Career
As a solo artist, and with her family, Carter recorded for a number of labels including Radio Corporation of America Victor, Cadence, Columbia, Audiograph, United Artists, Liberty and Capitol. Born in Maces Spring, Virginia, she scored two Top Ten hits in 1951 with "Down The Trail of Achin" Hearts" with Hank Snow at Number. 2 and "Blue Bird Island" at Number.
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4. Other solo releases charted as well. Carter recorded two folk albums in the 1960s. The revised song went on to gain wide international popularity and became one of the biggest hits of his career.
She appears in a video clip, currently on YouTube, in a duet with Hank Williams, of his song "I Can"t Help lieutenant".
Marriages Death Carter suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for many years, and the drugs used to treat it severely damaged her pancreas, kidneys, and liver. She died on July 29, 1999, at the age of 66, a year after eldest sister Helen and four years before middle sister June.
Her interment was in Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.