The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Narrator : Their songs of love and lost, desperation and joy comforted a nation in the darkest days of the depression, and brought a rare dignity to rural Appalachia culture.
旁白：他们的爱与失落、绝望与欢乐的歌曲在大萧条最黑暗的日子里安慰了一个民族，也给阿巴拉契亚乡村文化带来了难得的尊严。
June Carter Cash, Maybelle and Ezra's daughter : They had so many tunes that formed a basis for our country Western Music as we know it today.
琼·卡特·卡什 (June Carter Cash)，梅贝尔 (Maybelle) 和埃兹拉 (Ezra) 的女儿：他们创作的许多曲子为我们今天所知的乡村西方音乐奠定了基础。
Gillian Welch, Musician : I have a very hard time picturing American music and in fact world music without the Carter Family.
Gillian Welch，音乐家：我很难想象没有卡特家族的美国音乐，甚至世界音乐。
Narrator : America knew them as a model of domestic bliss.
旁白：美国人认为他们是家庭幸福的典范。
But their real life story had all the making of one of their songs: betrayal, loss and death.
但他们现实生活中的故事却与他们的一首歌息息相关：背叛、失落和死亡。
Narrator : More than 60 years ago this house served as the backdrop for The Carter Family as they proudly posed for the most popular weekly in the country.
旁白：60 多年前，卡特家族以这座房子为背景，自豪地为全国最受欢迎的周刊拍照。
"Life Magazine" would feature the musical family on the cover of its next issue.
《生活杂志》将在下一期的封面上介绍这个音乐家族。
Mark Zwonitzer, Author : They were at the top of their game they were known across America, they were in people's homes day after day after day on the radio.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)，作者：他们处于比赛的巅峰，他们在美国广为人知，他们日复一日地出现在人们的家中，出现在广播中。
Narrator : Carter Family patriarch, A.P.
旁白：卡特家族族长，A.P.
Carter, had worked towards this moment for 15 years.
为了这一刻，卡特已经努力了15年。
It meant recognition for himself, his family and their music.
这意味着对他自己、他的家人和他们的音乐的认可。
Rita Forrester, granddaughter of A.P.
丽塔·福雷斯特 (Rita Forrester)，A.P. 的孙女
and Sara Carter : He was instrumental in everything that happened.
萨拉·卡特：他在发生的一切事情中都发挥了重要作用。
It was his ambition, his drive, his strength that made them do what they do.
正是他的野心、他的干劲、他的力量让他们做出了他们所做的事情。
Marty Stuart, Musician : If you look at country music as if it were a musical bible, I'd say he would be in the Genesis.
马蒂·斯图尔特（Marty Stuart），音乐家：如果你把乡村音乐当作一本音乐圣经来看待，我会说他会出现在《创世记》中。
Where God says, "In the beginning, God created A.P Carter".
上帝说：“起初，上帝创造了 A.P 卡特”。
Narrator : He had assembled the most influential group in American country and roots music.
旁白：他组建了美国乡村和根源音乐界最有影响力的乐队。
With Sara's voice, Maybelle's guitar and A.P.'s arrangements, the Carter family helped form the bedrock of modern music.
凭借萨拉的声音、梅贝尔的吉他和 A.P. 的编曲，卡特家族帮助奠定了现代音乐的基石。
Janette Carter, A.P.
珍妮特·卡特，A.P.
and Sara's daughter : They sung blues, they sung gospel, they sung old time.
和萨拉的女儿：他们唱布鲁斯，他们唱福音，他们唱旧时光。
But anything they'd done, it had the Carter family touch to it.
但无论他们做什么，都会受到卡特家族的影响。
Narrator : But as the demand for their music grew, so did the tensions in the A.P.
旁白：但是随着对他们音乐的需求的增长，美联社的紧张气氛也随之增加。
Carter household.
卡特家族。
Marty Stuart : He was tuned into another place, and it was probably aggravating for other family members sometimes, to not be able to count on consistent daily life routine.
马蒂·斯图尔特（Marty Stuart）：他被调到了另一个地方，有时其他家庭成员可能会因为无法稳定的日常生活而感到烦恼。
But I'm glad he listened to whatever it was that he listened to, that gave us the songs that, you know, he found or wrote.
但我很高兴他听了他所听的一切，这给了我们他发现或写的歌曲。
I think he was a man of vision.
我认为他是一个有远见的人。
Narrator : A.P.
旁白：A.P.
Carter's vision brought Life Magazine to his doorstep.
卡特的愿景将《生活》杂志带到了他家门口。
But the moment of his greatest triumph was not what he dreamed.
但他最伟大的胜利时刻并不是他梦想的那样。
Mark Zwonitzer : All the drive and all the push and all the effort that it took to make this first family of country music cost him more, you know, than he could have guessed or imagined.
Mark Zwonitzer：为了打造这个乡村音乐的第一个家庭，所有的动力、所有的推动和所有的努力让他付出了更多的代价，你知道，比他想象或想象的要多。
Carter Family singing, Archival Film :Can the circle be unbroken, bye and bye Lord, bye and bye.
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：圆圈能否不间断，再见，主，再见，再见。
There's a better home a-waiting, in the sky Lord in the sky.
有一个更好的家在等待着，在天空中的主。
Carter Family singing, Archival Film : I fear the hearts of men are failing, for these are latter days we know.
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：我担心人们的心正在衰竭，因为我们知道现在已经是末世了。
The great depression now is spreading.
大萧条现在正在蔓延。
God's words declared it would be so.
神的话宣告事情会如此。
I'm going where there's no depression, to the lovely land that's free from care.
我要去没有忧郁的地方，去那片无忧无虑的可爱土地。
I'll leave this world of toil and trouble.
我将离开这个充满劳苦和烦恼的世界。
My home's in heaven, and I'm going there.
我的家在天堂，我要去那里。
Narrator : At the turn of the 20th century, the peaceful beauty of Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains masked the hard life of its inhabitants.
旁白：20世纪之交，弗吉尼亚州蓝岭山脉的宁静美景掩盖了当地居民的艰苦生活。
In the shadow of Clinch Mountain, the people of Poor Valley, Virginia, still lived much as their ancestors before them.
在克林奇山的阴影下，弗吉尼亚州普尔谷的人们仍然像他们的祖先一样生活。
The Carters had worked this land since the Revolutionary War.
自独立战争以来，卡特家族就在这片土地上耕作。
Mark Zwonitzer : A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：A.P.
Carter was born into a hard place.
卡特出生在一个艰难的地方。
He was born into Poor Valley Virginia in 1891, which comes by its name honestly.
1891 年，他出生在弗吉尼亚州的穷谷，这个名字名副其实。
It's farming community without great farming land, life was hard, life was difficult.
这是一个农业社会，没有大片的耕地，生活很艰苦，生活很困难。
People died early for no reason.
人们无缘无故地早逝。
There wasn't a lot of justice to the plan.
该计划没有太多公正性。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : In that bright land there will be no hunger, no orphan children crying for bread, no weeping...
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：在那片光明的土地上，不会有饥饿，不会有孤儿哭着要面包，不会哭泣……
Marty Stuart : Music in Poor Valley, Virginia was like a healer, I think it was a great communicator.
马蒂·斯图尔特：弗吉尼亚州普尔谷的音乐就像一个治疗师，我认为它是一个伟大的沟通者。
It was a reason to get together and on being good neighbors and family.
这是我们聚在一起并成为好邻居和家人的原因。
It was a reason to worship, it was a reason to hope and it was a reason to talk about hard times.
这是敬拜的理由，是希望的理由，也是谈论艰难时刻的理由。
Narrator : Born into this rich musical tradition, A.P.
旁白：A.P. 诞生于这个丰富的音乐传统之中。
Carter would make his life's mission to carry the songs of his remote valley to the wider world.
卡特一生的使命就是将偏远山谷的歌曲传播到更广阔的世界。
It was his mother, Mollie Carter, who first planted the seed of ambition before he was born.
正是他的母亲莫莉·卡特在他出生前首先播下了野心的种子。
Mark Zwonitzer : She was eight months pregnant with him.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：她怀了他八个月了。
She got caught in a storm and a lightning bolt comes down and plays around at her feet and she was sure that because of that lighting bolt that it sort of that baby always had that nervous energy
她陷入了一场暴风雨，一道闪电落下来，在她脚边玩耍，她确信，因为那道闪电，那个婴儿总是有那种紧张的能量。
Janette Carter : She claimed he was marked by that lightning.
珍妮特·卡特：她声称他被那道闪电标记了。
She said when he was born, his hands shook; they shook all his life.
她说，当他出生时，他的双手在颤抖；他们震撼了他的一生。
Mark Zwonitzer : A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：A.P.
was an odd, odd kid not only did he have the tremor, he had a hard time sitting still.
这是一个很奇怪的孩子，他不仅会颤抖，而且很难安静地坐着。
Janette Carter : My daddy could hardly write at all, his hands trembled, his writing was very, very bad so his mother took him out of school because children laughed at him.
珍妮特·卡特：我爸爸根本不会写字，他的手在颤抖，他的字写得非常非常糟糕，所以他妈妈把他从学校带了出来，因为孩子们嘲笑他。
Female Voice : He was very sensitive obviously and she couldn't allow that so she didn't make him stay in school.
女声：他显然非常敏感，她不能允许这样，所以她没有让他留在学校。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Everybody's gotta walk that lonesome valley.
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：每个人都必须走过那个孤独的山谷。
They've got to walk it by theirselves.
他们必须自己走下去。
There's nobody here can walk it for them, they've gotta walk it by theirselves.
这里没有人可以帮他们走，他们必须自己走。
Mark Zwonitzer : Music to A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：A.P. 音乐
was sustenance.
是寄托。
He needed music probably like he needed oxygen.
