Mother Maybelle Carter
Lonestar Ranch, Reeds Ferry, New Hampshire, 1973
The Carter Family (Maybelle, her cousin Sara, and
Sara's husband and Maybelle's husband's brother A.P.) was one of the
foundation acts of country music. Their story is legendary, beginning
with their first recordings in Bristol, Tennessee, in 1927, the same
session that introduced the "Singing Brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers.
Songs they popularized became country music classics, from "Wildwood
Flower" to "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" And you can
still hear Mother Maybelle's patented single-note guitar style in
many folk, country and even rock-and-roll recordings. That's daughter
Helen on the accordian. |
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