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Infobox musical artist| name = Maybelle Carter| image = Cartermaybelle.jpg|175px| caption = Mother Maybelle Carter| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Maybelle Addington| birth_date = birth date |1909|05|10| death_date = Death date and age|1978|10|23|1909|05|10| origin = Nickelsville, Virginia , United States| instrument = Guitar , Banjo , Autoharp | genre = Gospel music , Country Music | years_active = 1927–1978 "Mother" Maybelle Carter (May 10, 1909 & ndash; October 23, 1978) was an United States|American Country music|country musician . She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.cite book | last = Zwonitzer | first = Mark | authorlink = | coauthors = Hirshberg, Charles | title = Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? : The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music | publisher = Simon & Schuster | year = 2004| location = | pages = | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=qTdns8tiSqUC& printsec=frontcover& dq=Will+You+Miss+Me+When+I'm+Gone%3F+The+Carter+Family+%26+Their+Legacy+in+American+Music& cd=1#v=onepage& q=& f=false | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-7432-4382-X
Biography
Maybelle Carter was born Maybelle Addington on May 10, 1909 in Nickelsville, Virginia|Nickelsville , Virginia , the daughter of Hugh Jackson Addington and Margaret S. Kilgore. According to family lore, the Addington family of Virginia is descended from former British prime minister Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth .Cash, John Carter. Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2007), 10.
On March 13, 1926, Maybelle married Ezra J. Carter. They had three daughters, Helen Carter|Helen , June Carter Cash|Valerie June (better known in later life as June Carter Cash), and Anita Carter|Anita .
She was a member of the original Carter Family , which was formed in 1927 by her brother-in-law, A. P. Carter , who was married to her cousin, Sara Carter|Sara , also a part of the trio. The Carter Family was one of the first commercial rural country music groups. Maybelle, who played autoharp and banjo as well as being the group's guitar ist, created a unique sound for the group with her innovative 'scratch' style of guitar playing, where she used her thumb to play melody on the bass and middle strings, and her index finger to fill out the rhythm. Although Maybelle herself had first picked up this technique from the guitarist Leslie Riddle cite audio | people = Carter, Maybelle | date = May 30, 2009 | title = Mother Maybelle Carter talks about Autoharps and Fingerpicking | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=uhSSwwQifJE#t=2m20s | format = YouTube video | medium = audio recording | publisher = YouTube | accessdate = Jan. 26, 2012 | time = 2:20 | quote = I'll play a little bit of a tune here in the style that I learned from a colored man that used to come to our house and play guitar, and he played with his finger and his thumb.... His name was Leslie Riddles.cite web |url= http://tvgnc.org/index.php? option=com_content& view=article& id=5:leslie-riddle-bio& catid=6& Itemid=3 |title= The Lesley Riddle Story |year = 2011 |publisher= Traditional Voices Group |location= 113 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, NC |accessdate= Jan. 26, 2012 |quote= When Seeger was recording Lesley, he could see and hear the similarities between Lesley's picking style and that of Maybelle Carter so he asked him if he ever gave her lessons. Lesley replied, 'No, I didn't have to. She would just watch and learn. She was that good.'cite book |title= Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity|last= Peterson|first= Richard A. |date= Nov. 24, 1997|publisher= University of Chicago Press|location= Chicago, IL |isbn= 978-0-226-66284-8|page= 41 |url= http://books.google.com/books? id=J3zWpIOLB-MC& lpg=PA41& pg=PA41#v=onepage& q& f=false|accessdate= Jan. 26, 2012 |quote= Leslie Riddle, an African American guitar player, ... taught Maybelle Carter how to play melody and pick rhythm on the guitar at the same time—a style for which she became famous., it became widely known as Carter Family picking , an indication of the group's pivotal role in popularizing the style.
quote|Perhaps the most remarkable of Maybelle's many talents was her skill as a guitarist. She revolutionized the instrument's role by developing a style in which she played melody lines on the bass strings with her thumb while rhythmically strumming with her fingers. Her innovative technique, to this day known as the Carter Scratch, influenced the guitar's shift from rhythm to lead instrument.|Holly George-WarrenGeorge-Warren, Holly (1997). "Hillbilly Fillies: The Trailblazers of C& W" quoted in Reddington, Helen (2007). The Lost Women of Rock Music , p.179. ISBN 0-7546-5773-6. Although George-Warren appears to credit Maybelle Carter with originating this technique, in fact Carter originally learned it from a Black guitarist named Leslie Riddle, as noted above. She was widely respected and loved by the Grand Ole Opry community of the early 1950s, and was popularly known as "Mother Maybelle" and a matriarchal figure in country music circles although only in her forties at the time. Maybelle and her daughters toured during the 1950s and 1960s as "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" but after the death of A. P. Carter in 1960 the group revived the name "The Carter Family", frequently touring with Johnny Cash (her son-in-law from 1968 on); the group were regular performers on Cash's weekly network The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)|variety show from 1969-71. Maybelle briefly reunited with former Carter Family member, Sara Carter, during the 1960s folk music craze, with Sara singing lead and Maybelle providing harmony as before.
Maybelle Carter made occasional solo recordings during the 1960s and 1970s, usually full-length albums. Her final such work, a two-record set released on Columbia Records, placed on Billboard (magazine)|Billboard 's best-selling country albums chart in 1973 when she was 64. Maybelle was also featured on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 's 1972 recording Will the Circle Be Unbroken .
Maybelle Carter died in 1978 after a few years of poor health, and was interred next to her husband, Ezra, in Hendersonville Memory Gardens , Hendersonville, Tennessee|Hendersonville , Tennessee . All three of their daughters, "The Carter Sisters" - Helen Carter|Helen , June Carter Cash|June , and Anita Carter|Anita - are buried nearby in the same cemetery.cite web|last=Carter|first="Mother" Maybelle|title=Mabelle Carter's Final resting place|url= http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? page=gr& GRid=178|work=Canyouhearmenow|publisher=Find A Grave|accessdate=23 March 2012
Legacy
Maybelle Carter was inducted as part of The Carter Family in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970.cite web | last = Wolfe | first = Charles | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Carter Family | work = | publisher = Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum | date = | url = http://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/full-list-of-inductees/view/carter-family | format = | doi = | accessdate = February 17, 2010
In 1993, her image appeared on a List of people on stamps of the United States|U.S. postage stamp honoring the Carter Family. In 2001 she was initiated into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor . She would rank #8 in '' CMT 's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002. In 2005 in film|2005 , she was portrayed by Sandra Ellis Lafferty in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line .
She was the subject of her granddaughter Carlene Carter 's 1990 song " I Fell in Love|Me and the Wildwood Rose ".
In 2010, Lipscomb University in Nashville named the stage in Collins Alumni Auditorium after her.
Solo albums discography
Year
Album
Top Country Albums>US Country
Label
1960
1963
1963
1964
1965
1973
See The Carter Family for albums with A.P. & Sara or with her daughters.
References
reflist
External links
Find a Grave|178
Sources
Wolfe, Charles. (1998). "Carter Family". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music . Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.& nbsp;84–85.
Zwonitzer, Mark with Charles Hirshberg. (2002). ''Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? : The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music . New York: Simon & Schuster.
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