Sara & Maybelle Carter
Artist: Sara & Maybelle Carter
Date: August 24, 2010
The Carter Family remain first among firsts, the earliest, greatest and preeminent fountainhead of country music. A.P., Sara and Maybelle Carter didn’t invent country music, but they were its first undisputed superstars, carrying a haunting sound from generations of backwoods performances and shape-note hymn recitations intro the nascent realm of radio broadcasts and phonograph disks. Within the joyous, doleful, inventive and unique songs of the Carter Family, much of rural America recognized the voices of its own rich background and hardscrabble experience. While the Carter’s songs may have struck unprepared, urbanite ears as raw, coarse and foreign, in Appalachia and... Read More
- Genre:
- Country, Traditional Country, Old-Timey
- City Of Origin:
- Nashville, ,Tennessee United States
- Formed Date:
- 1927
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