AP Carter

About

American country music singer who founded the country singing group The Carter Family. He wrote songs like "No Depression in Heaven."

Before Fame

He was born to parents Robert C. Carter and Mollie Arvelle Bays and grew up in a poor area of Virginia called Maces Spring.

Trivia

He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Family Life

He married Sara Dougherty in 1915 and the couple had three children.

Associated With

Emmylou Harris' song "How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower" on her 2008 album, All I Intended to Be, is about Carter's relationship with his wife Sara.