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Don't Forget This Song
Abrams ComicArts
October 2012
On Sale: October 1, 2012
192 pages
ISBN: 0810988364
EAN: 9780810988361
Kindle: B00AOJE11G
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Graphic Novel | Fiction Family Life
The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song is a rich
and compelling original graphic novel that tells the story
of the Carter Family—the first superstar group of country
music—who made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of
records. Many of their hit songs, such as “Wildwood Flower”
and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” have influenced countless
musicians and remain timeless country standards.
The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song is not only
a unique illustrated biography, but a moving account that
reveals the family’s 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—straightforward with occasional breathtaking bravura
passages—this 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." —Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer
Prize-winning writer/artist of Maus
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