他需要音乐，就像他需要氧气一样。
It's really what kept him going, it's what filled his days and nights, it's what filled his quiet time alone time, which was most of the time.
这确实是让他继续前进的动力，是他日日夜夜的动力，也是他大部分时间独处的安静时光的动力。
Narrator : While music comforted A.P.
旁白：虽然音乐安慰了 A.P.
in his isolation, it would also be his bridge to the world.
在他孤独的时候，这也将成为他通往世界的桥梁。
Carter Family singing, Archival Film : Something's got a hold of me...
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：有什么东西抓住了我......
Mark Zwonitzer : There came a stage when his voice started to change when he was a young man and the quaver in his voice that the tremor had, the tear that they called it in the valley, made it a beautiful church voice.
马克·兹沃尼策（Mark Zwonitzer）：当他还是个年轻人的时候，有一个阶段，他的声音开始发生变化，他声音中的颤抖，他们在山谷里称之为泪水，使它成为一种美丽的教堂声音。
Carter Family singing, Archival Film : But something got a hold of me, yes something got a hold of me.
卡特家族的歌唱，档案电影：但是有什么东西抓住了我，是的，有东西抓住了我。
I went there to fight.
我去那里打仗。
But on that night, there something got a hold of me.
但那天晚上，有件事抓住了我。
Mark Zwonitzer : Uncle Flanders Bays shows him as a member of the exalted church quartet.
马克·兹沃尼策（Mark Zwonitzer）：弗兰德斯·贝斯叔叔将他展示为尊贵的教堂四重奏的成员。
That's where he really got his first recognition.
那是他第一次真正得到认可的地方。
Narrator : The mark that had seemed a curse for a child, now gave A.P.
旁白：这个标记对于一个孩子来说似乎是一种诅咒，现在却给了 A.P.
Carter the ability to distinguish himself as an adult.
卡特作为一个成年人有能力脱颖而出。
Mark Zwonitzer : If you spend your life growing up and your mother tells you you're marked, pretty soon you start to believe it and I think he started to believe it.
Mark Zwonitzer：如果你一生都在成长，而你的母亲告诉你你被标记了，很快你就会开始相信这一点，我想他也开始相信这一点。
He started to get it in his head that there was something special about him.
他开始觉得自己有些特别。
Narrator : Though music was sustenance to A.P., he knew it wouldn't put bread on the table.
旁白：虽然音乐是 A.P. 的生计，但他知道音乐并不能解决面包问题。
Farming was still the surest way to make a living in Poor Valley.
务农仍然是贫困谷最可靠的谋生方式。
To earn enough money to buy land, A.P.
为了赚到足够的钱购买土地，A.P.
went north to work on the rail lines.
北上到铁路线工作。
Mark Zwonitzer : And his trip to Richmond was a complete disaster.
Mark Zwonitzer：他的里士满之行完全是一场灾难。
He came back with no money in his pocket.
他回来时口袋里没有钱。
He came back with typhoid fever.
他回来时得了伤寒。
A terrible raging case.
一个可怕的、激烈的案件。
Narrator : As A.P.
旁白：作为 A.P.
Carter rode the train back home, he wrote his first song.
卡特乘坐火车回家，写下了他的第一首歌。
Music had not only been a comfort, and a means of recognition for him, but it would one day be the answer to his mother's prophecy.
音乐对他来说不仅是一种安慰和一种认可的方式，而且有一天它会成为他母亲预言的答案。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my Clinch Mountain home, carry me back to old Virginie, back to my old mountain home.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：带我回到老弗吉尼亚，回到我克林奇山的家，带我回到老弗吉尼亚，回到我老山的家。
Narrator : Back in Poor Valley, A.P.
旁白：回到穷谷，A.P.
tried his hand at a number of trades; his favorite was selling fruit trees.
尝试过许多行业；他最喜欢的是卖果树。
Mark Zwonitzer : As A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：作为 A.P.
tells the story, um, he was he was going to sell fruit trees across the valley.
讲故事，嗯，他要去山谷对面卖果树。
He was going to his Aunt Susie's house to try to make a sale and as he approached the house he heard a voice, a lovely singing voice.
他正要去苏西阿姨家做生意，当他走近那所房子时，他听到一个声音，一个可爱的歌声。
Sara Carter Singing, Archival Film : Oh my mother she died and left me I'm alone in this world, I'm alone and my father he won't own me.
萨拉·卡特 (Sara Carter) 演唱，档案电影：哦，我的母亲，她死了，留下了我，我在这个世界上孤独一人，我孤独一人，我的父亲不会拥有我。
Got to find me another home, got sweet heaven in my view hallelujah...
必须给我找到另一个家，在我看来有甜蜜的天堂哈利路亚......
Mark Zwonitzer : Sara Carter was orphaned before she was 5 years old and she grew up knowing loss.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：莎拉·卡特 (Sara Carter) 五岁前就成了孤儿，她从小就知道失去。
part of the power of her voice is that you can really hear that in her.
她声音的力量之一在于你可以真正从她身上听到这一点。
She's not going to give herself away but at the same time you can feel this pain she has that she's always trying to suppress and keep away from people.
她不会暴露自己，但同时你也能感受到她一直试图压抑并远离人们的痛苦。
Barry Mazor, Sr. Editor, No Depression Magazine : Sarah could just plain, flat-out sing wherever she got it from.
巴里·马佐 (Barry Mazor)，《无抑郁》杂志高级编辑：莎拉无论从哪里得到音乐，都可以简单、纯粹地唱歌。
I mean you could put her in any time and place.
我的意思是你可以把她放在任何时间和地点。
Um, there's something that resonates.
嗯，有一些东西能引起共鸣。
There's something deep in her voice.
她的声音里有一些深沉的东西。
She gets a hold of that lyric, she knows what she's singing and she makes it work for you, well, Sara won't let you down.
她掌握了那句歌词，她知道自己在唱什么，她让它为你工作，好吧，萨拉不会让你失望的。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Got sweet heaven in my view hallelujah.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：在我看来，有甜蜜的天堂，哈利路亚。
On my journey I press on, praise the Lord for I'm bound for that holy city got sweet heaven in my view...
在我的旅程中，我继续前行，赞美主，因为我要去那座圣城，在我看来，这是甜蜜的天堂……
Rita Forrester : He said he thought it was the most beautiful voice he'd ever heard, and that she was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen.
丽塔·福雷斯特：他说他认为这是他听过的最美丽的声音，而且她是他见过的最美丽的女人。
Mark Zwonitzer : As she first described it, she really wasn't interested in A.P., but years later she was asked, you know, what sort of melted her heart and she always said it was his singing voice, that, you know that was his saving grace she said.
Mark Zwonitzer：正如她最初描述的那样，她确实对 A.P. 不感兴趣，但多年后有人问她，你知道，是什么融化了她的心，她总是说那是他的歌声，那是他的救命稻草，她说。
Joe Carter, A.P.
乔·卡特，A.P.
and Sara Carter's son : They jumped the broomstick, got married.
和萨拉·卡特的儿子：他们跳了扫帚，结婚了。
But I really couldn't say what it is, the main thing was, but music I'd say was what done it.
但我真的不能说它是什么，主要的是，但我想说的是音乐做到了这一点。
Narrator : In 1915, the newlyweds loaded a wagon with Sara's worldly possessions and made the long trip across Clinch Mountain.
旁白：1915年，这对新婚夫妇将莎拉的财产装上一辆马车，长途跋涉穿越克林奇山。
As a new bride, Sara Carter was unaware that her voice would one day help realize her husband's vision.
作为一名新新娘，莎拉·卡特没有意识到她的声音有一天会帮助实现她丈夫的愿景。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : For I'm bound for that holy city, got sweet heaven in my view...
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：因为我要去那座圣城，在我的视野里有甜蜜的天堂......
Narrator : In 1926, A.P.'s younger brother Ezra Carter married Sara's first cousin, Maybelle Addington.
旁白：1926年，A.P.的弟弟埃兹拉·卡特与萨拉的表弟梅贝尔·阿丁顿结婚。
She had been playing music since before she could walk.
她从会走路之前就开始演奏音乐了。
Maybelle, Archival Film : Ever since I could remember when I was a little tot I used to pull that autoharp off of the table and sit on the floor with it because I couldn't reach it there to play it.
Maybelle，档案电影：自从我记得当我还是个小孩子的时候，我就常常把那把自动竖琴从桌子上拉下来，然后坐在地板上，因为我够不到它来演奏它。
Mark Zwonitzer : By the time she was 16, Maybelle was already a very accomplished musician and absolutely self-taught.
Mark Zwonitzer：当她 16 岁时，Maybelle 已经是一位非常有成就的音乐家并且完全自学成才。
Narrator : Maybelle could play the banjo, the fiddle and the autoharp, but she was most intrigued by an instrument that was gaining popularity in the South.
旁白：梅贝尔会演奏班卓琴、小提琴和自动竖琴，但她对一种在南方越来越受欢迎的乐器最感兴趣。
Maybelle, Archival Film : When I started playing the guitar I didn't have nobody to play with me, so that's how I developed the style of kicking in the rhythm too, you know, and they call it the Carter Scratch, now, some of 'em do.
Maybelle，档案电影：当我开始弹吉他时，没有人和我一起弹奏，所以这就是我如何发展踢节奏的风格，你知道，他们称之为卡特划痕，现在，他们中的一些人这样做了。
Gillian Welch : The most unique thing is the sort of combination of melody and chords that she played with.
阿娇·韦尔奇：最独特的是她演奏的旋律与和弦的结合。
If I were just playing chords to sing along with and not play a melody it would sort of sound like this.
如果我只是弹奏和弦来跟着唱而不弹奏旋律，那么听起来会像这样。
OK, so that's no melody.
