The Carter Family, Vol. 2: 1935-1941

British label offers another of their fine budget collections on . On 129 songs collected on five CDs, this second volume in the series gives a complete overview of the first family of music's later years. Legendary songs like and are all represented, and the sound quality is slightly more even than on the first box, . Essentially, anyone who can pull together the 60 dollars or so that it would take to own both sets will have not only virtually every studio recording, but also a valuable archive of the roots of American music. ~ Zac Johnson