Ralph Peer's first Southern hit was fiddler John Carson from Atlanta, Georgia, whose first recording of The Little Old Log Cabin and The Old Hen Cackled sold more than 500,000 copies nationwide.Â
The Carters crisscrossed the country, traveling to New Jersey in 1929 and 1933 for additional recording sessions, and to Louisville in 1931 to record with Jimmie Rodgers.
By 1938 the Carters' fortunes were on the wane; then came the Consolidated Royal Chemical Corporation offer for a twice daily radio show, for the princely sum of $75 each per week.
Nearly struck by lightning during her pregnancy, Mollie Carter forever after will ascribe A.P.'s tremor, and the quaver for which his singing will become known, to that near miss.
Robert Stone discusses his approach to making Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, and offers his ideas about why the story is compelling in the post-September 11th world.
In this edited excerpt from their book, The Voices of Guns, journalists Vin McLellan and Paul Avery describe the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst, and discuss their motivations.