好吧，所以这不是旋律。
So, what she's doing is...
那么，她现在要做的就是……
Mark Zwonitzer : It was like having two guitar players in one, and it was a very driving sort of rhythm for that for that day.
Mark Zwonitzer：这就像两个吉他手合而为一，对于那天来说这是一种非常驱动的节奏。
Gillian Welch : She's got this really particular bounce to the scratch part of her playing.
Gillian Welch：她的演奏中的搓盘部分有着非常特别的弹跳力。
Even if they're singing the most maudlin songs about, you know, dying children and orphaned children and what not it never truly gets maudlin and part if is because of her guitar playing.
即使他们唱的是最伤感的歌曲，你知道，关于垂死的孩子和孤儿，但如果是因为她的吉他演奏，它永远不会真正变得伤感和分离。
Barry Mazor : She happened to have invented the first really workable American vernacular everyday this is how we sing, this is how we play instrumental stuff we couldn't overestimate how influential it was.
Barry Mazor：她碰巧发明了第一个真正可行的美国方言，这就是我们每天唱歌的方式，这就是我们演奏器乐的方式，我们无法高估它的影响力。
Narrator : By the spring of 1926, all the elements of the most influential musical group in the United States lived within the borders of a small isolated town: Maybelle's innovative guitar picking; Sara's powerful voice and scores of songs passed from generation to generation.
旁白：到1926年春天，美国最有影响力的音乐团体的所有成员都生活在一个与世隔绝的小镇的边界内：梅贝尔创新的吉他拨弦；萨拉强有力的声音和几十首歌曲代代相传。
For Sara and Maybelle Carter music was simply the fun after the day's work was done.
对于萨拉和梅贝尔·卡特来说，音乐只是一天工作结束后的乐趣。
It would take A.P.'s stubborn will to bring the Carter Family out from under the shadow of Clinch Mountain.
需要 A.P. 顽强的意志才能将卡特家族从克林奇山的阴影下拯救出来。
Twelve years into to their marriage, Sara and A.P.
萨拉和 A.P. 结婚十二年后，
were struggling.
正在挣扎。
With two young daughters and a son on the way, there were mouths to feed.
两个年幼的女儿和一个儿子即将出生，还有很多人要吃饭。
A.P.
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found it nearly impossible to provide the stability that his family needed and Sara craved.
发现几乎不可能提供家人所需和萨拉渴望的稳定。
Rita Forrester : My granddad had a restless spirit and I'm sure there was always a lot of nervous energy in the household.
丽塔·福雷斯特：我的祖父脾气暴躁，我确信家里总是充满紧张的气氛。
Janette Carter : He was always so kindly lone a person...
珍妮特·卡特：他总是那么善良，孤独……
I mean he would walk up and down the railroads and walk an awful lot by his self.
我的意思是，他会在铁路上走来走去，并且独自走很多路。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : My father's got to walk that lonesome valley.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：我父亲必须走那条孤独的山谷。
He's got to walk it by himself ,there's nobody here can walk it for him.
他必须自己走，这里没有人可以帮他走。
Rita Forrester : The music was first and foremost in his mind always, ...
丽塔·福雷斯特：音乐始终是他心中最重要的，......
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : He's got to walk it by hisself...
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：他必须自己走下去......
Rita Forrester : He would be gone for long periods of time which drove my grandmother crazy, because that would leave her with the farm, the children, all the work.
丽塔·福雷斯特：他会离开很长一段时间，这让我的祖母发疯，因为这会让她独自承担农场、孩子和所有的工作。
Mark Zwonitzer : He had no interest in seeing a crop through.
Mark Zwonitzer：他没有兴趣看到农作物的生长。
Mainly because he was always thinking about the music, he was always thinking about how he could make a living with music.
主要是因为他一直在想着音乐，他一直在想着如何以音乐为生。
Bill Clifton, Musician and A.P.
Bill Clifton，音乐家和 A.P.
Carter's friend : Sara really was not interested in playing at all.
卡特的朋友：莎拉真的对玩一点兴趣都没有。
Quite honestly she would have been quite happy to die without ever having made a recording or sung a song professionally she really did not have that drive at all.
老实说，如果没有专业地录制或演唱歌曲，她会很高兴死，她真的根本没有那种动力。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : She's got to walk it by herself, my brother's got to walk that lonesome Valley.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：她必须独自行走，我的兄弟必须走那条孤独的山谷。
She's got to walk it by herself...
她必须自己走下去……
Narrator : In July of 1927, A.P.
旁白：1927 年 7 月，A.P.
Carter saw an ad announcing that a talent scout from Victor Records would be in Bristol, Tennessee, auditioning all comers.
卡特看到一则广告，宣布维克多唱片公司的星探将在田纳西州布里斯托尔试镜所有来者。
A.P.
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had a hard time convincing Sara and Maybelle that the all day 25-mile trip would be worth the effort.
我很难说服萨拉和梅贝尔相信一整天的 25 英里旅行是值得的。
Rita Forrester : He wanted to do something that would last and he was the driving force behind having the ladies even go to Bristol for the sessions.
丽塔·福雷斯特：他想做一些持久的事情，他是让女士们甚至去布里斯托尔参加课程的推动力。
Maybelle was 8 months pregnant, I'm sure the last thing she wanted to do was drive to Bristol in the scorching August heat.
Maybelle 已经怀孕 8 个月了，我确信她最不想做的事情就是在八月的酷热中开车去布里斯托尔。
Mark Zwonitzer : Sara says, "ain't nobody going to pay us fifty dollars to sing a song." So he was met with great skepticism.
马克·兹沃尼策：萨拉说，“没有人愿意付给我们五十美元来唱一首歌。”因此，他遭到了极大的怀疑。
Not many people in the Valley at that time thought A.P.
当时硅谷没有多少人认为 A.P.
was a visionary.
是一个有远见的人。
Narrator :Despite their hesitation, The Carter trio arrived the following day at Victor's makeshift studio in an abandoned hat factory in Bristol.
旁白：尽管卡特三人犹豫不决，但第二天还是到达了维克多位于布里斯托尔一家废弃帽子工厂的临时工作室。
There they met the man whose own vision intersected with A.P.
在那里，他们遇到了一个与 A.P. 的愿景相交的人。
Carter's, Ralph Peer.
卡特，拉尔夫·皮尔。
Mark Zwonitzer : Peer was one of the first people to figure out that there was a big listening audience out there and they didn't just want to listen to Caruso and he was going to the places where they were making the people's music.
马克·兹沃尼策：皮尔是最早发现那里有大量听众的人之一，他们不仅仅是想听卡鲁索，而且他要去他们制作人民音乐的地方。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : My heart is sad and I'm in sorrow for the only one I love.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：我的心很悲伤，我为我唯一爱的人感到悲伤。
When shall I see him, oh no never till I meet him in heaven above.
我什么时候才能见到他，哦不，除非我在天堂见到他。
Oh bury me under the weeping willow, yes under the weeping willow tree.
噢，把我埋在垂柳下，是的，埋在垂柳树下。
So he may know where I am sleeping and perhaps he will weep for me.
所以他可能知道我睡在哪里，也许他会为我哭泣。
Ralph Peer, Archival Film : As soon as I heard Sara's voice that was it.
拉尔夫·皮尔（Ralph Peer），档案电影：我一听到莎拉的声音，就是这样。
I'd done this so many times.
我已经做过很多次了。
I was trained to watch for the one point.
我受过训练，要注意这一点。
As soon as I heard her voice, I began to build around it.
当我听到她的声音时，我就开始围绕它进行创作。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : I did not believe it was true ...
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：我不相信这是真的......
Mark Zwonitzer : Ralph Peer was in this business for one reason and that was to make money.
Mark Zwonitzer：Ralph Peer 从事这一行业的原因只有一个，那就是赚钱。
What he wanted was material that could be copyrighted.
他想要的是可以受版权保护的材料。
That he could then claim as his own and what A.P.'s genius was taking these old, old songs, some of them traditional and remaking them.
然后他就可以声称这是他自己的，而 A.P. 的天才之处在于将这些古老的、古老的歌曲，其中一些是传统的，并重新制作它们。
Narrator : Peer found what he was looking for.
旁白：皮尔找到了他要找的东西。
In fact, his Bristol sessions would come to be known as the Big Bang of commercial country music, producing such greats as Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family.
事实上，他在布里斯托尔的演出被称为商业乡村音乐大爆炸，产生了吉米·罗杰斯和卡特家族等伟大人物。
But after recording six songs, the Carters and Peer, had no idea what they'd started.
但在录制了六首歌后，卡特夫妇和皮尔不知道他们开始了什么。
Months passed and the Carter family had heard nothing from Ralph Peer or Victor Records.
几个月过去了，卡特一家没有收到拉尔夫·皮尔或维克多唱片公司的任何消息。
It made A.P.
它让 A.P.
more anxious and more distracted.
更加焦虑，更加心烦意乱。
Sara quietly went about the daily chore of life.
莎拉静静地处理着日常的生活琐事。
In early 1928, Victor released Sara's haunting version of Single Girl, Married Girl on the B-side of a 78.
1928 年初，Victor 在 78 的 B 面发行了 Sara 令人难以忘怀的版本《Single Girl, Married Girl》。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Single girl, single girl, she's going dressed fine.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：单身女孩，单身女孩，她穿得很漂亮。
Oh, she's going dressed fine, married girl, married girl, she wears just any kind, oh, she wears just any kind.
哦，她穿得很好，已婚女孩，已婚女孩，她穿什么都行，哦，她穿什么都行。
Mark Zwonitzer : As Sara would later say that was the one that tipped it off it must have caught a wave out there.
