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The end of an era - Janette Carter Dies at 82
Mon Jan 23, 9:47 AM ET
Janette Carter, the last surviving child of country music's founding Carter Family, who in recent years preserved her parents' oldtime style with
weekly performances, has died. She was 82.
Family members said Carter, who had battled Parkinson's disease and other illnesses, was taken to the Holston Valley Medical Center on Tuesday. Her
family said she appeared to be improving for a time, but died on Sunday.
Carter was the daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter. Her parents and her father's sister-in-law Maybelle Carter formed a singing trio discovered in 1927
when talent scout Ralph Peer came through the Tennessee-Virginia border town of Bristol to record mountain music.
When her brother Joe died last March, Janette Carter became the last surviving child of the original group's members. (The best known of her
generation to present-day listeners was country star June Carter Cash, a daughter of Maybelle and wife of Johnny Cash. Carter Cash died in May 2003 at
age 73. Her husband died later that year.)
Following the death of her father in 1960, Janette Carter dedicated her life to preserving not only the Carter Family music, but the folk and country
music of Appalachia.
One result of that effort was establishment of the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Va.
"It's good for younger people to know this kind of music," Janette Carter said in a 2002 Associated Press story. "There was a time when music told a
story; it wasn't just some beat."
On his deathbed, she said, her father "called me over and said 'Janette, I want you to continue the music the way we'd done it.'"
At the time of the 2002 interview, she was still giving concerts every Saturday at the Carter Family Fold, an auditorium built from railroad ties and
school bus seats near the family farm in Hiltons. She played autoharp.
"It's really remarkable how well Janette carried on her family's legacy by helping create the Carter Fold and what that has grown into from such
humble beginnings," said Bill Hartley, executive director of the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance in Bristol. "Thanks to the foundation she built
with the Carter Fold, her family legacy lives on."
In September, Carter was given the Bess Lomax Hawes award by the National Endowment for the Arts, which recognized her lifelong effort to preserve and
perform Appalachian music.
A.P., Maybelle and Sara Carter recorded "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow," "Little Log Cabin By the Sea," and "Poor Orphan Child" with a sound and
harmony that was unheard of at the time and immensely influential on country music ever since. In 2003, the Library of Congress celebrated the 75th
anniversary of their first recordings with a concert on the National Mall in Washington.
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"It's good for younger people to know this kind of music," Janette Carter said in a 2002 Associated Press story. "There was a time when music told a
story; it wasn't just some beat."
You said it sister.
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cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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sad. i don't think the majority of people have a clue how much of an impact the carter family had on music
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| Quote: | Originally posted by newbreedbrian
sad. i don't think the majority of people have a clue how much of an impact the carter family had on music |
Which is really sad. I couldn't agree with your post more. For most people today it seems music is like some sort of fashion statement and not
something that should touch you in a way that can't be explained. The whole shitty hip hop influence is the perfect example
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