The Carter Family made their first recordings on August 1, 1927. The previous day, A.P. Carter had persuaded his wife Sara Carter and his sister-in-law Maybelle Carter to make the journey from Maces Spring, Virginia,

The Carter Family name was revived for a third time, under the name Carter Family III. A project of descendants of the original Carter Family, John Carter Cash, grandson of Maybelle Carter, and Dale Jett, grandson of A.P. and Sara Carter, along with John's then-wife

As important to country music as the family's repertoire of songs was Maybelle's guitar playing. She developed her innovative guitar

• Songs written by A.P. Carter

In the winter of 1938–39, the Carter Family traveled to Texas, where they had a twice-daily program on the border radio station XERA (late

• A. P. Carter (1927–1944, 1952–1956)
• Maybelle Carter (1927–1978)
• Sara Carter (1927–1944, 1952–1956, 1960–1971)
• Janette Carter (1939–1940, 1952–1956)

Selected 78 rpm records: The Carter Family's career predated any sort of best-selling chart of country music records. (Billboard did not have a country best sellers chart until 1944.)