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Authentic Elvis Presley & Maybelle Carter Autographs Souvenir Album - $7,200 (Shelton)
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About the Program: In Person! Elvis Presley, Country Music's "Mr. Rhythm", Sensational * New RCA Victor Singing Star With Blue Moon Boys. Program Also Includes: "The Story Of Elvis Presley", Photos Of The Louvin Brothers, Benny Martin, June Carter, Justin Tubb, And Mother Maybelle And The Carter Sisters.
What make this auction extra rare are the additional signatures. The name at the top of the program is Shorty Lavender. He was staff fiddle player for WSM radio in the 1950's. He also played fiddle for Marty Robbins and Ray Price among others. In his later years, he became a booking agent.
Benny Martin signed on his photo in the program. He was an American bluegrass fiddler who invented the eight-string fiddle. Throughout his musical career he performed with artists such as the Bluegrass Boys, Don Reno, the Smoky Mountain Boys and Flatt and Scruggs, and later performed and recorded with the Stanley Brothers, Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Johnnie and Jack, and the Stonemans, among others. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
On top of that, Mother Maybelle Carter signed on her photo. Maybelle married Ezra Carter. They had three daughters, Helen, June and Anita.
She was a member of the Carter Family, formed in 1927 by her brother-in-law A. P. Carter, who was married to her cousin Sara, also a part of the trio. The Carter Family was one of the first commercial rural country music groups. Maybelle helped create the group's unique sound with her innovative style of guitar playing, using her thumb to play melody on the bass strings, and her index finger to fill out the rhythm. Her technique, sometimes known as the Carter Scratch, influenced the guitar's shift from rhythm to lead instrument.
She was widely respected in the Grand Ole Opry community of the early 1950s, a matriarchal figure in country music circles who was popularly known as "Mother Maybelle" although only in her forties at the time. Maybelle and her daughters toured from the 1940s through the 1960s as "The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle", but after the death of A. P. Carter in 1960 the group revived the name "The Carter Family". They frequently toured with Johnny Cash, her son-in-law from 1968 on; the group were regular performers on Cash's weekly network variety show from 1969 to 1971. She briefly reunited with former Carter Family member Sara Carter during the 1960s folk music craze, with Sara singing lead and Maybelle providing harmony as before.
$7,200 cash. Shipping option is available.
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