Johnny Cash Closing Show (Keep on the Sunny Side) 

Mother Maybelle Carter was and is a legend never to be forgotten. It's great to listen to her play the autoharp. God rest Mother Maybelle.

Amazing music! She is the real Mother of country music!

With the benefit of hindsight and given where the country is now, this is probably the best it's ever gonna be. Clean, uplifting music that sounds great. The people, the sounds, the essence all directly descendent from the country's founding . Men were still men, women were women; the last era. Mother Maybelle reminds me of my grandmothers, born in 1913 and 1932 respectively, they were fine ladies. Unbelievably commonplace back then, they would be seen as anomalies and freaks today: well dressed at all times, clean home at all times, cooked meals despite their busy schedules, intelligent despite no formal education beyond 8th grade and high school, pillars of their communities, never took a handout, never had a cross word to say about anyone, never complained, church every Sunday, loved and adored by all. We've lost something along the way, can't quite grasp it though.

From The Johnny Cash Show in 1970. He always had a great show with all kinds of music. We need more good television like this today.

The guitar was Mother Maybelle's real legacy. At some point in country music somebody decided women shouldn't play instruments. That was a mistake. Today I'm so glad to see women playing again.

Mother Maybelle Carter was magnificent: the empress of country music!

A real American classic, especially Mother Maybelle Carter.

As good as it gets.....

WoW. Beautiful music, people and God.

Norman Blake joining the Tennessee Three on acoustic guitar. Royalty all around.

There’s nobody like Mother Maybelle! The only two people that come close are her cousin and her brother-in-law, Sara and A.P. Carter. When the three of them started playing and singing together in the 1920s❤❤ a beautiful thing happened, which is that American folk music became a classic that would be known the world over. The sentiments represented by this music- basically the same as in all traditional lyrics and poetry: love, life and death, and God- come forth from the hills and hollows of the American South. And of course when they put the lyrics to the lively sounds of fiddles and guitars, pure magic was created! Maybe I’m lacking in music appreciation, but to me this music , what we call bluegrass, is every bit as worthy as classical music.

Yes😊JRLittle

I believe that is Norman Blake picking the dreadnaught, sitting in front of the bassist.

So good!!!!! Thank you.

Good old-fashioned singing

Networks would not allow this today

Best part 0:43

Is that June next to Maybelle? I can't tell, I've never seen June with her hair like that

Who is the guy who is playing acoustic guitar beneath Bob Wooton? Who is the woman just right of Mother Maybelle Carter?

That's Janice Carter to the right of maybelle.

That lady had a devil