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  Encyclopedia: Maces Springs, Virginia
Maces Springs is a small settlement on Route 614, a spur off Route 421 that cuts through Poor Valley, in Scott County, Virginia.
There are now no stores in Maces Springs and its main claim to fame is its association with the country music group, the Carter Family.
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter also known as "Doc" or "AP" was born in Maces Springs and in 1914 he brought his sixteen year old bride Sara Dougherty Carter to live there.
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 June Carter Cash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was born in Maces Springs, Virginia and played guitar, banjo, and autoharp.
In March, 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together after the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters with her daughters Helen Carter, Anita Carter, and June.
After a short stay in southwest Virginia, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters headed off to Knoxville, Tennessee where they had yet another radio contract on WNOX.
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 june carter cash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter) (June 23, 1929 - May 15, 2003), middle daughter of Ezra (Eck) Carter and Maybelle Carter (Mother Maybelle), was a singer, songwriter, a member of the first country music recording stars, the Carter Family, and married to legendary singer Johnny Cash.
In the winter of 1938-1939 the Carter Family travelled to Texas where they had a twice-daily program on border radio station XERA (later XERF) in Villa Acuña (now Ciudad Acuña;), Mexico, across the border from Del Rio, Texas.
In March, 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together after the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters with her daughters Helen, Anita, and June.
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 American Experience | The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken | Timeline | PBS
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.
July 21: Sara Dougherty is born in Wise County, Virginia, to Sevier and Elizabeth Kilgore Dougherty.
The Bristol Sessions is the beginning of the Carters' long association with the Victor executive and record scout Ralph Peer, and the beginning of their careers as professional musicians.
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 f o l k l i n k s . c o m
The state line separating Virginia and Tennessee runs right down the middle of State Street in the center of downtown Bristol - an Appalachian crossroads with a combined population of 42,000.
In the summer of 1927, when the population of the twin cities was 25,000 and automobile rides were more an adventure than a sport, the recording sessions that first documented country music pioneers Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family took place in a vacant hat warehouse on the Tennessee side of State Street.
Would he consider Bristol, Virginia and Tennessee, "the birthplace of country music?" Probably not, yet the historical record indicates that he and the musicians who found their way to his temporary studio during those historic two weeks gave the richness of Appalachian music its first significant showcase.
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 SKIP POP SCRATCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
June Carter was born June 23, 1929 in Maces Springs, Virginia.
Her mother, along with her aunt Sarah and Uncle A.P. made up the Carter Family, the first family of country music and music was one of the most important things in their lives.
The family moved from the mountains and the girls Virginia drawls and odd slang terms made them the butts of everyone’s jokes.
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 American Experience | The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken | People & Events | PBS
Alvin Pleasant Carter was born in Poor Valley (known now as Maces Springs), Virginia, in 1891, the first of eight children of Robert and Mollie Bays Carter.
From birth Pleasant -- or A.P., as he would later be known -- suffered from a physical tremor, as well as a constitutional restlessness, which his mother ascribed to a near miss by a bolt of lightning while she was pregnant.
Sara's mother died when she was three years old, and the young girl spent the better part of her childhood hopscotching around Virginia with her father from one relative's house to another.
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 RealCountryMusic.org :: Forums
The Southwest Virginia based band began in 1994 as a contra dance band but gradually started to incorporate sounds from the British Isles into their music combining it with traditional Appalachian fare.
Master storyteller Bil Lepp of South Charleston, West Virginia is a side-splittingly funny man. Lepp was the winner of the West Virginia liar's contest so often that he was made the emcee to give other contestants a chance.
Dale Jett of Maces Springs, Virginia is the third musical generation of his family, being the son of Janette Carter, and the grandson of A.P. and Sara Carter of the original Carter Family.
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 Maces Springs, Virginia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Maces Springs, Virginia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
There are now no stores in Maces Springs and its main claim to fame is its association with the (A simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments) country music group, the (Click link for more info and facts about Carter Family) Carter Family.
(Click link for more info and facts about Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter) Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter also known as "Doc" or "AP" was born in Maces Springs and in 1914 he brought his sixteen year old bride (Click link for more info and facts about Sara Dougherty Carter) Sara Dougherty Carter to live there.
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 Carter Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All three were born and raised in southwestern Virginia where they were immersed in the tight harmonies of mountain gospel music and shape note singing.
The Carters got their start on July 31, 1927 when A.P. convinced Sara and Maybelle (pregnant at the time) to make the journey from Maces Springs, Virginia to Bristol, Tennessee to audition for record producer Ralph Peer who was seeking new talent for the relatively embryonic recording industry.
Realizing that he would benefit financially with each new song he collected and copyrighted, A.P. travelled around the southwestern Virginia area in search of new songs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carter_Family   (871 words)

