The degree to which Mother Maybelle's guitar playing influenced the next century of country and roots music cannot be overstated. In this... Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music Born in ...

A.P. Carter is born in Poor Valley (known now as Maces Springs), Virginia, the first of eight children of Robert and Mollie Bays Carter. Nearly struck by lightning during her pregnancy, Mollie forever ...

With the Carter Family,, music publisher Ralph Peer realized he had hit pay dirt. By 1930 Carter Family records had sold more than 700,000 copies across the country, and more music was in the works.

If influential Appalachian songbird Sara Carter were still alive, she would have turned 126 years old today, July 21. Carter was an original member of The Carter Family. She was the autoharp ...