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June Carter cash`s parting gift: `Wildwood Flower`
Nashville, Aug 26: In the offices of Dualtone Records in Nashville, John Carter Cash fingered the lovingly created liner notes for his mother`s last album.
Nashville, Aug 26: In the offices of Dualtone Records in Nashville, John Carter Cash fingered the lovingly created liner notes for his mother's last album.
"We didn't know until two weeks before her death that we were going to lose her," said Cash, the son of June and Johnny Cash and producer of "June Carter Cash: Wildwood Flower," his mother's final album scheduled for release on Sept. 9.
"Thank God she got to hear it before she died," he said of her death in May following heart surgery. "She was always so critical of her own works. We had to reassure her along the way until she was satisfied she had given it her best."
June Carter Cash left more than her best music to her grieving family and public. She left a legacy of pure country sound rooted in her native Appalachian hills of Virginia where the Carter family first sang their way into history.
Her soft-spoken son recalled the twilight of a summer's day last year when she sat on the porch of the old Carter home in Maces Spring, Virginia, and outlined the project she had in mind.
"She wanted to link together the best classic tunes," her son, 33, said. "Sitting there where it all began when the Carter family started singing together, I think my mother felt she needed to do this."
It was more than 77 years ago that Sara and A.P. Carter, along with his sister-in-law Maybelle, drove A.P.'s old Model A Ford from Clinch Mountain, Virginia, to the Victor Talking Machine Company in Bristol, Tennessee. They formed a singing group -- the Carter Family -- recorded songs and earned enough to survive the Great Depression.
June Carter was born to Maybelle in 1929 and was singing at age 13 along with her sisters Helen and Anita.
The Carter Family disbanded in 1943, and Maybelle and her two daughters performed on the "Old Dominion Barn Dance" radio show. Later, the group developed a relationship with Johnny Cash, and in 1968 Johnny and June were married. Their son grew up surrounded by country music icons.
"Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings -- they were at our home all the time but they were just friends of my father's to me," he said.
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"Thank God she got to hear it before she died," he said of her death in May following heart surgery. "She was always so critical of her own works. We had to reassure her along the way until she was satisfied she had given it her best."
June Carter Cash left more than her best music to her grieving family and public. She left a legacy of pure country sound rooted in her native Appalachian hills of Virginia where the Carter family first sang their way into history.
Her soft-spoken son recalled the twilight of a summer's day last year when she sat on the porch of the old Carter home in Maces Spring, Virginia, and outlined the project she had in mind.
"She wanted to link together the best classic tunes," her son, 33, said. "Sitting there where it all began when the Carter family started singing together, I think my mother felt she needed to do this."
It was more than 77 years ago that Sara and A.P. Carter, along with his sister-in-law Maybelle, drove A.P.'s old Model A Ford from Clinch Mountain, Virginia, to the Victor Talking Machine Company in Bristol, Tennessee. They formed a singing group -- the Carter Family -- recorded songs and earned enough to survive the Great Depression.
June Carter was born to Maybelle in 1929 and was singing at age 13 along with her sisters Helen and Anita.
The Carter Family disbanded in 1943, and Maybelle and her two daughters performed on the "Old Dominion Barn Dance" radio show. Later, the group developed a relationship with Johnny Cash, and in 1968 Johnny and June were married. Their son grew up surrounded by country music icons.
"Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings -- they were at our home all the time but they were just friends of my father's to me," he said.
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