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Recorded 11/22/29 Atlanta, Ga
5/10/35 New York, NY
These are from the Columbia album CL1664, Flatt & Scruggs, Songs Of The Famous Carter Family, from 1961. Mother Maybelle Carter played autoharp on this album, and Earl played a lot of guitar solos on Maybelle's old arch-top. I learned a lot of my guitar flatpicking from albums like these.....all of which I still have. ( It's why I make sure to keep a turntable machine in these days of CD's & MP3's) Earl did play banjo on this first one : (Note the italicized E7 chord is a "bluegrass picker's" chord, with notes by lead banjo, guitar or dobro, usually omitted by rhythm instruments, who continue in G at this point...upright bass players play an E triad.)
Mike Robertson, Meaford,Ontario,Canada