Carver Boys's lyrics & chords

The Carver Boys that recorded a series of sides for Paramount in the late '20s was just one chapter in a family history that included bands performing under this name back into the 1800s. The family's musical patriarch was Lorenzo Dow Carver, who was born in Kentucky in 1874. He led bands made up of various combinations of family members throughout that state and neighboring Tennessee from 1900 through approximately 1910. The family's most famous performing member was Emmy Carver, best-known to the bluegrass and old-time music world as the rauc...read more