing it upside down was Pee Wee King. Helen told this story in an interview.

[@wespaul9345]

No wonder ol Johnny went nuts over June.

[@sleeplessingc]

Oh yes.... I agree. She was the sun and moon rising and setting in his world.

[@cqwickedwake7651]

Im from EU, watching this after 10 years, god do they sound great and god has the time gone by both for me and them 😂😅

[@larrylishman6038]

Real Country Music! Hey Taylor Swift, you can not come close to the Carters!

[@gheffz]

Amen!

[@tomcooper6108]

Mother Mayball was great on that guitar! She kept those girls in line too.

[@gregorylincoln4328]

Dottie west side when Anita would sing at the Ryman she sounded like an angel.

[@the_ultracheese67]

An interesting thing about this song is that there are versions of the songs House Of The Rising Sun and Where Did You Sleep Last Night (both made popular by blues musician Lead Belly) that contain both the “If I’d only listened to what my mama said I would not be here today” and “Oh she caused me to weep and she caused me to mourn/She caused me to leave my home” verses respectively. So I wonder if A.P Carter found the lyrics to these lyrics to these songs and used them in this song (as he was fond of doing) or if this is the original source of those lyrics and Leadbelly heard a version of Foggy Mountain Top and decided to reinterpret the verses. Or maybe these are just old traditional lyrics common to many folk songs of the era.

[@edwardk6464]

that's so interesting! I think there were a lot of common lyrics in folk songs from the era. in the carter family's "cannonball" they sing "you can wash my jumper, starch my overalls, catch the train they call the cannonball" - I also heard that lyric in the blues song Riverside Blues by Sam Collins! and apparenty the "it takes a worried man to sing a worried song" lyric from Worried Man Blues can be found in a good few different places. it's fascinating how folk music used to travel and adapt like that.

[@michaelrosendahl5770]

Mother Maybelle... God damn. Her middle name should be: Mother of countryrockmetalandawesomef...inggreatguitarplaying. A source of inspiration for me. Greetings from Sweden.

[@StephenS-2024]

Who's that poor purty girl out front? Think she needs some Cash.

[@bluephalanx]

please tell me that was a joke if so it was terrible

[@Anna-loves-you]

Anita. The voice of an Angel 😅

[@marlenaAKAmarz]

The way she snaps n kicks YYAASS 💃🏽👑💃🏽👑💃🏽👑💃🏽👑

[@edithalemm2604]

Sooo klar und sooo schön. Danke. Lg

[@chiefbubba2581]

They sound good and home girl playing that guitar lol

[@Interandd]

Cud! To jest prawdziwy Cud Boski! Sława IM wieczysta.

[@carlahubbs3602]

Their harmony is so great

[@davidpreston7819]

Hello Carla, 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😊🌹

[@jamesbollhoefer6447]

It's got a a good beat, and I can dance to it! :)

[@dollypartonandjunecarter8438]

Love the Carter Sisters. Especially June.

[@thepincushionman7063]

God bless who ever recorded this.

[@carlahubbs4347]

They have such great Harmony

[@juan58102]

I would like to cook a very very nice food for these girls and eat it with them.. Greetings from Arica Chile

[@JudoChamp]

That is awesome! What would you cook?

[@classickruzer1]

Nice thought but I think they're all deceased

[@bethmccormack7069]

that's the sweetest comment i've ever seen on here.

[@donaldbickford665]

Juan Salinas flatt and scrugg

[@musicanochita]

Chile is a wonderful country.

[@cityzen2717]

Junie makes me smile.

[@jameswallace3043]

Top quality bluegrass country music

[@robertsherrill7986]

Mother Maybelles scratch was mimicked by the greatest guitar players that ever hit the stage FACT LOOK IT UP !!!! PEACE. RS

[@bluephalanx]

not don everly (got you there)

[@billrener4897]

Blue Phalanx is an interesting name. I think it's probably a reference to a Spanish organization of some decades ago.

[@raphaelbernard7954]

Mother Maybelle a guitar pioneer in Chet Atkins class. He worked for them in the 50's? probably learnt heaps from her

[@michaelerickson3301]

Raphael Bernard When June was asked about her own guitar playing, she said "When you stand between Chet Atkins and Mother Maybelle, you learn to play the right chords."