马克·兹沃尼策（Mark Zwonitzer）：正如萨拉后来所说，是那个人泄露了消息，它一定在外面掀起了一股浪潮。
People bought that record.
人们买了那张唱片。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film :Wear just any kind, wear just any kind...
卡特家族歌唱，档案电影：穿什么都行，穿什么都行……
Barry Mazor : That was pretty potent stuff then as it is now for a woman from the city let alone from the country to be singing about -By the way, this marriage thing is no bed of roses,' this was pretty incendiary stuff.
巴里·马佐尔：这在当时是非常有力的东西，现在对于一个来自城市的女人来说，更不用说来自乡村的女人会唱“顺便说一句，婚姻这件事并不称心如意”，这是非常煽动性的东西。
Gillian Welch : As a single woman singing it, it always seemed like a little bit of a taunt, you know a compassionate taunt, you know to be flaunting your freedom.
阿娇·韦尔奇：作为一个单身女性唱这首歌，它总是看起来有点嘲讽，你知道这是一种富有同情心的嘲讽，你知道这是在炫耀你的自由。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Oh, she goes to store and buys.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：哦，她去商店买东西。
Married girl, married girl, she rocks the cradle and cries oh, she rocks the cradle and cries.
已婚的女孩，已婚的女孩，她摇着摇篮哭了，哦，她摇着摇篮哭了。
Mary Bufwack, Author : Sarah didn't want to go out and sings song, Sarah didn't want to go down and record music, but it brought money into the family coffers and that was what, was her obligation was to do.
玛丽·布夫瓦克，作者：莎拉不想出去唱歌，莎拉不想下去录制音乐，但这给家里带来了钱，这就是她的义务。
Mark Zwonitzer : Not long after that, here comes Cecil McLister bouncing down the valley road with their first royalty check and with the news that Mr. Ralph Peer wants them, wants them in Camden New Jersey right away for a brand new record session.
马克·兹沃尼泽：不久之后，塞西尔·麦克利斯特带着他们的第一张版税支票沿着山谷路蹦蹦跳跳，并带来了拉尔夫·皮尔先生想要他们的消息，希望他们立即在新泽西州卡姆登进行全新的唱片录制。
Narrator : In that the moment, life changed for the Carter Family.
旁白：在那一刻，卡特一家的生活发生了变化。
For Sara, that's when married life really got hard.
对于萨拉来说，婚姻生活在那时才真正变得艰难。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Married girl, married girl, baby on her knee oh, baby on her knee.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：已婚女孩，已婚女孩，膝盖上的婴儿哦，膝盖上的婴儿。
Mark Zwonitzer : The great news is that Mr. Peer is going to be paying them 50 dollars a song and that's a huge amount of money.
Mark Zwonitzer：好消息是 Peer 先生将向他们支付每首歌 50 美元的费用，这是一笔巨款。
And A.P.
和 A.P.
was in a swivet out trying to get songs.
正在急忙尝试获取歌曲。
Narrator : To build a repertoire for the next recording session, A.P.
旁白：为了为下一次录音制作曲目，A.P.
relied heavily on the musical tradition of Poor Valley.
很大程度上依赖于贫困谷的音乐传统。
Barry Mazor : He did the subtle thing that might have been the most important.
巴里·梅佐：他做了一件可能是最重要的微妙的事情。
He got a hold of these songs.
他掌握了这些歌曲。
He found a way that would make them work cause they kind of knew what people would respond to.
他找到了一种能让他们发挥作用的方法，因为他们知道人们会做出什么反应。
He changed them.
他改变了它们。
He arranged them.
他安排了他们。
He updated them.
他更新了它们。
Bill Clifton : And often he would say just well no, I didn't write it I just kind of fixed it up.
比尔·克利夫顿：他常常会说，好吧，不，我没有写它，我只是把它修好了。
And that was his way of talking about making an arrangement he fixed it up.
这就是他谈论安排的方式，他已经解决了。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Lord I told the undertaker, "Undertaker, please drive slow, for this body you are hauling..."
卡特家族的歌声，档案影片：主啊，我对殡仪员说：“殡仪员，请开慢点，因为你拖着的这具尸体……”
Bill Clifton : When he fixed them up he fixed them up right.
比尔·克利夫顿：当他把它们修好时，他就把它们修好了。
Everybody who sings Will the Circle Be Unbroken sings the way A.P.
每个唱《Will the Circle Be Unbroken》的人都会像 A.P. 那样唱。
fixed it up.
修好了。
And they don't sing it the original way.
而且他们并不以原来的方式唱这首歌。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Can the circle be unbroken?
卡特家族歌唱、档案电影：圆能不间断吗？
By and by Lord, by and by.
主啊，渐渐地，渐渐地。
There's a better home awaiting in the sky, Lord, in the sky.
主啊，在天空中，有一个更好的家在等待着。
Joan Baez, Musician : There are very few songs that make it to the campfires around the world in Germany, or France in Turkey you're likely to hear a version of Will the Circle be Unbroken .
琼·贝兹 (Joan Baez)，音乐家：很少有歌曲能够在德国或法国的篝火上流传，在土耳其，您可能会听到“Will the Circle be Unbroken”的版本。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Can the circle be unbroken?
卡特家族歌唱、档案电影：圆能不间断吗？
By and by Lord, by and by.
主啊，渐渐地，渐渐地。
There's a better home awaiting in the sky, Lord, in the sky.
主啊，在天空中，有一个更好的家在等待着。
Mark Zwonitzer : In that first Camden session they did Will you Miss Me When I'm Gone .
Mark Zwonitzer：在卡姆登的第一场演出中，他们演奏了《当我离开时你会想念我吗》。
They did Wildwood Flower .
他们做了野木花。
They did Forsaken Love .
他们拍了《被遗忘的爱》。
They did Anchored In Love , John Hardy was a Desperate Little Man , you could say that they could have stopped right then and left a remarkable legacy.
他们拍了《爱的锚定》，《约翰·哈迪是一个绝望的小男人》，你可以说他们当时就可以停下来，留下一份非凡的遗产。
Narrator : In 1928 and '29, The Carter Family record sales exploded; Victor released hit after hit, routinely selling over one-hundred thousand copies.
旁白：1928年和29年，卡特家族的唱片销量呈爆炸式增长；维克多发行了一首又一首热门歌曲，通常销量超过十万张。
The Carter Family sound was new and compelling; the lyrics timeless.
卡特家族的声音新颖而引人注目；歌词永恒。
Mary Bufwack : The kind of music the Carter family did had drama to it.
Mary Bufwack：卡特家族创作的音乐充满戏剧性。
It was the dark side.
这是黑暗的一面。
It was often times the ugly side of our society; it was the side we don't acknowledge.
这往往是我们社会丑陋的一面；这是我们不承认的一面。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Orphan children have such a hard time in this world.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：孤儿在这个世界上过着艰难的日子。
Orphan children have such a hard time in this world.
孤儿在这个世界上过着多么艰难的日子。
Sister does the best she can, but she really don't understand.
姐姐已经尽力了，但她实在不明白。
Orphan children have such a hard time in this world.
孤儿在这个世界上过着多么艰难的日子。
Gillian Welch : The themes in it are so universal and right on the surface, you know, its pretty plain spoken even though it's a really, a very unique kind of poetry.
阿娇·韦尔奇：其中的主题是如此普遍，而且表面上如此正确，你知道，尽管它确实是一种非常独特的诗歌，但它说起来相当简单。
Narrator : The Carters were still a new act when the Great Depression began to take hold of the country.
旁白：当大萧条开始席卷这个国家时，卡特家族还是一个新势力。
And though their sales were falling their music provided comfort for those losing a grip on what little they had.
尽管他们的销量在下降，但他们的音乐为那些失去控制的人提供了安慰。
Bill Clifton : Nobody had any money, nobody had enough to eat hardly and this was the kind of music about home, about family about stories about everyday things that really talked to people.
比尔·克利夫顿：没有人有钱，没有人吃不饱，这是一种关于家、关于家庭、关于日常事物的故事的音乐，真正能与人们交谈。
Rodney Crowell, Musician : And sometimes the despair in the music was deeper than the despair in their own lives.
罗德尼·克罗威尔，音乐家：有时音乐中的绝望比他们自己生活中的绝望更深。
And they saw that their situation was perhaps not as bad as they thought it might be, and in that way music gave them hope.
他们发现自己的处境也许并不像他们想象的那么糟糕，音乐给了他们希望。
Rita Forrester : It's hard not to listen to something that's so personal and so deeply felt and not feel part of it, and then I think it touches everyone.
丽塔·福雷斯特（Rita Forrester）：很难不去聆听那些如此个人化、如此深刻的感受，并且不感觉自己是其中的一部分，然后我认为它触动了每个人。
It's a little bit of their life story.
这是他们生活故事的一小部分。
Ralph Stanley, Musician : They sung it just exactly the way they live it, and I think that's the way it should be sung.
拉尔夫·斯坦利，音乐家：他们完全按照他们的生活方式来演唱，我认为这就是应该的演唱方式。
Marty Stuart : It had a very unique and special power, um, it didn't come together until the three of 'em got together.
马蒂·斯图尔特：它有一种非常独特和特殊的力量，嗯，直到他们三个聚在一起它才聚集在一起。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Orphan children have such a hard time in this world.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：孤儿在这个世界上过着艰难的日子。
Sister does the best she can, but she really don't understand.
姐姐已经尽力了，但她实在不明白。
Orphan children have such a hard time in this world.
孤儿在这个世界上过着多么艰难的日子。
Narrator : With each new recording session, A.P.
旁白：每次新录音时，A.P.
Carter widened his circles searching for new material.
卡特扩大了自己的圈子，寻找新材料。
Bill Clifton : He was a person who could look at a house and say, now there's a song up there and there would be a song.
