June Carter Cash - Wildwood Flower

Great for historical interest...Johnny & June both died within about a year!

I owned this CD & have lost or misplaced it. I treasured it due fact that both Johnny & June died within about a year after it was made. I was shopping for karaoke cds & this cd fell from the rack & after reading it I had to have it. I am very pleased. February 21, 2007

Mythical and Enchanting

Somehow June has captured the Carter family spirit and their impossibly rich history in these songs. I don't remember the last album I purchased where I listened to every song like I do this album. For that reason, I can't point to highlights. It's one special moment after another. It's true that June never had the prettiest voice (she's no Joan Baez), and here it is somewhat faded because of age, but what comes out stronger than anywhere I've heard her (or even Anita) is a sense of strength, pride and leaving a legacy. The same can be said for Johnny's voice and Laura Cash's fiddle. Not to mention the amazing Marty Stuart. Happily, those wonderful talents are all in the background, leaving June front and center to remind us (and it seems like that is what she wants to do) of the power of A.P. Carter and the Carter family's legacy. This is a labor of love, and luckily, one that is accessible to all of us. This is an album to listen to on a rainy Saturday, when you've got the time to sit and relax. November 20, 2006

Cash-Carter Have To Have cd

This cd is a must have for any Cash Carter fan. The videos are priceless & sad too. Since these are some of their last recordings August 23, 2006

Great stuff.

Review by Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

The tracks that comprise Wildwood Flower became June Carter Cash's final recording sessions, and were held from October 2002 to March 2003. Largely a family affair, Wildwood Flower is easily Carter Cash's least polished recording and perhaps her best. Husband Johnny sings in either duet or as backup on almost all the tracks; also singing are daughter Carlene, granddaughter Tiffany Anastasia Lowe, and cousins Joe and Janette Carter (children of Sara and A.P. Carter). Johnny and June's son John Carter Cash produced the album and former son-in-law Marty Stuart makes an appearance or two as well. Creating most of the instrumental merrymaking are Norman and Nancy Blake. And it is fitting that this collection of family and friends created June Carter Cash's recorded epitaph. These songs are intimate, frighteningly so. Her voice, as well as Johnny Cash's, are mere shadows of what once were golden throats, and the songs were by and large written by A.P. Carter, with one by June and a cover of a Leon Russell tune. The ghosts of the original Carter Family hover about uneasily in the mix here, offering shards of old harmonies and broken notes in the title track, "Anchored in Love," "Keep on the Sunny Side," "Road to Kaintuck," "Kneeling Drunkard's Plea," and especially "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone," where the truth strikes a little too close to home. There are a few spoken word intros here (and some historically recorded ones) that are both poignant and humorous -- check out June's observations of actor Lee Marvin on her intro to her song "Big Yellow Peaches." As the family gathers round one last time, the entire history of the country music tradition comes through and pours down around the listener, cracking and breaking and yet more musical than ever. This is the music of the folk as A.P. wrote it. And as such, it is both a credible historical document and, more importantly, the last will and testament of a legend who went back to her beginnings as a way of understanding the continuity of family and song in the present. Wildwood Flower is truly amazing, truly flawed, and heartbreakingly beautiful
August 8, 2006

Dear June

I know this isn't a review for evweryone else. I don't care how you rate it. I want June to know I wrote it for HER.

June,
I know since you've died, not many people have been buying your CD's. There in the dusty corners of the CD store. Even though I never knew you, I know you'd feel terrible. I'm writing this for everyoen to see that you ARE one of the best country singers.

I know you feel neglected, and you feel like a nobody. I think you're great, or else I wouldn't be writing this.


Everyone, June is a wonderful singer, and this CD is great. Don't let it get away! If you're looking for a good CD to start off with, this is the one.

June August 7, 2006

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