  
 ap carter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
His death went almost unnoticed in 1960 in the midst of THAT year's presidential election (another close one with two guys named Nixon and Kennedy).
It was only after he died in his hometown of Maces Springs, Virginia that A.P. Carter received the recognition and credit that he was due as a pioneer in American music.
He did not live to see his family's name become synonymous with a music form, or to be inducted (belatedly) into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970, but his influence lives on.
www.maninblack.net /Mhic/ap_carter.htm   (117 words)

  
 drunkards plea
The Original Carter Family was headed by A.P. Carter of Maces Springs, Virginia, and included his wife Sara, and Sara's cousin, Maybelle, who also was married to A.P.'s brother Ezra ("Eck").
In the summer of 1941, while on break from the Texas gig, Eck took Maybelle and his girls on a personal appearance tour in southeastern Virginia.
On occasion, he would silently appear in the back of an auditorium where his nieces and sister-in-law were playing, never saying a word, and never performed with them.
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 Independent, The (London): Obituary: Anita Carter
Maybelle and her daughters, working as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, were based successively in Richmond, Virginia, Knoxville, Tennessee - where they were joined by a soon-to-be-famous young fiddle player and guitarist named Chet Atkins - and Springfield, Missouri.
Anita Carter was a long-time champion of the music of the original Carter Family, and in 1979 she played an important role in putting together a documentary in tribute to her mother who had died the previous year, The Unbroken Circle: a tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter.
Although Helen Carter died last year, the Carter Family name looks set, courtesy of the next generation of Carters, to be a high profile one in the future.Ina Anita Carter, singer and bass player: born Maces Springs, Virginia 31 March 1933; four times married (one son, one daughter); died Goodlettsville, Tennessee 29 July 1999.
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 In the Country of Country
Although it is true that Jimmie Rodgers was born in the deep-country village of Pine Springs, Mississippi, in 1897, and after his mother died spent the better part of several years living there with his spinster aunt Dora, he claimed Meridian as his hometown.
When Rodgers went back out to Pine Springs, other kids sometimes felt that he was "stuck-up" because, as the child of one of his schoolmates told me at the Shurleys' party, Rodgers didn't like to play baseball and wore shoes in warm weather while everybody else went barefoot.
As the title of one of his great songs suggests, he was a cheerful sort, happy to bend an elbow in the company of all sorts of rounders and roustabouts with "rough and rowdy ways." This sort of frowsy living began early in his life, well before Rodgers became a railroad man himself.
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 RealCountryMusic.org :: Forums
The Birthplace of Country Music Alliance is funded in part by grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Her self-produced fiddle album, (http://www.rayna.utopiandesign.com/cd.html) Ways of the World, was released in the Spring of 2000 to critical acclaim.
The states of Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, are, or have been, represented by ETSU students, as well as neighboring Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina.
realcountrymusic.org /cgi/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=26381   (1304 words)

