私がカーターファミリーの音楽に出会ったのは1964年でした。 それはタイトル 「'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia」というBury Me Under The Weeping Willow を含む全16曲のレコードでした。 バージニアの 大地と思われるジャケットとともに聞こえてきた印象深い音楽は1920年代30年代のアパラチア南部の 姿であり人々の生活の歌でした。 そして今日のブルーグラスミュージックの基盤となったカーターファ ミリーの音楽はマウンテンクラシックとして愛唱され続けています。 1927年8月1日 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow のレコーディングからスタートしたカーターファミリ ーソングの録音曲数は14年間で約300曲になると云われています。私が今まで聴いてきたカーターフ ァミリーソングを整理してみました。 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow カーターファミリーを代表する曲でありまたカーターファミリー最初の録音でもあるBury Me Under The Weeping Willow は私が以降カーターファミリーの音楽を聴き続けるきっかけになった曲です。 イギリス のバラッドThe Willowを原歌としているこの曲、カーターファミリーはドライブのかかったアップテンポで 一気に歌い上げる というスタイルで 悲しみのメッセージを 表現しています。 カーターファミリーによっ て世に出され多くのグループによっていろいろなスタイルで歌われそして演奏されています。 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willowは私たちがKentucky Ramblersというバンドをつくり 最初に出演し た演奏会で歌った思い出の曲です。

A Distant Land To Roam Amber Tresses Anchored In Love Answer To Weeping Willow Are You Lonesome Tonight? Are You Tired Of Me My Darling Away Out On The Old Saint Sabath Bear Creek Blues Beautiful Home Beautiful Isle O'er The Sea Behind Those Stone Walls Black Jack David Blackie's Gunman Bonny Blue Eyes Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy To Me Bring Back My Boy Broken Hearted Love Broken Hearted Lover Buddies In The Saddle Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow By The Touch Of Her Hand Can The Circle Be Unbroken Cannon Ball Blues Can't Feel At Home Carter's Blues Cathering Flowers From The Hillside Charlie And Nellie Chewing Gum Coal Miner's Blues Cowboy Jack Cowboy's Wild Song To His Herd Cuban Soldier Dark And Stormy Weather Dark Haired True Lover Darling Daisies Darling Nellie Across The Sea Diamonds In The Rough Don't Forget Me Little Darling Don't Forget This Song Dying Soldier East Virginia Blues No2 Engine One Forty Three Faded Coat Of Blue Farewell Nellie Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room Fond Affection Forsaken Love Funny When You Feel That Way Give Him One More As He Goes Give Me Roses While I Live Give Me Your Love And I'll Give You Mine Glory To The Lamb God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign Gold Watch And Chain Goodbye To The Plains Gospel Ship Happiest Days Of All Happy In The Prison Happy Or Lonesome He Never Came Back He Took A White Rose From Her Hair Heaven's Radio Hello Central! Give Me Heaven Hello Stranger Hold Fast To The Right Home By The Sea Honey In The Rock I Ain't Goin' To Work Tommorrow I Found You Among The Roses I Have An Aged Mother I Have No One To Love Me I Loved You Better Than You Knew I Never Loved But One I Will Never Marry I Wouldn't Mind Dying If One Won't Another One Will I'll Be All Smiles Tonight I'll Be Home Some Day I'll Never Forsake You I'm Thinking Of My Blue Eyes I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes I'm Working On A Building In A Little Village Churchyard In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain In The Shadow Of The eyes In The Valley Of The Shenandoah It Is Better Farther On It'll Aggravate Your Soul It's A long Road To Travel Alone Jealous Hearted Me Jim Blake's Message Jimmie Brown The Newsboy Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man Just A Few More Days Just Another Broken Heart Keep On The Firing Line Keep On The Sunny Side Kissing Is A Crime Kitty Waltz Lay My Head Beneath The Rose Let The Church Roll On Let'd Be Lovers Again Little Black Train Little Darling Pal Of Mine Little Joe Little Log Cabin By The Sea Little Moses Little Poplar Log House On The Hill Lonesome For You Darling Lonesome For You Lonesome Homesick Blues Lonesome Pine Special Lonesome Valley Longing For Old Virginia Look Away From The Cross Look How This World Has Made A Change Lord I'm In Your Care Lover's Lane Lovers Return Lulu Walls

March Winds Goin' To Blow My Blues All Away Meet Me By The Moonlight Alone Meeting In The Air Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia Motherless Children My Clinch Mountain Home My Dixie Darling My Hearts Tonight In Texas My Home Among The Hills My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains My Honey Lou My Little Home In Tennessee My Native Home My Old Cottage Home My Old Virginia Home My Texas Girl My Virginia Rose Is Blooming Never Let The Devil Get The Upper Hand Of You No Depression No More The Moon Shines On Lorena No Other's Bride I'll Be No Telephone In Heaven On A Hill Lone And Gray On My Way To Cannan's Land On Take Me Back On The Rock Where Moses Stood On The Sea Of Galilee One Little Word Over The Garden Wall Picture On The Wall Reckless Motorman River Of Jordan Room In Heaven For Me Sad And Lonesome Day Sailor Boy Sea Of Galilee See That My Grave Is Kept Green Single Girl Married Girl Sinking In The Lonesome Sea Something Got A Hold Of Me Sow Em On The Mountain St Regious Girl Stern Old Bachelor Sunshine In The Mountain Sweet As The Flowers In Maytime Sweet Fern Sweet Heaven In My View Tell Me That You Love Me The Birds were Singing Of You The Broken Down Tramp The Cannonball The Carter Family And Jimmie Rodgers In Texas The Church In The Wildwood The Cyclone Of Rye Cove The Dying Mother The East Virginia Blues The Evening Bells Are Ringing The Fate Of Dewey Lee The Foggy Mountain Top The Girl On The Greenbrier Shore The Grave On The Green Hillside The Heart That Was Broken For Me The Homestead On The Farm The Last Move For Me The Little Girl That Played On My Knee The Little Long Hut In The Lane The Lover's Farewell The Mountains Of Tennessee The Only Girl The Poor Orphan Child The Rambling Boy The Spirit Of Love Watches Over Me The Storms Are On The Ocean The Sun Of The Soul The Wandering Boy The Wave On The Sea The Wayworn Traveller The Winding Stream The Wonderful City There'll Be Joy,Joy,Joy There'll Be No Distinction There There's No Hiding Place Down Here There's No One Like Mother To Me There's Someone Awaiting For Me They Call Her Mother This Is Like Heaven To Me Two Sweethearts Wabash Cannonball Walking In The King's Highway We Shall Rise We Will March Through The Streets Of The City Weary Prodigal Son Western Hobo When I'm Gone When Silver Threads Are Gold Again When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland When The Springtime Comes Again When The World's On Fire When This Evening Sun Goes Down Where Shall I Be? Where The silvery Colorado Wends Its Way Where We'll Never Grow Old Who's That Knocking At My Window Why Do You Cry Little Darling Why There's A Tear In My Eye Wildwood Flower Will My Mother Know Me There? Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven Will You Miss me When I'm Gone Worried Man Blues You Are My Flower You Better Let That Liar alone You Denied Your Love Young Freda Bolt Your Mother Still Prays You're Nothing More To Me You've Been A Friend To Me You've Been Fooling Me Baby You've Got To Righten That Wrong

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