Musical Bacon: The Carter Family (The Original Carter Family, 1927-1943)

Artist name	Roles	Recordings
Maybelle Carter	vocal, guitar, mandolin, steel guitar	A Distant Land to Roam, Amber Tresses, Anchored in Love, Answer to Weeping Willow, Are You Tired of Me My Darling, Away Out on the Old Saint Sabboth, Bonnie Blue Eyes, Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me, Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow, Can't Feel at Home, Carter’s Blues, Charlie and Nellie, Chewing Gum, Coal Miner's Blues, Cowboy Jack, Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd, Cyclone of Rye Cove, Dark Haired True Lover, Darling Daisies, Darling Nellie Across the Sea, Diamonds in the Rough, Don't Forget This Song (My Home in Old Virginia), Dying Soldier, East Virginia Blues, Engine 143, Faded Coat of Blue, Foggy Mountain Top, Fond Affection, Forsaken Love, Give Me Roses While I Live, God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, Gold Watch and Chain, Grave on the Green Hillside, Happiest Days of All, Happy or Lonesome, Hello Central Give Me Heaven, Hello Stranger, Hold Fast to the Right, Home by the Sea, Homestead on the Farm, I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow, I Have No One to Love Me (But the Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea), I Have an Aged Mother, I Loved You Better Than You Knew, I Never Loved but One, I Never Will Marry, I Wouldn't Mind Dying, I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, I'll Be Home Some Day, I'm Working on a Building, If One Won't Another Will, In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, It'll Aggravate Your Soul, I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, Jimmie Brown the Newsboy, Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family, John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man, Just a Few More Days, Keep on the Sunny Side, Kitty Waltz, Let the Church Roll On, Little Darling Pal of Mine, Little Log Cabin by the Sea, Little Moses, Lonesome Pine Special, Lonesome Valley, Lonesome for You, Longing for Old Virginia, Lover's Farewell, Lover's Lane, Lover's Return, Lulu Wall, March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away, Meet Me by the Moonlight Alone, Mid the Green Fields of Virginia, Motherless Children, My Clinch Mountain Home, My Dixie Darling, My Heart's Tonight in Texas, My Little Home in Tennessee, My Old Cottage Home, No More the Moon Shines on Lorena, No Telephone in Heaven, Oh, Take Me Back, On My Way to Canaan's Land, On a Hill Lone and Gray, On the Rock Where Moses Stood, On the Sea of Galilee, One Little Word, Over the Garden Wall, Picture on the Wall, Poor Orphan Child, River of Jordan, Room in Heaven for Me, Sailor Boy, See That My Grave Is Kept Green, Single Girl, Married Girl, Sow 'em on the Mountain, Sunshine in the Shadows, Sweet Fern, Sweet as the Flowers in Maytime, Tell Me That You Love Me, The Birds Were Singing of You, The Broken Hearted Lover, The Cannon Ball, The Church in the Wildwood, The Evening Bells Are Ringing, The Little Log Hut in the Lane, The Mountains of Tennessee, The Spirit of Love Watches Over Me, The Storms Are on the Ocean, The Sun of the Soul, The Winding Stream, The Wonderful City, There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy, There's No Hiding Place Down Here, There's Someone Waiting for Me, This Is Like Heaven to Me, Two Sweethearts, Wabash Cannonball, Wandering Boy, We Will March Through the Streets of the City, Weary Prodigal Son, Western Hobo, When I'm Gone, When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland, When the Springtime Comes Again, When the World's on Fire, Where Shall I Be, Where We'll Never Grow Old, Why There's a Tear in My Eye, Wildwood Flower, Will My Mother Know Me There?, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone, Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven, Worried Man Blues, You Are My Flower, You Denied Your Love, You're Nothing More to Me, You've Been Fooling Me Baby, Young Freda Bolt
Sara Carter	vocal, autoharp, guitar	A Distant Land to Roam, Amber Tresses, Anchored in Love, Answer to Weeping Willow, Are You Tired of Me My Darling, Away Out on the Old Saint Sabboth, Bonnie Blue Eyes, Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me, Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow, Can't Feel at Home, Carter’s Blues, Charlie and Nellie, Chewing Gum, Coal Miner's Blues, Cowboy Jack, Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd, Cyclone of Rye Cove, Dark Haired True Lover, Darling Daisies, Darling Nellie Across the Sea, Diamonds in the Rough, Don't Forget This Song (My Home in Old Virginia), Dying Soldier, East Virginia Blues, Engine 143, Faded Coat of Blue, Foggy Mountain Top, Fond Affection, Forsaken Love, Give Me Roses While I Live, God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, Gold Watch and Chain, Grave on the Green Hillside, Happiest Days of All, Happy or Lonesome, Hello Central Give Me Heaven, Hello Stranger, Hold Fast to the Right, Home by the Sea, Homestead on the Farm, I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow, I Have No One to Love Me (But the Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea), I Have an Aged Mother, I Loved You Better Than You Knew, I Never Loved but One, I Never Will Marry, I Wouldn't Mind Dying, I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, I'll Be Home Some Day, I'm Working on a Building, If One Won't Another Will, In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, It'll Aggravate Your Soul, I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, Jimmie Brown the Newsboy, Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family, John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man, Just a Few More Days, Keep on the Sunny Side, Kitty Waltz, Let the Church Roll On, Little Darling Pal of Mine, Little Log Cabin by the Sea, Little Moses, Lonesome Pine Special, Lonesome Valley, Lonesome for