  
 Maybelle Carter Was Born On This Date In 1909
The purpose of the trip was to record for Victor talent scout Ralph Peer, who was conducting a 10-day session in a leased storefront on State Street.
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, born in Maces Springs, Virginia, December 15, 1891, died November 7, 1960.
Sara Dougherty Carter Bayes, born in Flat Woods, Virginia, July 21, 1898, died January 8, 1979.
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 The Carter Family
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, 15 December 1891, Maces Springs, Scott County, Virginia, USA, d.
As a young man, A.P. sang in a quartet with two uncles and his eldest sister in the local church.
Initially, he worked on the railroad in Indiana but became homesick for his Clinch Mountain home in Virginia and in 1911, returned to his native area.
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 Country music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
They built a long recording career based on the sonorous bass of AP, the beautiful singing of Sara and the unique guitar playing of Maybelle.
AP's main contribution was the collection of songs and ballads that he picked up in his expeditions into the hill country around their home in Maces Springs, Virginia.
In addition, being a man, he made it possible for Sara and Maybelle to perform without stigma at that time.
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 In the Country of Country:Dawidoff, Nicholas:067941567X:eCampus.com
This is the story of an American treasure that records and evokes the lives of people who often weren't written up in newspapers, but whose experiences of momentous events - the Depression, the Dustbowl, the Second World War - transformed their lives and would be the catalyst for an original American art form: country music.
In the Country of Country is an exhilarating transcontinental journey from Maces Springs, Virginia, home of The Carter Family, to Bakersfield, California, where Buck Owens held sway.
En route we visit the backroads, rural hills, and railway crossings where Doc Watson, Sara Carter, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, and Jimmie Rodgers (The Father of Country Music) first learned to play their guitars, fiddles, and mandolins.
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 Harpweavers History
There is a direct, natural link between the DeBusk-Weaver Family of Oxford, Pennsylvania and the Carter Family, (Maybelle, Sara and A.P. Carter -- the immortal trio that brought country music to an entire nation in the 1920's, '30's and '40's,) of Maces Springs, Virginia.
The DeBusk-Weaver family roots go back to the same region of southwest Virginia as the Carter's and scores of famous country musicians who were inspired by them.
Donald Weaver, who is Linda's husband, was raised in southeastern Pennsylvania; but his father had migrated from Ashe Country, North Carolina during the depression and Donnie grew up with an appreciation of the Carter Family in his home.
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 Around the Mall
But on July 31, 1927, he was tired and dusty from the drive he and his wife, Sara, and Sara’s cousin, Maybelle Addington, had made from their home in Maces Springs, Virginia.
Groups such as the Buckingham Lining-Bar Gang, who are retired railway workers from Virginia, will perform on the grassy strip that runs from the Capitol to the Washington Monument.
They’ll be joined by musicians, dancers and artisans from Scotland and West Africa’s Republic of Mali, Old World lands whose people came to this country in the 18th and 19th centuries by choice, by economic circumstance or as slaves.
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues03/may03/mall.html   (1427 words)

  
 Carter Family Connection-The Original Red Clay Ramblers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The music of the Carter Family is a constant thread through the original era of the Red Clay Ramblers.
Through four decades, Red Clay Ramblers have traveled to Hiltons, Virginia, to play at the invitation of members of the Carter Family.
The album cover says, " The recording career of the original Carter Family: A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, of Maces Springs, Virginia, lasted from 1927 to 1943.
redclayramblers.tripod.com /pics/fold/carter_rcr.htm   (144 words)

  
 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? THE CARTER FAMILY
Their musical style became the basis for what is country, folk, and bluegrass music today.
A.P. Carter was a poor, eccentric mountain farmer from Poor Valley, Maces Springs, Virginia in the foothills of Clinch Mountain.
Their down home lives, their sadnesses, the great scandal and divorce of Sara and A.P. The story of how A.P. died a lonely man on a mountain with a lot of land but very little recognition of what he had accomplished.
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 Sound Opinions Message Board > Dead Thread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
MACES SPRINGS, Va. Joe Carter, a member of the famous Carter family of music, died Wednesday at his home in Virginia.
Carter was a cornerstone of the preservation of old-time mountain music and helped build the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, which presented shows of country and bluegrass music every weekend.
Carter was five months old when he traveled with his parents, A.P. and Sara Carter, from Maces Springs, Virginia, to Bristol in June 1927 for what would become one of the most famous recording sessions in country music history.
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 Aloha, Welcome To The Stoddard's Hale, On This Date
50 years ago, Rene Marie was born in Warrenton, Virginia.
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter was born April 15, 1891 in Maces Springs, Virginia.
Babe Kyro Lemon Turner was born December 21, 1907 in Hughes Springs, Texas.
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 wayne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Wayne is vocal recording artist for Country Discovery Records, plays guitar, fiddle, banjo, piano, autoharp, bass, and dulcimer.
Wayne performs at The Longhollow Jamboree in Gallatin, TN, Robbie's Barn in Hendersonville, TN., The Carter Fold in Maces Springs, Virginia, and The Peach State Jamboree in Dalton, Georgia.
Wayne and Joe Carter son of A. and Sara Carter of the famous Carter Family at Joe's house in Maces Springs, VA.
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