Sara Carter
| Sara Carter | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Sara Elizabeth Dougherty |
| Born |
July 21, 1898 Copper Creek, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | January 8, 1979 (aged 80) Lodi, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Country, folk, gospel |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, autoharp, guitar, Guitaro |
| Years active | 1927–1943, 1952-1956, 1960-1971 |
| Labels | Victor, ARC, Decca |
| Associated acts | Carter Family |
| Notable instruments | |
| Guitaro, Autoharp, Guitar | |
Sara Elizabeth Carter (née Dougherty; later Sara Carter Bayes; July 21, 1898 – January 8, 1979) was an American country music musician, singer, and songwriter. Remembered mostly for her deep, distinctive, mature singing voice, she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s. In her earliest recordings her voice was pitched very high.
Born in Copper Creek, Virginia, the daughter of William Sevier Dougherty and Nancy Elizabeth Kilgore, she married A. P. Carter on June 18, 1915, but they were later divorced in 1936. They had three children: Gladys (Mrs. Millard), Janette, and Joe.
In 1927, she and A.P. began performing as the Carter Family, perhaps the first commercial rural country music group. They were joined by her cousin, Maybelle, who was married to A.P.'s brother, Ezra Carter. Later, Sara married Coy Bayes, A.P.'s first cousin, and moved to California in 1943, and the original group disbanded. In the late 1940s, Maybelle began performing with her daughters Helen, June, and Anita as The Carter Sisters (the act was renamed The Carter Family during the 1960s).
On some Carter Family recordings, Sara is incorrectly credited as author of the songs "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" and "Keep on the Firing Line"; in truth she discovered these public domain songs when they were being sung at a Seventh-day Adventist church she visited. RCA gave her songwriter credit, as it did A.P. Carter on his public domain discoveries. The Carter family recordings of these tunes brought the songs wide fame. She did write or co-write several other songs, including "My Foothills Home", "The Dying Soldier", "Lonesome Pine Special, Farther On", and "Railroading on the Great Divide".
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