Anita carter
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The Carter Family: A Chronology
1942-1955
DRAFT May 2010
Compiled from Billboard and Variety
by Wayne W. Daniel
1946 December 7, 1946, BB, p. 104. Maybelle Carter and her three daughters, who are known as the Carter Family, live in Richmond, Va., and broadcast over WRNL.
1947 March 22, BB, p. 106. A favorite with Virginia radio listeners is The Old Dominion Barn Dance which is broadcast daily over Station WRVA, Richmond, from 2 to 4 p.m. The group includes the Rangers Quartet, consisting of Sue; her husband, Johnnie; Sam Workman and Cousin Crazy Joe Maphis, guitar and fiddle; the Carter Sisters, June, Helen and Anita with Mother Maybelle; the Tobbaco Tags, Loony Luke, Roly Poly Reed
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Carter Family
Traditional American folk music group
This article is about the folk music group. For the second-generation band, see The Carter Sisters. For Beyoncé and Jay Z, see The Carters. For other people with the surname, see Carter (surname).
The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound influence on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock music, as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s.
They were the first vocal group to become country music stars, and were among the first groups to record commercially produced country music. Their first recordings were made in Bristol, Tennessee, for the Victor Talking Machine Company under producer Ralph Peer on August 1, 1927. This was the day before country singer Jimmie Rodgers made his initial recordings for Victor under Peer.
The success of the Carter Family's recordings of songs such as "Wabash Cannonball", "Can the Circle Be Unbroken", "Wildwood Flower", "Keep on the Sunny Side", and "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" ma
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Early Lives and Formation of the Trio
Alvin Pleasant Delaney “A. P.” Carter grew up in Scott County, Virginia, just a few miles from the Virginia–Tennessee border. His family farmed. His father was a well-respected banjo player, and his mother sang old folk ballads; an uncle, Flanders Bays, who taught singing schools for local churches, showed A. P. how to read the old shape note songbooks (many of which provided gospel songs for the Carter repertoire). By 1915, after traveling around the country, A. P. returned home to start selling fruit trees; at about this time, he met Sara Dougherty. According to family legend, at the time she was sitting under a tree, playing her autoharp, and singing “Engine 143.” After a courtship, the pair were married on June 18, 1915.
For the next several years, the young couple entertained informally in the neighborhood, often at churches; unlike many of the older mountain singers, who often sang unaccompanied, the Carters backed their singing with their guitar and autoharp; occasionally A. P. e
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