Maybelle Carter

"Mother" Maybelle Carter ( born May 10, 1909 in Nickelsville, Virginia as Maybelle Addington, † October 23, 1978 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American country musician and singer and member of the Carter Family.

Biography

Family and Childhood

Maybelle Carter was born in 1909 as Maybelle Addington in Virginia, the daughter of Hugh Jackson Addington and Margaret S. Kilgore. The branch of Addington family in Virginia is descended from former British prime minister Henry Addington. In March 1926 Maybelle Addington Carter J. Ezra married. The couple had three daughters, Helen, June and Anita.

The Carter Family

Maybelle Carter founded in 1927 along with her brother-in AP Carter and his wife, Sara Carter, the Carter Family, the leading country vocal group of the 1930s and early 1940s. Maybelle Carter played in the group banjo and autoharp and created with its innovative guitar technique in which she used the thumb to play the melody and the remaining fingers to the rhythm, the unmistakable sound of the Carter Family. The Carter Family disbanded in 1943.

Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters

Maybelle Carter made ​​with her daughters June, Helen and Anita Carter as "Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters" continue; after the death of A. P. Carter 1960, she reappeared under the old name " The Carter Family " and worked among other things as accompanying singers for Johnny Cash, June Carter married in the March 1968.

Maybelle Carter was a permanent member of the Grand Ole Opry and moved in the 1960s during the folk revival again in the public eye. 1967 their joint appearance with Sara Carter at the Newport Folk Festival was greeted with thunderous applause. In 1972, she appeared on the album Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Nitty Gritty with the Dirt Band.

Death

Maybelle Carter died in 1978 and was buried in the Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville (Tennessee), where later her daughter June and her son Johnny Cash were buried.

Posthumous fame

1993 Maybelle Carter's image on a postage stamp in the United States was printed in honor of the Carter Family. 2001 Maybelle Carter was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. In 2002 she was of Country Music Television - CMT chosen number 8 in the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music.

In 2005, she was depicted in the biopic Walk the Line by actress Sandra Ellis Lafferty.

Discography

  • 2000 - In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain - 12 - CD box
  • 1997 - Wildwood Pickin '
  • 1967 - A Historic Reunion: Sara And Maybelle - The Original Carters
  • 1964 - Queen Of The Autoharp
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