OT: June Carter Cash
Pat Smith
June had a great spirit and spread much joy.
June Carter Cash Dies at 73
May 15, 7:42 PM (ET)
By JOE EDWARDS
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - June Carter Cash, the Grammy-winning scion of
one of country music's pioneering families and the wife of country giant
Johnny Cash, died Thursday of complications from heart surgery. She was 73.
She died at a hospital with her husband of 35 years and family members
at her bedside, manager Lou Robin said. She had been critically ill
after May 7 surgery to replace a heart valve.
A singer, songwriter, musician, actress and author, June Carter Cash
performed with her husband on record and on stage, doing songs like
"Jackson" and "If I Were a Carpenter," which won Grammy awards in 1967
and 1970, respectively. Their duets included "It Ain't Me Babe" in 1964
and "If I Had a Hammer" in 1972.
She was co-writer of her husband's 1963 hit "Ring of Fire," which was
about falling in love with Cash. In his 1997 autobiography, Johnny Cash
described how his wife stuck with him through his years of amphetamine
abuse.
"June said she knew me - knew the kernel of me, deep inside, beneath the
drugs and deceit and despair and anger and selfishness, and knew my
loneliness," he wrote. "She said she could help me. ... If she found my
pills, she flushed them down the toilet. And find them she did; she
searched for them, relentlessly."
June Carter was born June 23, 1929, in Maces Spring, Va. Her mother,
Maybelle Carter, was in the Carter Family music act with her cousin Sara
Carter and Sara's husband, A.P. Carter. In 1927, they made what are
among the first country music recordings.
The family act broke up, but mother and daughters June, Helen and Anita
continued on as Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters, with little June
playing autoharp.
Starting in 1939, the sisters starred in a radio show on XERA in Del
Rio, Texas, that could be heard as far away as Saskatchewan, Canada. The
Carters went on to become staples of the Grand Ole Opry country music
show in Nashville.
The Carters' harmony singing still inspires artists today and Maybelle's
"Carter lick" on the guitar has become one of the most influential
techniques in country music.
In the late 1950s, after her marriage to country singer Carl Smith broke
up, June Carter moved to New York to study acting at the behest of
director Elia Kazan, who had seen her perform while scouting Tennessee
for movie locations.
In 1961, she turned down an offer to work on a variety show that had
Woody Allen as one of the writers, agreeing instead to tour with Johnny
Cash for $500 a week. They married in 1968 after he proposed to her on
stage on London, Ontario.
In a 1987 Associated Press interview, June Carter Cash described her
husband as "probably the most unusual, fine, unselfish person I've known."
"There's a lot of power to him," she said then. "I've seen him on shows
with people with a No. 1 record or a lot of No. 1 records, but when John
walks on that stage, the rest of 'em might as well leave."
In 1999, she released an acoustic album, "Press On," that amounted to a
musical autobiography and won her another Grammy. The album, her first
in a quarter-century, followed her career from its beginning through her
then 31-year marriage and collaboration with Cash.
"There's a lot of people who I love - fans that I've known through the
years - who will be glad I did it," she said about the album at the
time. "And maybe some other people ... wonder what Johnny Cash's wife is
really like."
In 1979, she wrote an autobiography, "Among My Klediments," and released
"From the Heart," a memoir, in 1987.
June Carter Cash did occasional acting roles, including the part of
Robert Duvall's mother in the 1997 film "The Apostle." With her husband,
she periodically performed at Billy Graham crusades.
Johnny and June Carter Cash had a son, John Carter Cash, in 1970. She
was also the mother of country singer Carlene Carter, whose father was
Smith, and singer Rosanne Cash is her stepdaughter.
Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
Larry Camp
Pat,
Okay. I give. What's the "Carter lick"? It sounds important, I must know it!!!:)
Larry Camp
www.larrycamp.com
Oscar Bearinger
LARRY...@msn.comP says...
> Pat,
>
>Okay. I give. What's the "Carter lick"? It sounds important, I must know
it!!!:)
>
>Larry Camp
I'm sure you know it in your bones, Larry, as it is fundamental to American
music. Having started out with the Carters and Jimmie Rodgers in my own
musical journey, I pulled out my acoustic and the lick (one of its many
variations) might be something like this:
(forgive my transcription- not sure how to write this)
In key of C, single note run at end of song (sorta turnaround)
C / D (hammer on) > E / G (hammer-on) > A / C
Listen to any Carter record and you'll recognize it instantly.
Pat and others can add stuff to this, I'm sure.
Our thoughts need to be with THE MAN, Johnny Cash, today.
Oscar
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Pat Smith
MBR
> In article <d1e9c337.03051...@posting.google.com>,
> LARRY...@msn.comP says...
>
> > Pat,
> >
> >Okay. I give. What's the "Carter lick"? It sounds important, I must know
> it!!!:)
> >
> >Larry Camp
>
> I'm sure you know it in your bones, Larry, as it is fundamental to American
> music. Having started out with the Carters and Jimmie Rodgers in my own
> musical journey, I pulled out my acoustic and the lick (one of its many
> variations) might be something like this:
>
> (forgive my transcription- not sure how to write this)
>
> In key of C, single note run at end of song (sorta turnaround)
>
> C / D (hammer on) > E / G (hammer-on) > A / C
>
> Listen to any Carter record and you'll recognize it instantly.
>
> Pat and others can add stuff to this, I'm sure.
>
>
> Our thoughts need to be with THE MAN, Johnny Cash, today.
>
> Oscar
I believe you are describing the "Flatt" run...popularized by Lester
Flatt . It's a staple tag lick in the bluegrass rhythm section. It
usually starts on low G and goes up an octave more or less in the
manner you described.
The Carter "scratch" as it is sometimes called, is a style where the
melody is played on the lower strings and the rhythm is strummed
(usually) in eighth notes on the treble strings. Wildwood Flower is
THE classic song in that style. The Carter style strum is basic to
old-time country acoustic guitar. Don't mean to sound like a know it
all, but I recently finished editing a book on this style. It's a very
simple and evocative way to play.
-Mark
Jerry Freedman
> LARRY...@msn.comP says...
>
> > Pat,
> >
> >Okay. I give. What's the "Carter lick"? It sounds important, I must know
> it!!!:)
> >
> >Larry Camp
>
> I'm sure you know it in your bones, Larry, as it is fundamental to American
> music. Having started out with the Carters and Jimmie Rodgers in my own
> musical journey, I pulled out my acoustic and the lick (one of its many
> variations) might be something like this:
>
> (forgive my transcription- not sure how to write this)
>
> In key of C, single note run at end of song (sorta turnaround)
>
> C / D (hammer on) > E / G (hammer-on) > A / C
>
> Listen to any Carter record and you'll recognize it instantly.
>
> Pat and others can add stuff to this, I'm sure.
>
>
> Our thoughts need to be with THE MAN, Johnny Cash, today.
>
> Oscar
>
Dirt Band album "Will the Circle be Unbroken"
J. Freedman
MBR
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She did a great version of tune called "My Baby Thinks He's a Train"
with Albert Lee on guitar. Nice recording!
Mondoslug1
My tunes at:
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Pat Smith
his pickin' on Luxury Liner by Emmy Lou (that was him..wasn't it?)
MBR
> That was Rosanne, just to clarify. On the Albert Lee thing I also loved
> his pickin' on Luxury Liner by Emmy Lou (that was him..wasn't it?)
Right you are.. Yes, I believe it was albert playing on Luxury Liner.
Quite a player!