Biography

Most music historians trace country's two main strands to its first superstars: blue yodeler Jimmie Rodgers, and balladeers the Carter Family. Their classic repertoire, haunting vocal harmonies, and Maybelle's distinctive guitar style have kept their old-time music relevant and moving to the modern day. The original group broke up in 1943, and the name was adapted by one member (Mother Maybelle) and her three daughters (June Carter Cash among them), and various combination of Carters performed and recorded in the '50s and '60s.

Top Tracks

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• Angel Band

• Arkansas Traveller/blue Railroad Train/shortenin' Bread

• Bile Them Cabbage Down

• Black Jack David

• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow

• Can The Circle Be Unbroken (bye And Bye)

• Chinese Breakdown

• Coal Miner's Blues

• East Virginia Blues

• East Virginia Blues No. 2

• Engine 143

• Gold Watch And Chain

• Hello Stranger

• Hold Fast To The Right

• Honey In The Rock

• I'm Sitting On Top Of The World

• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes

• I'm Working On A Building

• In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain

• In The Shadow Of The Pines

• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy

• Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy

• John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man

• Keep On The Sunny Side

• Keep On The Sunnyside

• Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine

• Little Liza Jane

• Little Moses

• Lonesome Homesick Blues

• Lonesome Pine Special

• Lonesome Valley

• March Of Dimes Introduction/moanin' The Blues/help Me ...

• Midnight On The Stormy Deep

• My Clinch Mountain Home

• My Dixie Darling

• My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains

• My Old Virginia Home

• Never Let The Devil Get The Upper Hand Of You

• No Depression

• No Depression In Heaven

• Railroading On The Great Divide

• Room In Heaven For Me

• Single Girl, Married Girl

• Something Got A Hold Of Me

• The Cannonball

• The Church In The Wildwood

• The Cyclone Of Rye Cove

• The Grave On The Green Hillside

• The Little Black Train

• The Storms Are On The Ocean

• The Titanic

• The Wayworn Traveller

• There'll Be No Distinction There

• Wabash Cannonball

• Wade In The Water

• When Silver Threads Are Gold Again

• When The Springtime Comes Again

• Wildwood Flower

• Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven/on A Hill Lone And Gray

• Worried Man Blues

• You Are My Flower

• You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down

• You've Been A Friend To Me

Discography

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• In Memory of A.P. Carter

  Acme

  1960