The Carter Family's Historic Bristol Recordings

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History-Social Science The Arts
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The Carter Family's Historic Bristol Recordings

The Carters, a small family from rural Virginia, created music history in 1927 when they became the first group to record commercially-produced country music. The Carter's music formed the bedrock of country music as a genre.
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