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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
Hardcover / e-Book
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Graphic Novel | Fiction Family Life
The Carter Family: Donβt Forget This Song is a rich and compelling original graphic novel that tells the story of the Carter Familyβthe first superstar group of country musicβwho made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records. Many of their hit songs, such as βWildwood Flowerβ and βWill the Circle Be Unbroken,β have influenced countless musicians and remain timeless country standards. The Carter Family: Donβt Forget This Song is not only a unique illustrated biography, but a moving account that reveals the familyβs 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 movingβstraightforward with occasional breathtaking bravura passagesβthis 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." βArt Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/artist of Maus
 Media BuzzMorning Edition - December 13, 2012
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