The Carter Family, known as the First Family of Country Music, originally included A.P. Carter, his wife Sara, and her cousin Maybelle. Active in the 1920s and ’30s, they helped shape country and folk ...
In early August of 1927, Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, his wife Sara and his sister-in-law Maybelle made the bumpy trip on rutted roads from their home in Maces Springs, Virginia to Bristol, ...
She was country music royalty, but June Carter Cash never left her Appalachian roots far behind. In her final recording, Wildwood Flower, she reached back to those roots by including several classics ...