Yes, that's an important distinction, but I find it difficult to
categorize the Carter Family's music. Generally they fell into what the
record companies in the 1920s dubbed "old time" music, which encompassed
an assortment of things: string bands playing fiddle and banjo tunes,
British and American balladry, gospel hymns, and more. The Carter's
vocals certainly owed much to the Southern singing-school tradition.
All had attended such schools and/or conventions and several Carter
songs first appeared in the late nineteenth-century tunebooks of the
Ruebush-Kieffer Co. of Dayton, Virginia, one of the most dynamic
shape-note songbook publishers. The Carters also recast popular
Victorian tunes and learned some blues and other tunes from an
African-American associate of A.P. Carter, Leslie Riddle. I think it's
the whole package that's innovative, making new music that somehow
sounded as old as the hills. Maybelle's primary guitar style is also
distinctive, sometimes called the "Carter Scratch."
Gregg
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Not that they did not play blue grass but the Carter family's genre was
"mountain music" or "country music." and they were well known before
the distinctive blue grass sound was developed out of mountain music by
Bill Monroe and advanced by others such as Earl Scruggs.
Richard E. Dixon
Clifton, VA 20124-2115
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> [Original Message]
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> Date: 1/4/2006 10:08:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Great/Important Virginian
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> You're probably aware of Johnny Cash. He married June Carter, one of
the Carter family daughters. This Carter family was instrumental (ooh,
there's an unintended pun) in bringing their version of Scotch-Irish
mountain music --otherwise known as Blue Grass-- to the world's
attention.
>
> Joanne
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> Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've never heard of the Carter family, or perhaps I need to know
> some of their tunes to recognize them.
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> May I suggest Bo Jangles Robinson for his contributions to the arts.
>
> Anne
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