Canard
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A minor recording star of the 1930s and onward.
Carter was sort of the real meal deal for roots hard knocks country. He ran away from home in 1920 at age 15, worked as a lumberjack, and travelled around by jumping trains. He would sing with the hobos in the boxcars he was travelling in. He worked for quite some time as cowboy. Singing and guitar playing lifted him out of this particular itinerant life style and into another, that of a professional musician.
He had his own CBS country music radio show from 1934 to 1940, broadcast out of New York City.
He was immensely popular in his day, but not all music is successfully trans-historical, i.e. being able to survive changes in fashion and taste over generations.
He was noted for his unique yodelling style, But yodelling is something that has most definitely fallen out of fashion in roots, folk, and country music.
Most of his music now sounds very, very cornball. In thrift stores, record collectors looking vintage country cannot wash their hands quickly enough if they accidentally touch one of Carter's albums.
However, I have always liked this particular tune, My Little Yoho Lady.
The Original
Used in a candy bar ad in a very appropriate setting
Carter is not completely forgotten. The young, Stephanie Westdal, does a lovely cover of My Little Yoho Lady, replete with yodelling.
Carter was sort of the real meal deal for roots hard knocks country. He ran away from home in 1920 at age 15, worked as a lumberjack, and travelled around by jumping trains. He would sing with the hobos in the boxcars he was travelling in. He worked for quite some time as cowboy. Singing and guitar playing lifted him out of this particular itinerant life style and into another, that of a professional musician.
He had his own CBS country music radio show from 1934 to 1940, broadcast out of New York City.
He was immensely popular in his day, but not all music is successfully trans-historical, i.e. being able to survive changes in fashion and taste over generations.
He was noted for his unique yodelling style, But yodelling is something that has most definitely fallen out of fashion in roots, folk, and country music.
Most of his music now sounds very, very cornball. In thrift stores, record collectors looking vintage country cannot wash their hands quickly enough if they accidentally touch one of Carter's albums.
However, I have always liked this particular tune, My Little Yoho Lady.
The Original
Used in a candy bar ad in a very appropriate setting
Carter is not completely forgotten. The young, Stephanie Westdal, does a lovely cover of My Little Yoho Lady, replete with yodelling.
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