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Maybelle Carter

Maybelle Carter
Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player (d. 1978)

"Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member of the original Carter Family act from the late 1920s until the early 1940s and a member of the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle group.

10 May 1909

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