比尔·克利夫顿（Bill Clifton）：他是一个可以看着一栋房子并说，现在那里有一首歌，而且还会有一首歌的人。
I mean he hardly ever made a mistake about that.
我的意思是他在这方面几乎没有犯过错误。
Mark Zwonitzer : He was always out searching in haunts and hollows that nobody had ever been.
马克·兹沃尼策（Mark Zwonitzer）：他总是在无人出没的地方和空洞中寻找。
He scared up sheet music that was 70 years old and he recast that.
他修改了已有 70 年历史的乐谱并重新创作了它。
He went into the, um, Black neighborhoods in Kingsport.
他走进了金斯波特的黑人社区。
He went into the coal mining towns and got coal-mining songs he just never stopped trying.
他走进煤矿小镇，听了他从未停止尝试的煤矿歌曲。
Gillian Welch : A.P.
阿娇·韦尔奇：A.P.
was really egalitarian about it and if there was a good song to be found it was fair game.
真的很平等，如果能找到一首好歌，那就是公平的游戏。
It seemed to cross social and class and racial boundaries and religious and secular and everything.
它似乎跨越了社会、阶级、种族、宗教、世俗等一切界限。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : You can wash my jumper, starch my overalls.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：你可以洗我的毛衣，给我的工装裤上浆。
Catch the train they call a cannonball from Buffalo to Washington.
乘坐他们称之为炮弹的火车从布法罗到华盛顿。
Narrator : During his travels, A.P.
旁白：在旅行期间，A.P.
forged an unusual friendship with a man named Lesley Riddle.
与一个名叫莱斯利·里德尔的人建立了不寻常的友谊。
Janette Carter : First time I heard daddy say he seen him was over on the streets in Kingsport a singing.
珍妮特·卡特：我第一次听到爸爸说他看到他是在金斯波特的街道上唱歌。
He talked to him and went home with him.
和他聊了几句，就陪他回家了。
Maybelle : He used to come to the house quite often, A.P.
Maybelle：他以前经常来我们家，A.P.
would bring him up and we'd sit around and play.
把他带大，我们就坐在一起玩。
And he really knew a lot of old songs and played a lot of good guitar.
他确实知道很多老歌，弹得很好的吉他。
Bill Clifton : A.P.
比尔·克利夫顿：A.P.
would have to look for a place for him to stay or you know a place for him to eat or get some food somewhere.
必须为他寻找一个住宿的地方，或者您知道一个可供他吃饭的地方或在某个地方获取一些食物。
You know, I mean it was Jim Crow was in business and he had to, to really look after somebody like Leslie.
你知道，我的意思是吉姆·克劳在做生意，他必须这样做，才能真正照顾像莱斯利这样的人。
Mark Zwonitzer : Imagine you're sitting in your house one day and up walks this six foot, two inch guy, with a kind of a shake and his friend Esley Riddle with one leg.
马克·茨沃尼策：想象一下，有一天你坐在家里，这个六英尺二英寸的家伙摇摇晃晃地走上来，他的朋友埃斯利·里德尔用一条腿走上来。
A black fellow.
一个黑人。
And they come to your house and they want to get your songs and you think what is this?
他们来到你家想要听你的歌曲，你认为这是什么？
What is going on here?
这是怎么回事？
Mark Zwonitzer : That's the wonderful thing about American music and American popular culture.
Mark Zwonitzer：这就是美国音乐和美国流行文化的美妙之处。
It's the mix of this stuff that makes it so wonderful and in that personal relationship they helped make a whole new kind of music.
正是这些东西的混合使它变得如此美妙，并且在这种个人关系中，他们帮助创造了一种全新的音乐。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : I'm leaving you...
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：我要离开你了......
Narrator : To satisfy both Ralph Peer's publishing demands and his own ambition, A.P.'s trips grew longer and more frequent.
旁白：为了满足拉尔夫·皮尔的出版需求和他自己的野心，A.P. 的旅行时间变得更长、更频繁。
Rita Forrester : It was not uncommon for him to leave and not come back for two or three weeks at a time and I don't think he saw anything wrong with that, that's just what he was doing.
丽塔·福雷斯特：他离开并且一次两三周不回来的情况并不少见，我不认为他认为这有什么问题，这就是他正在做的事情。
Mark Zwonitzer : And when he was home he was distracted, he was worried, he was trying to write songs.
Mark Zwonitzer：当他在家时，他心烦意乱，他很担心，他正在尝试写歌。
He was very jealous of his time and very jealous of his quiet time.
他很羡慕自己的时光，也很羡慕自己安静的时光。
And you just couldn't penetrate, you couldn't penetrate A.P.
你就是无法渗透，你无法渗透 A.P.
Carter.
卡特.
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Do not disturb my waking dream, the splendor of that winding stream...
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：别打扰我的醒梦，那条蜿蜒小溪的壮丽......
Narrator : For Sara, A.P.'s dream became just another chore.
旁白：对于萨拉来说，A.P.的梦想只是另一件苦差事。
Joe : The bright lights didn't interest her at all, it was just scratching out a little money to help feed the kids.
乔：明亮的灯光对她一点也不感兴趣，她只是想攒一点钱来养活孩子。
Mark Zwonitzer : She always loved the music there's no question about that, but, um, it, after a while, it became more about the recording dates and the travel and A.P.'s agitating to go out and do entertainments so it became the music sort of representative of all the things that were difficult in her life.
Mark Zwonitzer：她一直很喜欢音乐，这是毫无疑问的，但是，嗯，过了一段时间，它变得更多关于录音日期和旅行以及 A.P. 出去娱乐的鼓动，所以它成为了代表她生活中所有困难的音乐。
Narrator : In A.P.'s absence, Sara grew more independent often defying society's conventions.
旁白：在 A.P. 不在的情况下，萨拉变得更加独立，经常挑战社会习俗。
Rita Forrester : She liked to wear slacks, she would go hunting, um, she smoked cigarettes, which most women didn't do in that day and time.
丽塔·福雷斯特（Rita Forrester）：她喜欢穿休闲裤，她会去打猎，嗯，她抽烟，而当时大多数女性都不抽烟。
She liked to have fun.
她喜欢玩得开心。
Mark Zwonitzer : You know, she felt she earned the right to do as she pleased, and this is not an idea she got out of some magazine.
马克·兹沃尼策：你知道，她觉得自己有权做自己想做的事，这并不是她从某些杂志上得到的想法。
This was just her life.
这就是她的生活。
And so, she took what she believed to be due her.
因此，她接受了她认为应得的东西。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Do not disturb my waking dream, the splendor of that winding stream...
卡特家族的歌声，档案电影：别打扰我的醒梦，那条蜿蜒小溪的壮丽......
Narrator : By 1933, Sara reached a breaking point in her marriage.
旁白：1933 年，萨拉的婚姻达到了临界点。
A.P.'s overwhelming ambitions left her own in shambles.
A.P. 的雄心壮志让她自己陷入了混乱。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film :Are you lonesome tonight?
卡特家族歌唱、档案电影：今晚你孤独吗？
Do you miss me I say?
我说你想我吗？
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
你为我们渐行渐远感到遗憾吗？
Mark Zwonitzer : She basically fell for a fellow in the Valley named Coy Bays, who was a cousin of A.P.'s and they started what became, you know, a quiet but relatively public love affair and it was you know you can imagine it tore the family up.
马克·兹沃尼策：她基本上爱上了硅谷一个名叫科伊·贝斯的家伙，他是 A.P. 的表弟，他们开始了一段安静但相对公开的恋情，你知道你可以想象它撕裂了这个家庭。
Coy's parents hatched a plan with A.P.'s parents that they would get Coy out of the valley and so as a family, Coy and his parents and his siblings picked up and headed west to California to make a new life.
科伊的父母与 A.P. 的父母制定了一个计划，他们要把科伊带出山谷，因此作为一个家庭，科伊和他的父母以及他的兄弟姐妹收拾行李，向西前往加利福尼亚州开始新的生活。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Sad was the day when you went away.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：你离开的那一天令人悲伤。
You broke my heart in the month of May.
五月，你伤了我的心。
That little ring I gave to you was to show you dear, my love was true.
我送给你的那枚小戒指是为了向你表明亲爱的，我的爱是真实的。
Joe Carter : My mother left, went back to her people.
乔·卡特：我的母亲离开了，回到了她的人民身边。
We knew it was bad, but there wasn't nothing we could do about it to make it any better.
我们知道这很糟糕，但我们无能为力让它变得更好。
Janette Carter : she would come back to the valley.
珍妮特·卡特：她会回到山谷。
Why she would usually go up at Maybelle's, but if one of us was sick, she'd come to the house and stay until we got better.
为什么她通常会去梅贝尔家，但如果我们中的一个人生病了，她就会来到家里并留下来，直到我们康复为止。
Narrator : Sara never discussed her reasons for leaving, even with her own children.
旁白：莎拉从未讨论过她离开的原因，即使是和她自己的孩子。
But she later testified that A.P.'s temper left her little choice.
但她后来作证说，A.P. 的脾气让她别无选择。
Joe Carter : I reckon it just got to where they couldn't bear it the way it was, and they had to have relief somewhere, and it hurt my dad, I know it did bad, but he done what he thought he was supposed to, and we had to suffer along with him.
乔·卡特：我认为事情已经到了他们无法忍受的地步，他们必须在某个地方寻求缓解，这伤害了我父亲，我知道这很糟糕，但他做了他认为他应该做的事情，我们不得不和他一起受苦。
Mark Zwonitzer : It was an awful decision that Sara had to make to leave and to leave behind her children and she did not do it lightly, but it was really an untenable situation in the house and she understood that, um, the entire support system for those kids was in Maces Springs and in Poor Valley.
