Maybelle Carter

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

biography

Family and childhood

She was born in Virginia in 1909 to Hugh Jackson Addington and Margaret S. Kilgore. The Virginia branch of the Addington family descends from former British Prime Minister Henry Addington . In March 1926 she married Ezra J. Carter. The two had three daughters, Helen, June and Anita .

The Carter Family

Maybelle Carter founded the Carter Family , the leading country vocal group of the 1930s and early 1940s , with her brother-in-law AP Carter and his wife Sara Carter in 1927 . Maybelle Carter played in the group banjo and autoharp and created with her innovative guitar technique , in which she (on an L-5 developed by Lloyd Loar from Gibson ) used the thumb with thumbpick to play the melody on the low strings and the remaining fingers to accompany the chordal rhythm used the unmistakable sound of the Carter Family on the up and down on the higher strings. The group initially disbanded in 1943.

Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters

Maybelle Carter continued with her daughters June, Anita and Helen Carter as "Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters"; after the death of AP Carter in 1960 they appeared again under the old name "The Carter Family" and worked, among other things, as accompanist for Johnny Cash , whom June Carter married in March 1968.

Maybelle Carter was a permanent member of the Grand Ole Opry and came back into the public eye in the 1960s as part of the folk revival. In 1967, her performance together with Sara Carter at the Newport Folk Festival received a storm of applause. In 1972 she took part in the album Will the Circle Be Unbroken by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band .

death

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

Posthumous fame

In 1993 Maybelle Carter's image was printed on a postage stamp in the USA in honor of the Carter Family. In 2001 Maybelle Carter was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor . In 2002, she was named # 8 of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music by Country Music Television - CMT . In 2005 she was portrayed in the biography 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. John Carter Cash: Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash. Thomas Nelseon Publishers, Nashville 2007.
  2. ^ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, great hours. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1 , p. 144.