Maybelle Carter was a member of the original Carter Family act from the late 1920s until the early 1940s and a member of the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle group.
18 Facts About Maybelle Carter
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Maybelle Carter was born Maybelle Addington on May 10,1909, in Nickelsville, Virginia, the daughter of Margaret Elizabeth and Hugh Jackson Addington.
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Maybelle Carter briefly reunited with former Carter Family member Sara Carter during the 1960s folk music craze, with Sara singing lead and Maybelle providing harmony as before in their 1966 reunion album.
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Maybelle Carter made occasional solo recordings during the 1960s and 1970s, usually full-length albums.
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Maybelle Carter was featured on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 recording Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
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Maybelle Carter died in 1978 after a few years of poor health and was interred next to her husband, Ezra, in Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
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Maybelle Carter once filled in for Jimmie Rodgers during a recording session, perfectly mimicking his guitar playing style, in 1932.
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Maybelle Carter recorded her signature guitar piece, "Wildwood Flower," on numerous occasions, beginning with the original 1928 version.
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Maybelle Carter's final recording in the slide guitar style was "My Old Cottage Home" in 1931.
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Maybelle Carter began tinkering with it as early as the age of four but did not turn a serious focus toward the instrument until around 1940.
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Maybelle Carter worked with the Original Carter Family from about 1926 until about 1943 on personal appearances, radio shows, and commercial recordings.
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Maybelle Carter sang on two or three of the first six songs recorded by the family in 1927.
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Maybelle Carter performed with this group, mostly with her three daughters but in various other versions of the group as well, from the late 1930s and early 1940s almost until she died in 1978.
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Maybelle Carter was elected with the Original Carter Family to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970.
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The Carter Family received the "Favorite Country Group" trophy from the American Music Awards in 1973.
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Maybelle Carter received the "Acoustic Pioneer Award" from Frets Magazine in 1986.
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The Original Carter Family were inducted into the International Bluegrass Association's Hall of Honor in 2001 and were -given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2005.
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In 2007 Maybelle Carter was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History" for her musical career.