马克·兹沃尼策：萨拉不得不做出一个可怕的决定，离开并留下她的孩子们，她做的并不轻松，但这确实是家里的一个难以维持的情况，她明白，嗯，这些孩子的整个支持系统都在梅斯斯普林斯和贫困谷。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film :You denied your love but you proved it so.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：你否认了你的爱，但你证明了这一点。
You came to see me when the sun was low.
太阳落山的时候你来看我了。
You broke my heart but you were kind.
你伤了我的心，但你很善良。
When you said oh dear you'll never be mine.
当你说哦亲爱的你永远不会属于我。
Bill Clifton : A.P.
比尔·克利夫顿：A.P.
was a very lonely man.
是一个非常孤独的人。
He became very lonely.
他变得非常孤独。
I would even say lovesick.
我什至会说相思病。
Narrator : Soon after Sara left, Peer summoned The Carter Family to record again.
旁白：莎拉离开后不久，皮尔又召集了卡特一家进行录音。
From the other side of Clinch Mountain, Sara said she'd pass.
莎拉说她会从克林奇山的另一边过去。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Oh let me tell you what love will do.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：哦，让我告诉你爱会做什么。
If you love a boy that don't love you.
如果你爱一个不爱你的男孩。
They'll break your heart, they'll leave you alone, they'll roam the west so far from home...
他们会让你心碎，他们会让你孤单，他们会在远离家乡的西部漫游......
Narrator : For the first time, A.P.'s will and drive was not enough to keep the Carter Family together.
旁白：第一次，A.P.的意志和动力不足以让卡特家族团结在一起。
The fate of the trio now lay in Sara's hands.
三人组的命运现在掌握在萨拉手中。
Mark Zwonitzer : I think the argument that really got traction with Sara was that there was still money to be made.
Mark Zwonitzer：我认为真正吸引 Sara 的论点是仍然有钱可赚。
If Sara could do nothing else for the kids she could still make sure they had money in the bank.
即使萨拉不能为孩子们做任何其他事情，她仍然可以确保他们在银行里有钱。
Narrator : Sara eventually agreed to the awkward proposition of making music with her estranged husband.
旁白：萨拉最终同意了与分居的丈夫一起创作音乐的尴尬提议。
Through weeks of rehearsal and days of recording, the couple rarely talked of their divided relationship.
经过几周的排练和几天的录音，这对夫妇很少谈论他们分裂的关系。
Sara Carter singing, Archival Film : Now I know what it means to be lonesome and I know what it means to be blue.
莎拉·卡特演唱，档案电影：现在我知道孤独意味着什么，我知道忧郁意味着什么。
Rita Forrester : And the things that maybe they couldn't say, that they couldn't express, they could do that in music, and it was ok.
丽塔·福雷斯特：那些也许他们不能说、不能表达的事情，他们可以在音乐中做到，这没关系。
And maybe it didn't hurt quite so much if they did it in music.
如果他们在音乐中做到这一点，也许不会造成那么大的伤害。
A.P.
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Carter Singing, Archival Film : Caused I've sighed and I've cried since we parted.
卡特唱歌，档案电影：因为自从我们分手后我叹了口气，哭了。
There is no one knows what I've gone through, I'd give all that I own, just to have you back home, cause I'm lonesome, lonesome for you...
没有人知道我经历了什么，我愿意付出我的一切，只为你能回家，因为我很孤独，为你而孤独......
Narrator : Sara's absence forced A.P.
旁白：萨拉的缺席迫使 A.P.
to remain home and rely on his own songwriting skills, his broken heart provided ample inspiration.
留在家里依靠自己的歌曲创作技巧，他破碎的心提供了充足的灵感。
Sara Carter singing, Archival Film : My darling...Did you mean those words you said.
萨拉·卡特 (Sara Carter) 演唱，档案电影：我亲爱的……你说的那些话是认真的吗？
That has made me your forever, since the way we were wed.
自从我们结婚以来，这让我成为了永远的你。
Narrator : Approaching forty, Sara Carter was more alone than ever.
旁白：年近四十的萨拉·卡特比以往任何时候都更加孤独。
She lived a day's journey from her children and after three years of trying to reconcile with her husband, she finally gave up.
她与孩子们住着一天的路程，三年来试图与丈夫和解后，她终于放弃了。
Mark Zwonitzer : A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：A.P.
was not very forgiving and a stubborn man and hurt, and so he was not anxious to remake the marriage.
他是一个不太宽容、又很固执又很受伤的人，所以他并不急于重修婚姻。
But, he was shocked at the same time when they served the divorce papers he never thought that this was really the end.
可是，当他们送达离婚书的同时，他也震惊了，他没想到，这真的就这么结束了。
Narrator : Sara divorced A.P.
旁白：Sara 与 A.P. 离婚
in the fall of 1936, but the trio continued to record.
1936 年秋天，三人组继续录制唱片。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Are you tired of me my darling, answer only with your eyes...
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：你厌倦了我吗，亲爱的，只用你的眼睛回答......
Narrator : Between 1936 and 1937 The Carter Family proved to be consummate professionals recording nearly sixty songs.
旁白：1936 年至 1937 年间，卡特家族录制了近 60 首歌曲，被证明是完美的专业人士。
Joan Baez : They would just fall into a song and, and do it.
琼·贝兹（Joan Baez）：他们会陷入一首歌中，然后就这么做。
I don't know what their lives were like; maybe they couldn't stand each other.
我不知道他们的生活是怎样的；也许他们无法忍受彼此。
But when they sang together, it was really, sort of, a unifying feeling.
但当他们一起唱歌时，确实有一种团结的感觉。
Barry Mazor : And everybody kind of remembers them as the artists of "keep on the sunny side" and domestic bliss.
巴里·马佐：每个人都记得他们是“保持阳光明媚的一面”和家庭幸福的艺术家。
They understood that that's what people wanted them to be and how they were thought of.
他们明白这就是人们希望他们成为的样子以及人们对他们的看法。
Mark Zwonitzer : Mr. Peer made it be known to them that if people did know they were split up that it would have a serious effect on sales and on their career and I don't think they could afford to let that go.
马克·兹沃尼泽：皮尔先生让他们知道，如果人们确实知道他们分手了，这将对销售和他们的职业生涯产生严重影响，我认为他们不能放过这一点。
Narrator : Aside from financial concerns, the Carters had other reasons for controlling their public persona.
旁白：除了财务问题之外，卡特家族控制自己的公众形象还有其他原因。
Marty Stuart : These women were dressed to nines.
马蒂·斯图尔特：这些女人都打扮得很漂亮。
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was dressed, I mean he looked like he stepped off the cover of GQ and the ladies looked like they stepped off the cover of Elle or something I mean they had those hats, those fur collars.
穿着整齐，我的意思是，他看起来就像是从《GQ》封面上走下来的，而女士们看起来就像是从《Elle》封面上走下来的，我是说，她们戴着那些帽子，那些毛领。
Mark Zwonitzer : They weren't playing hillbillies and they weren't playing hayseeds Rural people, people in those mountains they responded to the fact that the Carters represented them with such dignity and with such grace.
马克·兹沃尼策：他们没有扮演乡巴佬，也没有扮演乡巴佬，那些山区的人们对卡特家族以如此尊严和优雅的方式代表他们这一事实做出了反应。
Barry Mazor : One of the modern things about them is the very disconnect between some of what we know about who they were and who the act seems to be and how it was sold which makes them like all modern pop artists.
巴里·马佐（Barry Mazor）：他们的现代特征之一是我们所了解的他们是谁、他们的表演是谁以及如何出售之间的脱节，这使得他们像所有现代流行艺术家一样。
Narrator : Ralph Peer's marketing had worked well but now trapped Sara, Maybelle and A.P.
旁白：拉尔夫·皮尔的营销效果很好，但现在却让莎拉、梅贝尔和 A.P. 陷入困境。
into an image of family and domesticity at odds with the truth of their lives.
陷入与他们生活的真相不一致的家庭和家庭生活的形象。
Despite the private family divide, The Carter Family grew more popular.
尽管存在私人家庭分歧，卡特家族却越来越受欢迎。
In 1938, they got a chance to bring their music to an even wider audience.
1938 年，他们有机会将他们的音乐带给更广泛的听众。
Maybelle, Archival Film : We went to Texas to work for Consolidated Drug company on XERA- it used to be that blasted all over the world.
Maybelle，档案影片：我们去了德克萨斯州，为 XERA 的联合制药公司工作——这家公司曾经风靡全球。
Narrator : XERA, the most powerful of the Border Radio stations, was unlike anything in history.
旁白：XERA，最强大的边境广播电台，与历史上的任何广播电台都不一样。
The station built its five hundred thousand-watt transmitter in Mexico to evade US law restricting broadcast range.
该电台在墨西哥建造了五十万瓦的发射机，以逃避美国限制广播范围的法律。
Radio Announcer, Archival Film : In other words this is station XET Monterey down Mexico way, and now here is that well known and better loved family of radio, The Carter Family, A.P.
广播电台播音员，档案影片：换句话说，这是沿墨西哥方向蒙特利的 XET 电台，现在这里是众所周知且更受喜爱的广播家族，卡特家族 (The Carter Family)、A.P.
Sara, Maybelle Janette, Helen June and Anita ...
萨拉、梅贝尔·珍妮特、海伦·琼和安妮塔……
and it looks like we're on the sunny side.
看起来我们是站在阳光的一边。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side, keep on the sunny side of life.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：保持阳光的一面，永远保持阳光的一面，保持生活阳光的一面。
It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way, if you keep on the sunny side of life.
如果你保持生活阳光的一面，它会帮助我们每一天，它会一路光明。
Narrator : The sounds of the Carter Family could now be heard from New York to California and even into northern Canada.
