In early August of 1927, Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, his wife Sara and his sister-in-law Maybelle made the bumpy trip on rutted roads from their home in Maces Springs, Virginia to Bristol, ...

The song was passed down from generation-to-generation, without the benefit of the written word. 'Wildwood Flower' In 1928, the Carter family from Poor Valley, in southwest Virginia, traveled to an ...

Wildwood Flower‘s liner notes are reason enough to recommend the final recording by June Carter Cash, who died unexpectedly from complications of heart surgery in April. Penned by stepdaughter and ...

The career of late singer June Carter Cash shadowed 20th-century pop music: It began in the '30s when she toured with her famous folk-singing family, continued through the '50s when she married ...

Their music lifted the nation's spirits during the darkest days of the Depression. Their lyrics captured the joys and tragedies of everyday life: loves won and lost, dreams attained and shattered, ...

Foggy mountain top -- Darling Nellie across the sea -- Forsaken love -- A.P. Carter -- Little darling, pal of mine -- Beneath the willow -- The stormes are on the ocean -- Bring back my blue eyed boy ...

As the Carter Family sings "Wildwood Flower" an elaborate embroidered border is created around an image of a nude woman riding slowly toward the camera, producing a kind of cameo in motion. Preserved ...