The Carters' Questions

From my personal department of compulsive research, in response to a Facebook post about questions in song titles.

Here's an idea for an (as far as I know) nonexistent album, YouTube playlist, or master's thesis, titled: "Uncertainties: The questioning songs of the Carter Family."

• "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?"
• "Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven"
• "Will My Mother Know Me There?"
• "Why Do You Cry, Little Darling"
• "Can* the Circle Be Unbroken"
• "Where Shall I Be?"
• "Happy Or Lonesome" (The lyric asks, "Are you still happy, I wonder, or are you lonesome too?")

Of course, some of those questions might be described as faith-based with positive answers rhetorically implied; the Carters' discography at Wikipedia doesn't always include question marks.

* And then there's the "Will" versus "Can" story about that presumably unbroken circle, explored by the Birthplace of Country Music Museum: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, history of a song. Here are the original lyrics and the Carter Family version.

Electric Tiple!

("Tiplista" Timmie Rogers & band... Photo from YouTube post)

https://youtu.be/Z1RCRIgiqak?si=gWcT3Jk70khYwZ4G

A decade or so after this recording, Timmie Rogers appeared singing duets with Redd Foxx on Sanford and Son, and playing that 10-string tiple -- the only time I've seen one on television.

The career retrospective in still images accompanying this YouTube video show more of his tiples, even if the amplified 10 string instrument isn't very audible over piano, drums and horns of the band in this recording.

Technical note.. I'm posting this with my phone and the Android Blogger app doesn't show me an obvious way to embed the video rather than just present a link. I'll come back with a computer later and edit this. For now, the post begins the link address simply paste it as text, and it ends below with the same link activated as an "open in a nw window' link using the app. I'm curious what the difference will be, and whether one or the other is easier to turn into an embedded video on the page.

https://youtu.be/Z1RCRIgiqak?si=gWcT3Jk70khYwZ4G