旁白：卡特家族的声音现在从纽约到加利福尼亚甚至加拿大北部都能听到。
Mary Bufwack : I think the real turning point in the Carter Family comes with the move to, um, Border Radio.
玛丽·布夫瓦克：我认为卡特家族真正的转折点是搬到边境广播电台。
It was a wonderful opportunity for them because it was money coming in constantly but it also really exposed them to just a tremendous audience and of course brought them into what we would consider, them, more commercial country music at the time.
这对他们来说是一个绝佳的机会，因为资金源源不断地进来，但也确实让他们接触到了大量的观众，当然也让他们接触到了我们所认为的、当时更商业化的乡村音乐。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : The sun again will shine bright and clear, keep on the sunny side of life.
卡特一家的歌声，档案影片：阳光将再次明亮而清晰，保持生活阳光明媚的一面。
Always on the sunny side, keep on the sunny side...
永远向阳的一面，保持向阳的一面……
Mark Zwonitzer : People were very, very deeply affected by their music.
Mark Zwonitzer：人们非常非常深受他们的音乐的影响。
They got letters from people that were just amazing.
他们收到了令人惊奇的人的来信。
You know, I hope to meet you in heaven someday and I'm just a poor uneducated person and not good with words, but I want to tell you how much you've meant to me.
你知道，我希望有一天能在天堂见到你，我只是一个没有受过教育、不善言辞的穷人，但我想告诉你你对我有多重要。
Maybelle, Archival Film : Um, mercy, I never saw as much mail in my life, and everyday of the world we'd get mail from every state in the union and when we left and came home we had over 5,000 letters in a box that came in.
Maybelle，档案电影：嗯，天哪，我一生中从未见过这么多邮件，每天我们都会收到来自联邦每个州的邮件，当我们离开并回家时，我们的一个盒子里有超过 5,000 封信件。
Narrator : The power of radio was not lost on Sara Carter.
旁白：萨拉·卡特并没有失去无线电的力量。
Mark Zwonitzer : Nobody quite knows why she did it but one night on the radio, she announced that she'd like to dedicate a song to Coy Bays, her friend in California and she sang I'm Thinking Tonight of My blue Eyes .
马克·兹沃尼策：没有人知道她为什么这么做，但有一天晚上，她在广播中宣布，她想将一首歌曲献给她在加利福尼亚州的朋友科伊·贝斯，她演唱了《我今晚在想我的蓝眼睛》。
Sara Carter Singing, Archival Film : Oh you told me once dear that you loved me, you said that we never would part.
莎拉·卡特 (Sara Carter) 演唱，档案电影：哦，亲爱的，你曾经告诉我你爱我，你说我们永远不会分开。
But a link in the chain has been broken, leaves me with a sad and aching heart.
但链条中的一环已经断裂，让我的心感到悲伤和疼痛。
Oh I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes who is.
哦，今晚我在想我的蓝眼睛是谁。
Narrator : For six years Sara had tried to forget her love for Coy.
旁白：六年来，莎拉一直试图忘记她对科伊的爱。
She thought the relationship was over when he stopped responding to her letters.
当他不再回复她的信时，她以为这段关系已经结束了。
But her letters had not been ignored.
但她的信并没有被忽视。
Coy had never seen them.
科伊从未见过他们。
Mark Zwonitzer : Coy was listening with his family and he turned to his mom and said I'm going to go get her.
马克·兹沃尼策：科伊正在和他的家人一起听，他转向他的妈妈说我要去接她。
And his mom who's the one who had been intercepting these letters, said, well, I guess maybe you better.
他的妈妈就是截获这些信件的人，她说，好吧，我想也许你更好。
Narrator : Coy drove all night to find Sara in Texas.
旁白：科伊连夜开车去德克萨斯州寻找萨拉。
Within three weeks they were married.
三周之内他们就结婚了。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Oh I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes and I wonder if he ever thinks of me...
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：哦，今晚我想起了我的蓝眼睛，我想知道他是否也想过我......
Rita Forrester : I know that my granddad on the day he died loved her every bit as much as he did when he first met her, and that it was always a source of great sadness for him they were apart.
丽塔·福雷斯特：我知道我祖父去世的那天，他对她的爱就像他第一次见到她时一样，而且他们分开总是让他感到巨大的悲伤。
A.P.
美联社
Carter Singing, Archival Film : One little word could have changed my future life, one little word could have made her my wife.
卡特歌唱，档案电影：一句话可以改变我未来的生活，一句话可以让她成为我的妻子。
Too late, too late, now my fondest hopes are dead.
太晚了，太晚了，现在我最大的希望破灭了。
Narrator : After their first radio session, Sara said goodbye to her family and left for California with her new husband.
旁白：第一次广播会议结束后，萨拉告别了家人，和她的新丈夫一起前往加利福尼亚。
For the next few years, recording dates were all that united the Carter Family.
在接下来的几年里，录音日期是卡特一家团结在一起的唯一动力。
Radio announcer, Archival Film : That was A.P.
广播播音员，档案电影：那是 A.P.
playing and singing One Little Word for You .
弹唱《为你一点小话》。
Narrator : In the fall of 1941, Life magazine sent a photographer to Poor Valley, Virginia.
旁白：1941年秋天，《生活》杂志派了一名摄影师到弗吉尼亚州普尔谷。
The Carter family photos would grace the cover of the first December issue.
卡特一家的照片将成为十二月第一期的封面。
Mark Zwonitzer : A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：A.P.
had reached a point that he couldn't even in his wildest imaginings, this was better, this was better, and suddenly they were gonna be on coffee tables all over America.
已经达到了他最疯狂的想象都无法实现的地步，这更好，这更好，突然之间，它们就会出现在美国各地的咖啡桌上。
Narrator : But when the photographer snapped pictures of America's symbol of family and domesticity, the film captured a scene only as deep as the emulsion.
旁白：但是，当摄影师拍摄美国家庭和家庭生活的象征时，胶片只捕捉到了与乳剂一样深的场景。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film :As through this weary world I wander.
卡特家族的歌唱，档案电影：我在这个疲惫的世界中徘徊。
My thoughts alone will be of you.
我的思念只会是你。
In memory I will see you ever I loved you better than you knew.
在记忆中我会见到你，我比你想象的更爱你。
Mark Zwonitzer : You see A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：你看 A.P.
Carter standing a little bit off from the family even in this moment of great triumph, there was also a little bit of sadness that you can almost read in this lone figure standing apart from the rest of the family.
卡特站在离家人有点远的地方，即使在这个伟大胜利的时刻，你几乎可以从这个与家人其他成员分开的孤独人物身上读到一点悲伤。
I don't think it felt to him like he thought it should.
我认为他的感觉并不像他想象的那样。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : You ask and freely I'll forgive you.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：你提出要求，我会自由地原谅你。
The happy past I must forget.
快乐的过去我必须忘记。
And while I wander alone in silence.
当我独自一人默默地漫步时。
I hope that you'll be happy yet.
我希望你还能幸福。
Pearl Harbor narrator, Archival Film : At 7:55 am hell broke lose ...
珍珠港事件旁白，档案电影：上午 7 点 55 分，惨败......
man made hell.
人类创造了地狱。
Made in Japan.
日本制造。
Narrator : Four days before the Carter Family feature was to be released, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
旁白：卡特家族专题片上映前四天，日本袭击了珍珠港。
The Carter Family story was pre-empted by war.
卡特家族的故事因战争而先发制人。
Bill Clifton : Now had the Japanese waited till January, the Carter Family would have been the talk of every family in America.
比尔·克利夫顿：现在，如果日本人等到一月，卡特家族就会成为美国每个家庭的话题。
What would have happened to their records sales?
他们的唱片销量会发生什么变化？
What would have happened to personal appearances?
个人形象会发生什么变化？
I have no doubt that it would have completely changed the history of Carter Family Music.
我毫不怀疑这将彻底改变卡特家族音乐的历史。
Narrator : Without the exposure Life magazine offered, the picture of the Carter Family was unclear.
旁白：如果没有《生活》杂志的曝光，卡特一家的形象就不清楚了。
Sara, would again determine their fate.
萨拉，将再次决定他们的命运。
Mark Zwonitzer : While she always loved the music she couldn't stand all the folderol, as she put it, she couldn't stand the celebrity.
Mark Zwonitzer：虽然她一直很喜欢音乐，但她无法忍受所有的文件夹，正如她所说，她无法忍受名人。
She couldn't stand the demands, after awhile it was too much for her.
她无法忍受这些要求，过了一段时间，这对她来说就太过分了。
Narrator : In the spring of 1943, Sara sang her last song with the Original Carter Family.
旁白：1943 年春天，萨拉与原始卡特家族一起唱了她的最后一首歌。
The trio never performed or recorded together again.
三人再也没有一起表演或录音。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : And through this weary world I wander, my thoughts alone will be of you.
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：在这个疲惫的世界中我徘徊，我的思绪只会是你。
In memory, I will see you ever.
记忆里，我一定会见到你。
I loved you better than you knew.
我比你想象的更爱你。
Narrator : Sara lived out the rest of her life in the simplicity and domesticity the Carter Family had come to represent.
旁白：萨拉在卡特家族所代表的简朴和家庭生活中度过了余生。
Maybelle pursued her own vision starting a new act with her daughters, Helen, June and Anita.
梅贝尔追求自己的梦想，与她的女儿海伦、琼和安妮塔开始了新的事业。
Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters toured worldwide with greats like Chet Atkins and June Carter's husband, Johnny Cash.
梅贝尔妈妈和卡特姐妹与切特·阿特金斯和琼·卡特的丈夫约翰尼·卡什等伟人一起进行了世界各地的巡演。
After nearly fifty years in the business Maybelle Carter would come to be regarded as the "Queen Mother of Country Music."
