The story of Virginia's musical Carter family is filled with thepathos, humor and endurance of the country music they helped turnloose on the rest of the nation. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? TheCarter Family & Their Legacy in American Music, by Mark Zwonitzer andCharles Hirshberg (Simon & Schuster, $15) tells their story.
The Carters, whose hundreds of recorded songs included suchclassics as "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" and "Keep on the SunnySide," weren't simply an act, the authors tell us in theintroduction. "They were the real deal." The following 400 pages ofdetail about lives that spanned and created enormous change offerstrong support for that …
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