On this day (January 8) in 1979, Sara Carter, the lead singer and autoharp player on many of the Carter Family’s recordings, died in Lodi, California. She was 79 years old. She was a member of the ...

If influential Appalachian songbird Sara Carter were still alive, she would have turned 126 years old today, July 21. Carter was an original member of The Carter Family. She was the autoharp ...

Here's a story John Cohen tells about Harry Smith, the avant-garde filmmaker, beatnik polymath and ethnomusicologist who died in 1991. In the mid-1940s, Smith visited Sara Carter, lead singer for the ...