[@bismarckrock007]

THE CARTER FAMILY “FOGGY MOUNTAIN TOP” If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the west I'd sail around this whole wide world To the girl I love the best If I had listened what mama says I would not have been here today A-lying around this old jail house A-weeping my sweet life away If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the west I'd sail around this whole wide world To the girl I love the best She’s caused me to weep, she's caused me to mourn She caused me to leave my home For the lonesome pine and the good old times I'm on my way back home If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the west I'd sail around this whole wide world To the girl I love the best Oh, if you see that girl of mine There's something you must tell her She need not be foolin' no time away To court some other feller If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the west I'd sail around this whole wide world To the girl I love the best Oh, when you go a-courtin' I'll tell you how to do Pull off that long-tailed roustabout Put on your navy blue If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the west I'd sail around this whole wide world To the girl I love the best. Yeah, oh-lay-ee-oh, lee-oh-la-ee-ay Lee-oh-lay-ee, lay-ee, oh-lay-ee. 👍🏻🎸✌🏻

[@kevinbrown3907]

Great song, who else is singing with maybelle

[@angrylambie]

Go Maybelle!

[@NebukedNezzer]

It does not get better than this.

[@geo2301able]

Couldn't agree with you more...Too bad we can't force kids between 12 and 18 to listen to this and lots more like it to understand what real "music" sounds like!

[@waldemarakrapsata8406]

Nebýt filmu Walk the line,tak jsem o sestrách nevěděla.Johnnyho Cashe jsem měla ráda,ale nic jsem o něm nevěděla.Sestry Cartrovi a jejich úžasná matka jsou TOP❤❤❤❤

[@Shepthebassman91]

Beautiful Mother Maybelle is just timeless country pickin'! who's playing bass though? I know that Anita played stand up bass with them....but here she's just singing.....great harmonies....classic carter family stuff! Great post!

[@tjoelfoster]

Becky Bowman

[@Shepthebassman91]

@@tjoelfoster Ah yes! Thank you for the info!

[@bethmccormack7069]

omg

[@davidpreston7819]

Hello , 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😊🌹

[@ruthdixon7807]

this has been covered by everyone from blue-grass kings flatt and scruggs to irish soulman van morrison. but this remains the greatest version.

[@oliverbohlender8746]

Becky Bowman - fantastic!

[@davidpreston7819]

Hello Oliver, 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😊🌹

[@moboutmen]

Helen looks lika a lot of fun.

[@lacasaroja4756]

Amazing music!

[@TonySkyRush]

Yea it seems Anita was the youngest and just happy to be part of the Carter tradition,They were just good ole folks from Virginia that enjoyed singing and loved the stage but didn't gold dig. Although I like them all especially together.Anita stands out on every recording and was clearly the most gifted vocally natural.Going back and listening to these recordings is really a joy. June was really funny and talented and Helen was the closest to her mother and of course Mother M was the legend.

[@austinteutsch]

Pure talent. No wonder Johnny went crazy of these women.

[@SHININGSTAR-iz9dj]

Real, raw music. At its best❤

[@p666rax2]

One of the best female guitarists ever ......

[@SharmishthaBasu]

beautiful artists.

[@davidpreston7819]

Hello , 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😊🌹

[@SharmishthaBasu]

@@davidpreston7819 hi david, I am from kolkata, you can call me a country fan without least hesitation, they are my favorites, even in indian music the only songs I love as much as them are a special genre, songs written by poet rabindranath tagore. I am doing fine, hope all is great there too.

[@flowerpower3618]

So much to look forward to back then.

[@shannonburns6724]

People, you just got taken to school right there. Legends sing legendrary. Oh if we could only pick 1/5 as good as Maybelle?

[@elizabethwalker205]

They are the best.

[@davidpreston7819]

Hello Elizabeth, 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😊🌹

[@bobbeck2743]

Helen Carter the beautiful Sister

[@Mandolin1944]

It always makes me wonder why they did not feature Anita more than June. June was a fine singer and entertainer and all but none of the other girls could match Anita -- she was in a class by herself.

[@censusgary]

It's true, Anita was a natural lead singer.

[@coyotesong]

Gary Cooper Totally, it was all about Anita for me. What a pretty lady with an unbelievably gorgeous voice.

[@charleslabry7944]

Johnny Cash said that Anita was the top of the top, and he was right

[@timwhitmore7]

Mandolin1944 June was like a front man in a rock band though, a true entertainer. Might have the weakest voice but she’s the most natural on a stage. Love Anita more though ha

[@nickholcroft]

I like when June says "feller."

[@im1sinfulman]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING,