The carter family biography

The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between and 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 s. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars. Their recordings of such songs as "Wabash Cannonball", "Can the Circle Be Unbroken", "Wildwood Flower" and "Keep On the Sunny Side" made them country standards.

Family groups have always been a staple of popular music in America, but none has blazed a more influential trail than the Carter Family of Maces Springs, Virginia.

The Carters--A. P., his wife Sara, and his sister-in-law Maybelle--brought their Blue Ridge mountain ballads to nationwide audiences during the Great Depression, creating a rich trove of folk songs that are sung and performed to this day.

According to John Atkins in Stars of Country Music, the Carters' style and repertoire "provide much of t