Qualla: A. P. Carter Store https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-store en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/a-p-carter-store-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: A. P. Carter Store https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-store A. P. Carter Store: Introduction https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-store/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. After the records stopped selling and the original Carter Family group dissolved, A.P. Carter came home to Maces Spring and opened a store. He built it himself, with friends, in 1945 - a one-story frame building with a cross-gable roof, set along the road in Poor Valley. He sold flour, sugar, kerosene, the small daily necessities of mountain life. The store was modest. So were his customers. The man who had helped reshape American music spent the rest of his life behind a counter in the place he was born.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/a-p-carter-store-wp/dnt2-a-p-carter-store-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full A. P. Carter Store: A Career Built and Set Aside https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-store/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. Between 1927 and 1941, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter recorded close to three hundred songs. Their records introduced a generation of listeners to ballads, hymns, and dance tunes that had been carried into the southern mountains by Scots-Irish, English, and African American sing...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/a-p-carter-store-wp/dnt2-a-p-carter-store-a-career-built-and-set-aside.mp3 0:06 2 full A. P. Carter Store: Behind the Counter https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-store/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. The building is simple. One story, frame walls, the cross-gable roof typical of mid-century country stores. A.P. and his friends raised it in 1945. He lived in part of it and conducted business in another part - the residence and the store under one roof, the way a great many sma...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/a-p-carter-store-wp/dnt2-a-p-carter-store-behind-the-counter.mp3 0:06 3 full A. P. Carter Store: Museum and Memory https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-store/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. The store building is now the Carter Family Museum, run by the Carter Family Memorial Music Center alongside the Carter Family Fold. It was renovated in September 2009. After the work was done, a crowd gathered to watch Rita Forrester - Janette Carter's daughter and A.P.'s grandd...

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