Will You Miss Me When Im Gone?, Mark Zwonitzer
Will You Miss Me When Im Gone?, Mark Zwonitzer
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Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music

Author: Mark Zwonitzer, Charles Hirshberg

Narrator: Chris Abernathy

Unabridged: 14 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2021

Synopsis

The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music.

Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than passing, has continued to exist in the music that is the legacy of the Carters—songs that have shaped and influenced generations of artists who have followed them.

Brilliant in insight and execution, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? is also an in-depth study of A. P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter, and their bittersweet story of love and fulfillment, sadness, and loss. The result is more than just a biography of a family; it is also a journey into another time, almost another world, and theirs is a story that resonates today and lives on in the timeless music they created.

About Mark Zwonitzer

Mark Zwonitzer is a writer and director whose work appears nationally on public television. He is currently finishing up work on a documentary about the creation of the transcontinental railroad and hopes to begin working on a documentary about the Carter Family soon. He lives in Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

There’s too much to say about the Carter Family. I could start with their oddball personalities : the chirpy, pocketsized indomitable Maybelle, the spaced-out Alvin Pleasant (note great middle name - how nice to have been called Paul Pleasant Bryant or Paul Niceenoughwhenyougettoknowhim Bryant), an......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith

I really wanted to read this book. What I found was more of an oral history than a scholarly approach to the first family of American Music. Even from it's anecdotal orientation the book is a hagiography. That said, much of the Ken Burns documentary Country Music (2019) pertaining to the Carter Fami......more

Goodreads review by Paul

This is one of my very favorite books. You know that book that each of us has in our collection that we want everyone to read? That book that we loan to friends, family, colleagues, and (I suppose in some cases) strangers, just wanting them to read it because we KNOW they'll love it? This is tha......more

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