The music of the Carter Family is a constant thread through the original era of the Red Clay Ramblers.
Original Red Clay Ramblers with Janette Carter featured on the 2006 Carter Family Memorial Festival fan and program
Smithsonian article - the Ramblers playing at A.P. Carter's Store
2004 Festival | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Video at the Fold
Sara Carter with children Janette, Joe & Gladys
Singing at Janette Carter's Funeral
Meeting Sara Carter
Singing at Sara's Funeral
1977 A.P. Carter Festival
Cash Wedding Reception
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Sara Carter - 1976
the Cash Wedding Reception
Tommy Bledsoe's tribute to Janette Carter
Jesse Thompson Eustice writes of the O'Blur show at the Fold on her dad's 69th birthday - July 22, 2006
on early RCR recordings
"Kissing Is A Crime"
Red Clay Ramblers
(1974)
"Will You Miss Me"
"Fifty Miles of Elbow Room"
Twisted Laurel (1976)
Tommy
Thompson, Mike Craver, and Jim Watson also recorded an entire album of
Carter Family songs, Meeting
in the Air in 1980. The album cover says, " The recording
career of the original Carter Family: A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, of Maces
Springs, Virginia, lasted from 1927 to 1943. Their sound has continued
to delight and inspire many lovers of music ever since. Meeting
in the Air was released as a CD in 2004.