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The Carter Family: A Selected Bibliography
Compiled by: Kathryn A. Jarrett
Publication Date: July 5, 1977
Atkins, John.
The Carter Family. London: Old Time Music, Booklet 1, 1973. 63
pp.
"The Carter Family." In: Bill C. Malone and Judith
McCulloh, eds., Stars of Country Music. Chicago: University of
Illinois Press. 1975, pp. 95-120.
Badeaux, Ed.
"The Carters of Rye Cove." Sing
Out!, volume 11, number
2, April May 1961, pp. 12-16.
Bruno, Hal.
"The Carter Family Keeps on Pickin': Country Gold From Poor
Valley." Rolling
Stone, number 160, May 9, 1974, pp. 54-57.
Carter, June.
"I Remember the Carter Family." Sing
Out!, volume 17,
number 3, June-July 1967, pp. 6-11. Reprinted in part from Country
Song Roundup, volume 17, number 90, October 1965, and number
91, December 1965.
Christie, Keith G.
Carter Family Discography. Nashville: Records' Associates, 1963.
28 pp.
"A Short Discourse on the Carter Family." Sunny
Side Sentinel, series 4, number 1, n.d., pp. [4]-[7].
Cline, Leigh, Anne Hershoran and Denis Patrick.
"Interview:
Maybelle Carter." Hoot, volume 3, number
1, February-March 1967, pp. 18-23.
Gentry, Linnell.
A History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western
and Gospel Music.
2nd edition, Nashville: Clairmont Corporation, 1969. Biographies
of A. P., Maybelle and Sarah Carter, pp. 391-393.
Gibson, Garth.
"The Saga of the Carter Family." Country
and Western Spotlight, number 34, June, 1961, pp. 4-5.
Green, Archie.
"The Carter Family's 'Coal Miner's Blues'." Southern
Folklore Quarterly, volume 25, number 4, December 1961, pp. 226-237.
"Commerical Music Graphics: Number Thirty." John
Edwards Memorial Foundation Quarterly, volume 10, part 3, number 35,
Autumn 1974, pp. 110-115.
Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal
Mining Songs. Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 1972. Pp. 388-397, passim.
Hemphill, Paul.
The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country
Music. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1970. Pp. 120-122.
Hickey, Neil.
"His Mother-in-Law is a Legend." T.V.
Guide, volume
19, number 3, January 16, 1971, pp. 41-48.
Koon, William H.
"The Carter Family: A Brief History." In record notes
for The Carter Family on Border Radio, JEMF 101 (Los Angeles:
John Edwards Memorial Foundation, 1972), pp. 3-9.
Malone, Bill C.
Country Music U.S.A.: A Fifty Year History. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1968. (Publications of the American Folklore
Society, Memoir Series, volume 54, 1968.) Pp. 62-67.
McNabb, Talmadge Ford.
"The Carter Family's First Recording Day." Sunny
Side Sentinel, series three, number one, n.d., pp. [6]-[11]. Reprinted
as "A Red Letter Day in the Annals of Country Music. Billboard:
The World of Country Music, volume 78, number 44, October 29,
1966, pp. 56-60. Also reprinted in part in Country
and Western Roundabout, volume 4, number 16,
January-March 1968, pp. 13-14.
"The Last Recording Day of the Original Carter Family." Sunny
Side Sentinel, series 5, number 1, n.d., pp. [3]-[11].
"The Two Days That Shook the Country Music World." Billboard:
The World of Country Music, volume 77, number 44, October 30,
1965, pp. 58-62
"A Visit to Carter Family Country." Sunny
Side Sentinel,
series 4, number 2, n.d., pp.[10]-[16].
Millard, Gladys Carter.
"I Remember Daddy." Sunny Side
Sentinel, special issue,
n.d., pp. [1]-[9].
Orgill, Michael.
Anchored in Love: The Carter Family Story. Old Tappan, N.J.:
Fleming H. Revell Company, 1975. 192 pp.
Rinzler, Ralph.
"The Nashville Scene: The Famous Carter Family." Hootenany,
volume 1, number 3, May 1964, pp. 56, 67, 68.
Shelton, Robert.
The Country Music Story. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966. "The
Influentials: The Carter Family - 'Keep on the Sunny Side'," pp.
71-77.
Shestack, Melvin.
The Country Music Encyclopedia. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell,
1974. "The
Carter Family," pp. 35-38.
Stambler, Irwin and Grelun Landon.
Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western
Music. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1969. Biographies of The Carter Family, pp.
48-50; Mother Maybelle Carter, 51-52.
Tye George.
"The Carter Family." Folk Style, number 8, 1960, pp.
4-8.
Williams, Bill.
"Interview with Mother Maybelle Carter." Country
Music Foundation Newsletter, volume 2, number 1, March 1971, pp. 4-12.
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