Maybelle Carter was a member of the original Carter Family, a band which was formed in 1927 by her brother-in-law, A. P. Carter. Maybelle was cherished by the Grand Ole Opry community of the early 1950s and became widely known as "Mother Maybelle." One of my favorite songs by Mother Maybelle is Troublesome Waters.While I was cleaning my office recently, I found a copy of an old cassette I had recorded back in 1986, in Waverly New York. Troublesome Waters is among the songs on this cassette. With the help of Jonny Farnham, the sound technician for Christian Life Church, I multitracked, doing the vocal and playing the guitars and the mandolin. I had some fun getting the lead guitar and the mandolin talking to each other during the instrumental break. The upright bass is played by Kenny Marsh, a well-known musician in the area and the DJ for a weekly radio broadcast on WTTC in Towanda, Pennsylvania, the town I grew up in.
John Rath, a friend of mine here in Arizona, recently transferred the cassette to MP3 files, and you can listen to my rendition of Troublesome Waters from the link below. The recording equipment we used back in 1986 was primitive for its time, and the cassette copy was done on a not-so-great duplicator, so the sound quality is far from perfect--but it sounds better than some the old Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers recordings from the 1920's that I listen to--so I figured, what the hey--why not post it and see if anyone wants to listen to it. I love this song of simple faith and hope it is a blessing to you...
Click Here to Listen to Troublesome Waters