经过近五十年的从业生涯，梅贝尔·卡特逐渐被视为“乡村音乐女王”。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Everybody's got to walk that lonesome Valley They've got to walk it by theirselves There's nobody here...
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：每个人都必须走那条孤独的山谷他们必须自己走这里没有人......
Narrator : A.P.
旁白：A.P.
Carter returned to Poor Valley alone.
卡特独自回到穷谷。
His genius and drive had saved the most significant catalog of music in American history.
他的天才和干劲拯救了美国历史上最重要的音乐目录。
But his ambition also cost him everything he loved, most notably, the voice of his vision, Sara.
但他的野心也让他失去了所爱的一切，尤其是他梦想的声音萨拉。
Bill Clifton : He always dreamed that one day she'd walk back in.
比尔·克利夫顿：他一直梦想着有一天她会回来。
She never did.
她从来没有这样做过。
And that was the saddest part.
这是最悲伤的部分。
It wasn't just the music, it was the loss of her and the music.
这不仅仅是音乐，还有她和音乐的损失。
The two of them were overpowering.
两人的实力都是压倒性的。
Mark Zwonitzer : A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：A.P.
Carter was the man who picked up this family put them on his back and he hauled them to renown, and the sad thing was for him that everybody got what they wanted in the end except for A.P.
卡特是那个把这个家庭扛在肩上、让他们声名鹊起的人，对他来说可悲的是，除了 A.P. 之外，每个人最终都得到了他们想要的东西。
Carter.
卡特.
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Will you miss me when I'm gone?
卡特家庭歌唱、档案电影：我走后你会想念我吗？
Will you miss me when I'm gone?
当我离开后你会想念我吗？
Will you miss me when I'm gone?
当我离开后你会想念我吗？
Will you miss me when I'm gone?
当我离开后你会想念我吗？
Rita Forrester : There was some sadness on his part that maybe the music didn't do everything he wanted it to do in his lifetime.
丽塔·福雷斯特：他感到有些悲伤，也许音乐没有实现他一生中想要的一切。
But, I believe he knew that after he was gone that it would continue.
但是，我相信他知道，在他离开后，这种情况还会继续。
Mark Zwonitzer : When A.P.
马克·兹沃尼策 (Mark Zwonitzer)：当 A.P.
carter died in 1960 he was something of a forgotten man, if you can believe this one of the local newspapers didn't even run an obituary of this incredibly important cultural figure, but he was a guy who was always had faith, he always believed that he would be remembered.
卡特于 1960 年去世，他是一个被遗忘的人，如果你相信的话，当地报纸甚至没有刊登这位极其重要的文化人物的讣告，但他是一个始终有信仰的人，他始终相信他会被记住。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Will you miss me when I'm gone?
卡特家庭歌唱、档案电影：我走后你会想念我吗？
Will you miss me when I'm gone?
当我离开后你会想念我吗？
Narrator : This time it was A.P.
旁白：这次是 A.P.
Carter's prophecy that was fulfilled.
卡特的预言应验了。
Janette Carter : He asked me to keep his music going, to try to do his, to keep his music going.
珍妮特·卡特：他要求我让他的音乐继续下去，努力做他的，让他的音乐继续下去。
It took me a few years to start.
我花了几年时间才开始。
Janette Carter singing : Used to live in the country, now I live in town.
珍妮特卡特唱歌：以前住在乡下，现在住在城里。
Lord how in a big hotel, my name is Jimmy Brown.
天哪，在一家大酒店里，我叫吉米·布朗。
Mark Zwonitzer : The Carter Family music is everywhere and somewhere on the stage tonight, somebody's going to get up and do a Carter Family song.
Mark Zwonitzer：今晚舞台上的某个地方到处都是卡特家族的音乐，有人会站起来唱卡特家族的歌曲。
Various Country Artists, Archival Film : Will the circle be unbroken, will the circle be unbroken, will the circle be unbroken bye and by Lord, bye and bye...
各种乡村艺术家，档案电影：圆会不会被打破，圆会不会被打破，圆会不会被打破再见，上帝，再见，再见......
Gillian Welch : I have a very hard time picturing American music and in fact world music without The Carter Family.
阿娇·韦尔奇：我很难想象没有卡特家族的美国音乐，甚至世界音乐。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : Lord I told you...
卡特家庭歌唱，档案电影：主啊，我告诉过你......
.
。
Gillian Welch : Modern music starts crumbling if you start taking away all the people who were so deeply influenced by the Carters.
阿娇·韦尔奇：如果你开始带走所有深受卡特家族影响的人，现代音乐就会开始崩溃。
Vince Gill : Drive slow ...
文斯·吉尔：开慢点……
for that body that you are holding, Lord I hate to see her go ...
对于你所持有的身体，主啊，我不愿意看到她离开......
Will the circle be unbroken.
圆圈是否会不间断。
June Carter Cash : They had so many tunes that formed a basis for Country Western music as we know it today.
琼·卡特·卡什 (June Carter Cash)：他们创作的许多歌曲构成了我们今天所知的乡村西部音乐的基础。
And when people didn't know what kind of melody to use, they just went back and grabbed that old Carter Family melody and hung on to that.
当人们不知道该使用什么样的旋律时，他们只是回去抓住卡特家族的老旋律并坚持下去。
Carter Family Singing, Archival Film : In the sky lord, in the sky ...
卡特家族歌声，档案电影：在天空领主，在天空......
Marty Stuart : I was coming home, And the Ernest Tubbs Record shop was on and out of nowhere here comes a Carter Family record.
马蒂·斯图尔特：我正要回家，欧内斯特·塔布斯唱片店开门了，突然出现了一张卡特家族的唱片。
It was like ghosts were in the car with me.
就像鬼魂和我一起在车里一样。
That's how much power their records have.
这就是他们的记录有多大的力量。
That's how much I think they're anointed, is the word.
这就是我认为他们被膏抹的程度。
They' re heaven sent.
他们是上天派来的。
Various Country Artists, Archival Film : ...
各种乡村艺术家，档案电影：...
will the circle be unbroken by and by lord, by and by, there's a better home a waitin' in the sky lord, in the sky ...
主啊，这个圆圈会不会被打破，渐渐地，会有一个更好的家在天空中等待着主啊，在天空中……
Text : Sara and Maybelle reunited briefly during the folk revival movement of the 1960's.
文本：Sara 和 Maybelle 在 1960 年代的民间复兴运动期间短暂重逢。
Maybelle Carter died in 1978.
梅贝尔·卡特于 1978 年去世。
She is buried outside of Nashville Tennessee.
她被埋葬在田纳西州纳什维尔郊外。
Sara Carter Bays died in 1979.
萨拉·卡特·贝斯于 1979 年去世。
She is buried in Poor Valley, Virginia.
她被埋葬在弗吉尼亚州普尔谷。
Hundreds of people from all over the world visit the Carter Fold and A.P.
来自世界各地的数百人参观了 Carter Fold 和 A.P.
Carter's grave every weekend.
每个周末卡特的坟墓。
The songs that earned only a few hundred dollars a year in royalties at the time of A.P.'s death, are now among the most valuable copyrights in all American music.
在 A.P. 去世时，这些歌曲每年仅赚取几百美元的版税，但现在已成为所有美国音乐中最有价值的版权之一。
Follow this musical family through three generations and learn about their many contributions to American music.
跟随这个音乐家族的三代人，了解他们对美国音乐的许多贡献。
Grammy winning musician Gillian Welch describes and demonstrates the influential techniques of the Carter family.
格莱美获奖音乐家吉莉安·韦尔奇 (Gillian Welch) 描述并展示了卡特家族颇具影响力的技巧。
Early in childhood Alvin Pleasant (A.P.) learned to play the violin, and it soon became clear that he was a natural musician.
阿尔文·普莱森特（Alvin Pleasant，A.P.）在童年早期就学会了拉小提琴，很快就发现他是一位天生的音乐家。
Ralph Peer's first Southern hit was fiddler John Carson from Atlanta, Georgia, whose first recording of The Little Old Log Cabin and The Old Hen Cackled sold more than 500,000 copies nationwide.
拉尔夫·皮尔 (Ralph Peer) 的第一首南方热门歌曲是来自佐治亚州亚特兰大的小提琴手约翰·卡森 (John Carson)，他的首张唱片《The Little Old Log Cabin》和《The Old Hen Cackled》在全国销量超过 500,000 张。
The Carters crisscrossed the country, traveling to New Jersey in 1929 and 1933 for additional recording sessions, and to Louisville in 1931 to record with Jimmie Rodgers.
卡特夫妇走遍全国，于 1929 年和 1933 年前往新泽西州进行额外的录音，并于 1931 年前往路易斯维尔与吉米·罗杰斯 (Jimmie Rodgers) 一起录音。
By 1938 the Carters' fortunes were on the wane; then came the Consolidated Royal Chemical Corporation offer for a twice daily radio show, for the princely sum of $75 each per week.
到了 1938 年，卡特夫妇的财富开始走下坡路。随后，联合皇家化学公司提出提供每天两次的广播节目，每周收费 75 美元。
Nearly struck by lightning during her pregnancy, Mollie Carter forever after will ascribe A.P.'s tremor, and the quaver for which his singing will become known, to that near miss.
莫莉·卡特（Mollie Carter）在怀孕期间差点被闪电击中，从此以后，莫莉·卡特（Mollie Carter）将永远将 A.P. 的颤抖以及他的歌声中的颤抖归咎于那次险些失手。
Hard living, good fun, independent spirits, strong women and lots of music defined generations of Carters and Bays in Clinch Mountain, Virginia.
艰苦的生活、快乐的生活、独立的精神、坚强的女性和大量的音乐定义了弗吉尼亚州克林奇山的几代卡特斯和贝斯。