◇ image via WikipediaCarter Family
Carter Family is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Vernon Dalhart and Jimmie Rodgers. Those roots explain a lot about how Carter Family arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ola Belle Reed, John Anderson, The Dillards, Roger Miller and Dolly Parton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dolly Parton, Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash, John Carter Cash and Anna Kendrick, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Carter Family, reaching back through Vernon Dalhart and forward to Dolly Parton. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Carter Family connections
Carter Family grew out of Vernon Dalhart and Jimmie Rodgers, shares an orbit with Ola Belle Reed, John Anderson, The Dillards and Roger Miller, went on to shape Dolly Parton, Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash and John Carter Cash. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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