Monday, August 30, 2004
Fame came quickly, but riches did not for the Carters
From the Virginia Pilot
HILTONS -– Joe Carter walks stiff-legged out the back door of the Carter Fold, then braces himself with a cane to ease down the stairs.
Hey, Joe, a woman calls over, mind if I get a picture with you?
“Not at all.”
Joe, good to see you, another greets him, you’re getting around a little better.
“Yeah, I got it in low range now,” he jokes. He is 77 years old, and wears the look of the men he was around growing up in Scott County: the round ruddy nose of his ancestors sitting above a thick hangdog mustache.
He is famous for his parents’ fame and doesn’t mind that a lick. He was born in February 1927, six months before his parents A.P. and Sara Carter, along with his aunt Maybelle, came out of the hills and changed the musical landscape forever.
But Joe, along with his older sister Janette, sweated nearly as much to keep mountain music alive through the lean times of Elvis, the Beatles and even today’s sparked-up country -– rock ’n’ roll in a cowboy hat.
Read the Article
Virginia Pilot Online
HILTONS -– Joe Carter walks stiff-legged out the back door of the Carter Fold, then braces himself with a cane to ease down the stairs.
Hey, Joe, a woman calls over, mind if I get a picture with you?
“Not at all.”
Joe, good to see you, another greets him, you’re getting around a little better.
“Yeah, I got it in low range now,” he jokes. He is 77 years old, and wears the look of the men he was around growing up in Scott County: the round ruddy nose of his ancestors sitting above a thick hangdog mustache.
He is famous for his parents’ fame and doesn’t mind that a lick. He was born in February 1927, six months before his parents A.P. and Sara Carter, along with his aunt Maybelle, came out of the hills and changed the musical landscape forever.
But Joe, along with his older sister Janette, sweated nearly as much to keep mountain music alive through the lean times of Elvis, the Beatles and even today’s sparked-up country -– rock ’n’ roll in a cowboy hat.
Read the Article
Virginia Pilot Online
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 2:38 PM 
