American Experience · SEASON 17
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Episode 10 · 2005-05-09
- Documentary
Episode overview
Recalls "the first family of country music" in interviews with Carter relatives, music writers, and singers Gillian Welch, Joan Baez, Marty Stuart and Rodney Crowell. The tough early lives of A.P. Carter, his sister Maybelle and wife Sara were lightened by music, and their 1927 RCA audition proved to be "the big bang of commercial country music." But A.P. and Sara's marriage couldn't survive the turmoil that followed.
55 minutes
Season 17 episodes
1. RFK (Part 1 & 2)2004-10-04
2. The Fight2005-01-24
3. Fidel Castro2005-01-31
4. Building the Alaska Highway2005-02-07
5. Kinsey2005-02-14
6. Mary Pickford2005-04-04
7. The Great Transatlantic Cable2005-04-11
8. The Massie Affair2005-04-18
9. Victory in the Pacific2005-05-02
10. The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?2005-05-09
11. Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst2005-05-23
