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The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song is a rich and compelling original graphic novel that tells the story of the Carter Family—the first superstar group of country music—who made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records. Many of their hit songs, such as "Wildwood Flower" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," have influenced countless musicians and remain timeless country standards.
The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song is not only a unique illustrated biography, but a moving account that reveals the family's rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music. Illustrated with exacting detail and written in the Southern dialect of the time, its dynamic narrative is pure Americana. It is also a story of success and failure, of poverty and wealth, of racism and tolerance, of creativity and business, and of the power of music and love.
Praise for The Carter Family
Winner of the 2013 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work
"[A] charming, faithful, and resonant biography of the most influential trio in the history of American roots music. . . . Frank Young and David Lasky, on the other hand, will charm the pants off you with a book full of characters who are all too human." —The Comics Journal
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Release date
August 16, 2022 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781613123683
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PDF ebook
- ISBN: 9781613123683
- File size: 112252 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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November 15, 2012
To tell the story of the first family of country music, Lasky poses simple, flat figures before minimal backdrops, letting color and shading conjure atmosphere. Panels vary little in size; a half-pager's a real event. Altogether, the art recalls early daily comics and old Carter Family photos. Perhaps only a very distinctive stylistsay, R. Crumbcould have made the book look better, even then not making it look better suited to the subject. As for that subject, readers of Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg's Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? (2002) will appreciate how closely Young and Lasky reflect that masterpiece of country music history. The Carters preserved an enormous body of traditional Appalachian song that affected the repertoire, attitudes, harmonies, and rhythms of country music, up to and including rock 'n' roll. An 18-minute CD lets those who've never heard them get acquainted, but chances are that most readers will already know their hitsthe likes of Wildwood Flower, Can the Circle Be Unbroken, and Keep On the Sunny Side. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)
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