The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song

The Carter Family: Don�� Forget This Song is a rich and compelling original graphic novel that tells the story of the Carter Family��he first superstar group of country music��ho made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records. Many of their hit songs, such as ��ildwood Flower��and ��ill the Circle Be Unbroken,��have influenced countless musicians and remain timeless country standards.

The Carter Family: Don�� Forget This Song is not only a unique illustrated biography, but a moving account that reveals the family�� rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music. Illustrated with exacting detail and written in the Southern dialect of the time, its dynamic narrative is pure Americana. It is also a story of success and failure, of poverty and wealth, of racism and tolerance, of creativity and business, and of the power of music and love.

Includes bonus CD with original Carter Family music.

Praise for The Carter Family:

"What a fine marriage of form and content! Humble and moving��traightforward with occasional breathtaking bravura passages��his book echoes the Carter Family's rough-hewn sounds. It tells of the lives, sorrows, and values of a lost America in short episodes like a giant stack of old 78s. Using the vocabulary of comic strips like Little Orphan Annie and Gasoline Alley, it's as obsessive in its dedication to vernacular craft and hard work as A.P. Carter himself. Frank Young and David Lasky have spun a work of visual music that will replay in your head and heart well after you've finished reading it."

��rt Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/artist of Maus