You, Longing for Old Virginia, Lover's Farewell, Lover's Lane, Lover's Return, Lulu Wall, March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away, Meet Me by the Moonlight Alone, Mid the Green Fields of Virginia, Motherless Children, My Clinch Mountain Home, My Dixie Darling, My Heart's Tonight in Texas, My Little Home in Tennessee, My Old Cottage Home, No More the Moon Shines on Lorena, No Telephone in Heaven, Oh, Take Me Back, On My Way to Canaan's Land, On a Hill Lone and Gray, On the Rock Where Moses Stood, On the Sea of Galilee, One Little Word, Over the Garden Wall, Picture on the Wall, Poor Orphan Child, River of Jordan, Room in Heaven for Me, Sailor Boy, See That My Grave Is Kept Green, Single Girl, Married Girl, Sow 'em on the Mountain, Sunshine in the Shadows, Sweet Fern, Sweet as the Flowers in Maytime, Tell Me That You Love Me, The Birds Were Singing of You, The Broken Hearted Lover, The Cannon Ball, The Church in the Wildwood, The Evening Bells Are Ringing, The Little Log Hut in the Lane, The Mountains of Tennessee, The Spirit of Love Watches Over Me, The Storms Are on the Ocean, The Sun of the Soul, The Winding Stream, The Wonderful City, There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy, There's No Hiding Place Down Here, There's Someone Waiting for Me, This Is Like Heaven to Me, Two Sweethearts, Wabash Cannonball, Wandering Boy, We Will March Through the Streets of the City, Weary Prodigal Son, Western Hobo, When I'm Gone, When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland, When the Springtime Comes Again, When the World's on Fire, Where Shall I Be, Where We'll Never Grow Old, Why There's a Tear in My Eye, Wildwood Flower, Will My Mother Know Me There?, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone, Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven, Worried Man Blues, You Are My Flower, You Denied Your Love, You're Nothing More to Me, You've Been Fooling Me Baby, Young Freda Bolt
A.P. Carter	vocal	A Distant Land to Roam, Amber Tresses, Anchored in Love, Answer to Weeping Willow, Are You Tired of Me My Darling, Away Out on the Old Saint Sabboth, Bonnie Blue Eyes, Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me, Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow, Can't Feel at Home, Carter’s Blues, Chewing Gum, Cowboy Jack, Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd, Cyclone of Rye Cove, Dark Haired True Lover, Darling Daisies, Darling Nellie Across the Sea, Diamonds in the Rough, Don't Forget This Song (My Home in Old Virginia), Dying Soldier, East Virginia Blues, Engine 143, Faded Coat of Blue, Foggy Mountain Top, Fond Affection, Forsaken Love, Give Me Roses While I Live, God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, Gold Watch and Chain, Grave on the Green Hillside, Happiest Days of All, Happy or Lonesome, Hello Central Give Me Heaven, Hold Fast to the Right, Home by the Sea, Homestead on the Farm, I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow, I Have No One to Love Me (But the Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea), I Have an Aged Mother, I Loved You Better Than You Knew, I Never Loved but One, I Never Will Marry, I Wouldn't Mind Dying, I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, I'll Be Home Some Day, I'm Working on a Building, If One Won't Another Will, In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, It'll Aggravate Your Soul, I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, Jimmie Brown the Newsboy, Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family, John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man, Just a Few More Days, Keep on the Sunny Side, Kitty Waltz, Let the Church Roll On, Little Darling Pal of Mine, Little Log Cabin by the Sea, Little Moses, Lonesome Pine Special, Lonesome Valley, Lonesome for You, Longing for Old Virginia, Lover's Farewell, Lover's Return, Lulu Wall, March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away, Meet Me by the Moonlight Alone, Mid the Green Fields of Virginia, Motherless Children, My Clinch Mountain Home, My Dixie Darling, My Heart's Tonight in Texas, My Little Home in Tennessee, My Old Cottage Home, No More the Moon Shines on Lorena, No Telephone in Heaven, On My Way to Canaan's Land, On a Hill Lone and Gray, On the Rock Where Moses Stood, On the Sea of Galilee, One Little Word, Over the Garden Wall, Picture on the Wall, Poor Orphan Child, River of Jordan, Room in Heaven for Me, Sailor Boy, See That My Grave Is Kept Green, Sow 'em on the Mountain, Sunshine in the Shadows, Sweet Fern, Sweet as the Flowers in Maytime, Tell Me That You Love Me, The Birds Were Singing of You, The Broken Hearted Lover, The Cannon Ball, The Church in the Wildwood, The Evening Bells Are Ringing, The Little Log Hut in the Lane, The Mountains of Tennessee, The Spirit of Love Watches Over Me, The Storms Are on the Ocean, The Sun of the Soul, The Winding Stream, There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy, There's No Hiding Place Down Here, There's Someone Waiting for Me, This Is Like Heaven to Me, Two Sweethearts, Wabash Cannonball, Wandering Boy, We Will March Through the Streets of the City, Weary Prodigal Son, Western Hobo, When I'm Gone, When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland, When the Springtime Comes Again, When the World's on Fire, Where Shall I Be, Where We'll Never Grow Old, Wildwood Flower, Will My Mother Know Me There?, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone, Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven, Worried Man Blues, You've Been Fooling Me Baby
Ralph Peer	producer	Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow, Little Log Cabin by the Sea, Poor Orphan Child, Single Girl, Married Girl, The Storms Are on the Ocean, Wandering Boy
Jimmie Rodgers (country music pioneer, died in 1933)	vocal	Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family, The Wonderful City, Why There's a Tear in My Eye