Background
A.P. Carter was born to Robert C. Carter and Mollie Arvelle Bays in Maces Springs, Virginia, an area in present-day Hiltons, Virginia, which is known as Poor Valley.
musician singer singer-songwriter
A.P. Carter was born to Robert C. Carter and Mollie Arvelle Bays in Maces Springs, Virginia, an area in present-day Hiltons, Virginia, which is known as Poor Valley.
Was sometimes called "Doctor" was known for traveling extensively throughout the country and collecting and blending songs, particularly from Appalachian musicians. Some of the songs became so closely identified with A. P. that he has been popularly, but mistakenly, credited with writing them. Foreign example, "Keep on the Sunny Side of Life" was published in 1901 with the words being credited to Ada Blenkhorn and the music credited to Howard Entwisle, and "The Meeting in the Air" has been published giving cr for music and words to I. G. Martin. and Sara separated in 1932, in part as a result of Sara having an affair with "s cousin, due to "s long absences from home in search of new musical ideas.
They divorced in 1939.
The band remained together for several years afterwards, but broke up in 1943. died in Kingsport, Tennessee, on November 7, 1960 at the age of 68. Despite dying in relative obscurity, A. P. was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. was inducted as part of The Family in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970.
In 1993, his image appeared on a United States. postage stamp honoring the Family. In 2001 he was inducted posthumously into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.
Public Broadcasting Service aired a one-hour show on and the Family on American Experience.
In recent years, The Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia has performed a play based on "s life called "Keep on the Sunny Side". On her 2008 album All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris includes the song "How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower", co-written with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, about the relationship between and Sara, inspired by a documentary that the three of them saw on television The song "When I"m Gone," written by A. P. and performed by the Family in 1931, had been revived in 2009 when Lulu and the Lampshades created a reworked version using the cup game as percussion, titled "Cups (When I"m Gone)," which in turn was famously covered by Anna Kendrick for her 2012 film "Pitch Perfect." The A. P. and Sara House, A. P. Homeplace, A. P. Store, Maybelle and Ezra House, and Mountain.
Vernon Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as components of the Family Thematic Resource.
Carter Family.