June Carter Cash

What a way to say goodbye to a country legend. If you are a Carter Family Fan or Country Music Fan, this disc is a must have. This disc is a very well put together package. Thirteen total songs, including 7 of AP Carter's best, some of June's best songs and one song by another writer. The songs are recorded in a sparse informal way, produced by John Carter Cash. Almost everyone in the family is included one way or another. Johnny Cash sings on 3 of the songs. Norman Blake plays some killer guitar. Marty Stuart is include on the disc. It is an enhanced disc which includes lots of the recording sessions, which take place in Johnny and June's bedroom in Hendersonville, TN., The Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, TN. and also in the living room of the Carter Family Home in Mace's Spring's, Virginia.

The booklet insert is awesome, with a long intro by Roseanne Cash, telling many stories about June. Many classic photos, plus a beautiful picture of Johnny and June.

Blended in with the thirteen tunes are a couple of 1940's radio uptakes of the Carter girls before the song. June sometimes gives an intro to the song and talks to the musicians, once Norman Blake (great bluegrass guitarist) asked," You'll tell me when to end the song?" and June playfully says , "I'll tell you when to stop." He was the only musician on that song, "The Cannonball Blues."

The songs (all classics) are done with a deliberate mature confidence. The three songs with Johnny are especially touching "Road To Kaintuck", "Temptation" and how appropriate, "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?"

Other Songs include great version of "Wildwood Flower", "Big Yellow Peaches", "Alcatraz", "Sinking In The Lonesome Sea", "Kneeling Drunkard's Plea", plus four more songs.

In closing, I must say that the Carter Family have built something to last, a goodbye present from June that will live on. Release date for the album is: 9/9/03.