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Janette Carter: Nurtured mountain music
January 24, 2006
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. -- Janette Carter, 82, the last surviving child of country
music's founding Carter Family, who in recent years preserved her parents'
old-time style with weekly performances, died Sunday after a long illness.
Ms. 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 in March, Ms. Carter became the last surviving
child of the original group's members. Following the death of her father in
1960, Ms. Carter dedicated her life to preserving not only the Carter Family
music, but the folk and country music of Appalachia.
By the Associated Press