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One County Over: Ralph Stanley Sings the Music of the Carter Family

by Derek Halsey
May, 2006

 

AP, Sara, and Maybelle Carter did not invent country music. The music had been evolving in the Appalachian Mountains for generations before the trio made their fateful trip to Bristol, Tennessee in 1927 to record their first sides. While there had been recordings made of country and string band music earlier, Charlie Poole’s recordings in New York City in 1926 and Cal Stewart and Fred Van Eps recordings in 1907 and 1911...

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