Here's a video of us playing the Carter Family classic 'I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes'.
The Carter family are considered one of the prime movers of modern country music, and the songs they wrote and collected are central to the canon of Bluegrass, Country and American Folk artists. I think I first came across them through Sid Griffin but it may have been through Johnny Cash, who was married to June Carter, from the second generation of the family. Her mother Maybelle Carter is incredibly influential as a guitarist - her style is at the root of so much flatpicking - I can't think of another female guitarist who has as much influence. I wonder whether had she been a man she would appear in the lists of most influential guitarists more often than she does...?
The Carter family are considered one of the prime movers of modern country music, and the songs they wrote and collected are central to the canon of Bluegrass, Country and American Folk artists. I think I first came across them through Sid Griffin but it may have been through Johnny Cash, who was married to June Carter, from the second generation of the family. Her mother Maybelle Carter is incredibly influential as a guitarist - her style is at the root of so much flatpicking - I can't think of another female guitarist who has as much influence. I wonder whether had she been a man she would appear in the lists of most influential guitarists more often than she does...?