Buster Carter and Preston Young

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Buster Carter and Preston Young
General information
Genre (s) Old-time music
founding Late 1920s
Founding members
Buster Carter
Singing, banjo
 Preston Young
Other members
Posey Rorer

Buster Carter and Preston Young were an old-time American duo .

history

Preston Young was born in Franklin County , Virginia on February 9, 1907 , and was influenced as a child by his uncle Walter Spencer, who played autoharp . He later learned the guitar and - inspired by Charlie Poole , whom he met around 1928 - also the banjo . Together with his friend Buster Carter, who had been a musician since around 1924, he formed a duo. They often received support from Fiddler Posey Rorer , who previously worked in Charlie Poole's backing band.

Poole played a big role for the musicians. Not only did they come from the same social class, but also more or less from his surroundings, and their playing style was based on his style. As Poole had done in 1925, Carter and Young, accompanied by Rorer, traveled to New York City in 1930 , where they recorded their only session on June 26, 1931. Although it was actually a trio with the line-up Young (guitar / vocals), Carter (banjo / vocals) and Rorer (fiddle), Columbia released the records under the name Buster Carter and Preston Young . Among the tracks recorded was I'll Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms , which became a bluegrass classic and was later recorded by artists such as Flatt and Scruggs , Ricky Skaggs , Jerry Reed , Leon Russell , Bill Monroe and more.

At about the same time, the trio also made recordings with Walter “Kid” Smith and Lewis McDaniel. Your recordings for Columbia sold poorly due to the Depression . Preston Young then returned to Henry County and continued to perform, at times on the radio in nearby High Point , North Carolina . However, he earned his living as a metalworker and carpenter, which is why he later got out of the music scene. In 1940 he had already sold his instruments. Buster Carter had given up music about two years earlier.

Preston Young died in Martinsville around 1978. Buster Carter died around the same time.

Discography

year title # Remarks
Published titles
Columbia Records
It's Hardt o Love and Can't Be Loved / I'll Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms 15690-D
It Won't Hurt No More / A Lazy Farmer Boy 15702-D
What Sugar Head Likker Will Do / Bill Morgan and His Gal 15758-D
Other recordings
1931
  • I'd Rather Be Rosie Nell
  • She's a Darn Good Gal
  • We'll Be Married When the Sun Goes Down
  • Wish That Gal Were Mine
 Columbia unpublished

literature

  • Kip Lornell: Virginia's Blues, Country and Gospel Records, 1902–1942 . University Press of Kentucky, 1989, ISBN 0-8131-1658-9 , pp. 34-35 .

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