676 The Chuck Wagon Gang “Higher” 1940

“The Carters were just tickled to be making records in 1936, a year after Dad Carter went to KFYO in Lubbock, hat in hands, to ask for a radio show for his quartet, which drew nightly praise from neighbors who gravitated to the Carters’ front porch every evening. The family, which included nine children, was dirt poor, laboring in the cotton fields, and when Anna (then called ‘Effie’) came down with pneumonia there was no money to pay a doctor. The Carters turned to music for extra cash…the quartet went on to create a body of work that stands at the top of the Southern gospel field” (Michael Corcoran, All Over the Map, 2005).

The Chuck Wagon Gang “Higher”