Anita Carter, the youngest of Mother Maybelle's three daughters, had a clear soprano voice that was ideal for the folk material that she recorded for Mercury 1962-1964. CD includes 20 page booklet, 26 tracks.

Anita Carter is the great 'lost' voice of Nashville. The Appalachian siren, who once heard will break your heart and mend your soul. Daughter of the legendary Mother Maybelle Carter and sister to the exalted June Carter Cash, Anita sang, played (a mean upright bass) and recorded her entire life (solo, in duet and with The Carter Family). Featured here are rare and previously un-reissued sides and 45 only cuts from her mid-1960s and early 1970s tenures with RCA Victor and Columbia Records. 28 track deluxe collector's edition remastered with love and care from the original master tapes including exclusive liner notes and rare photos.

7 CD box set. Anita Carter began singing on the radio with her mother, Maybelle, and the famous Carter Family when she was barely four years old. All of her recordings from 1950 - 1972 - including all the unissued sides - are in this 7 CD set. A total of 173 recordings. This set also includes the first CD reissue of the entire repertoire of Nita, Rita and Ruby from 1955-1957, as well as Anita's final recordings from 1996 - a previously unreleased session with her sister Helen and guitarist Jerry Hensley, recorded in Bristol, close to the site of the landmark 1927 sessions with the original Carter family.

Anita Carter, the youngest of Mother Maybelle's three daughters, had a clear soprano voice that was ideal for the folk material that she recorded for Mercury 1962-1964. CD includes 20 page booklet, 26 tracks.

Given the rugged background of Country & Western music, it is not surprising that women have been relegated to second place in the performing stakes. Taming the West was for men, 'real' men at that, and the woman's role, if at all, was as distant wife, girlfriend or mother. A woman's place was in the home, doing the chores, washing, cooking, raising the children - it certainly wasn't riding the range and singing about the men in their lives. But of course there were major exceptions - conditions through the earlier and middle part of the Twentieth Century did not make it easy for women to succeed in the music business but feminine charms, on stage and records, were a welcome relief through the gloomy years of the Second World War and subsequently more women succeeded in a successful Country music career.

7 CD box set. Anita Carter began singing on the radio with her mother, Maybelle, and the famous Carter Family when she was barely four years old. All of her recordings from 1950 - 1972 - including all the unissued sides - are in this 7 CD set. A total of 173 recordings. This set also includes the first CD reissue of the entire repertoire of Nita, Rita and Ruby from 1955-1957, as well as Anita's final recordings from 1996 - a previously unreleased session with her sister Helen and guitarist Jerry Hensley, recorded in Bristol, close to the site of the landmark 1927 sessions with the original Carter family.