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The Carter Family

Engine 143

Country
  • Folk
  • Country
  • Soundtrack
  • Space
  • Musical
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  • 1927
  • 2002
  • 1929
  • 1928
  • 2012

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The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, southern gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars. Their recordings of such songs as “Wabash Cannonball”, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”, “Wildwood Flower” and “Keep On the Sunny Side” made them country standards. The original group consisted of Alvin Pleasant “A.P.“ Delaney Carter (1891–1960), his wife Sara Dougherty Carter (1898–1979), and his sister-in-law Maybelle Addington Carter (1909–1978). Maybelle was married to A.P.‘s brother Ezra (Eck) Carter and was also Sara’s first cousin. All three were... Read on...

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More songs by The Carter Family (See Charts): Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Wildwood Flower, The Winding Stream, Keep On The Sunny Side, and I Wouldn'T Mind Dying.

Popular in Country (See Charts): I Walk The Line, Hurt, Ring Of Fire, You Are, Two Brothers, Always On My Mind, Take Me Home Country Roads, Coat Of Many Colors, Way Down, and I Cross My Heart.

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