Song Trailer: A.P. Carter

A.P. (Alvin Pleasant Delaney) Carter (1891-1960) founded the country music group the Carter Family in 1927, consisting of his wife Sara and sister-in-law Maybelle (she was married to A.P.’s brother, Ezra Carter). After the group sold over 300,000 records at the end of 1930, A.P. travelled around the southwestern Virginia area in search of new songs, with the help of guitarist Leslie Riddle, to collect and copywrite.