Moonshine Kate

Moonshine Kate ( born October 10, 1909 in Atlanta, Georgia, as Rosa Lee Carson, † 1992 in Bainbridge, Georgia ) was an American Old-time musician. It owes its name to a song her father Fiddlin ' John Carson, Moonshine Kate. It is considered the first woman who was successful in country music.

Life

Rosa Lee Carson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of nine children. Her father came originally from the Fannin County, Georgia. The age of five she was on stage. At 14 she mastered the guitar and the banjo perfect. She first appeared on the radio they had the early 1920s with her father at WSB in Atlanta.

The first recording made ​​Rosa Lee at the age of 15 years at the Okeh Records, where her father also already recorded his legendary plates. With him she also toured as far away as Mexico and Canada. At the same time she took with the Virginia Reelers that her and her father's backing band, countless plates for OKeh and Bluebird records on approximately 170 Two of her most famous titles My is Man's A Jolly Railroad Man from 1931 and Little Maggy Paran, which on the story of a 1914 murder in Atlanta based girl. The name Moonshine Kate, however, had adopted as early as 1928. However, after 1931 their successful days were gone, only with her father she took on title. In addition, both took part in political campaigns, in which they were engaged as an entertainer. Such an approach was not uncommon in the 1930s and 1940s. Gid Tanner also exerted similar activities from after 1934. This fact was also in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? taken up. 1944 Moonshine Kate married Wayne Johnson.

Moonshine Kate died in 1992 at the age of 83 years in Bainbridge. She was with her father along the first artist who was inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame.

Discography

This discography is unvollstängig, since there is no complete list of titles.

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