Janette Carter passed Sun, 22 Jan 2006 - National Heritage Fellowship

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It is with great sadness that I bear the news that Janette Carter passed
away early this morning.  She was 82.  Janette, the last surviving child of
A.P. and Sarah Carter of the original Carter Family, was awarded with the
National Heritage Fellowship last fall, an honor she and the family deeply
cherished.  Janette was named the Bess Lomax Hawes Fellow for her tireless
stewardship of the Carter Family Fold, a modest musical hall she created in
Hiltons Virginia, that has become hallowed ground for old time, gospel, and
bluegrass musicians throughout southern Appalachia.  The Fold was Janette's
way of making good on a legendary promise she made to her dying father at
his bedside, that she would do everything she could to keep old time music,
and the great legacy of the Carter Family, alive. ~ Jonathan Lohman
<snip>

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From: Joe Wilson

Janette was not the Carter with the husky, penetrating female voice,
perhaps the finest country female lead of all time.  That voice
belonged to her mother, Sara.  She was not the lead guitarist who
invented country guitar lead with its "church lick" and unrelenting
emphasis of melody.  That guitarist was her Aunt Maybelle.  She wrote
songs, but was not the greatest composer and arranger in country music
history.  That person was her father, A. P. Carter.  She never married
anyone famous, and individual fame never came to her.  The Carter
Family was a depression-era band that broke up after a mere fourteen
years, and Janette and her father returned to the Virginia mountains
with considerable fame, but no cash.  She worked as a cook at the
elementary school, and raised her family.  But as Jon said, she
promised her father to keep his legacy, and that promise was kept in a
hall she financed and her brother Joe built in the style of a burley
tobacco barn.  There she presented the local artists she adored and
the famous who came to borrow bits of Carter magic.  She kept the
prices low and the quality high.  She had time for the most humble,
and enough love to fill this valley beside Clinch Mountain.  I came to
see her father at age 16, one of hundreds of mountain boys welcomed to
his porch.  Janette had been working in the garden on a warm July day
and spotted the Indian Scout motorcycle that had brought me over
eighty miles of twisting mountain road. She asked for a ride, and we
roared off down a gravel road to buy Pepsi.  She never mentioned that
ride until last year at the Carter Fold when Governor Mark Warner was
seated between us and a speaker grew long-winded. During a pause her
mountain voice rang out:  "Wisht you had that motorcycle and we could
go for a ride."

So in my mind the greatest Carter of all has gone for a motorcycle
ride, holding on tight, the wind in her face, all promises kept.

Joe Wilson

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