Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. In 1949, Maybelle & The Carter Sisters, along with their lead guitarist, a young Chet Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, TN, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural born clown, if there ever was one." She attended John Marshall High School during this period.Īfter Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine.
June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent-comedy. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for "Red Star Flour", "Martha White", and "Thalhimers Department Store", just to name a few. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell)-Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively-known as "The Virginia Boys," joined them in late 1945. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter Family from the age of ten, beginning in 1939. June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle Carter and Ezra Carter. 31 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music in 2002. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
She played the guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash.
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