tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38082149486899290792024-03-13T12:29:39.203-07:00Carter Family Comics: Don't Forget This Blog!Frank M. Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673579882180372546noreply@blogger.comBlogger214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-19191504288966806412019-09-24T13:23:00.000-07:002019-09-24T16:45:03.973-07:00What Makes The Old Songs Old?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few years ago, singer-songwriter Wes Weddell, as part of a Bushwick Book Club event, wrote a beautiful song inspired by our book "The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song". It was called "What Makes The Old Songs Old?" and this year it was officially released on Wes's album "Somewhere in the Middle."<br />
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<a href="http://www.wesweddell.com/Wordpress/music/" target="_blank">Give it a listen on Wes's web page</a>. And if you like it, please order Wes's album.<br />
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You can also find Wes on <a href="https://wesweddell.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>.<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-57696849006325297722019-09-16T14:50:00.002-07:002019-09-16T15:16:36.901-07:00Ken Burns' "Country Music" highlights the Carter Family <br />
I caught the first episode of "Country Music", the new epic documentary by Ken Burns, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Carter Family was prominently highlighted, as well as Leslie Riddle. It was gratifying to see some of the historic moments that I'd drawn in the Carter Family graphic novel chronicled in the Burns style with old photos, voiceovers, interviews, and of course: music.<br />
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Positive <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/country-music-review-a-documentary-makes-a-complex-genre-sing-11568233280" target="_blank">reviews</a> are appearing, and for anyone who missed it, I believe the episode can be viewed online <a href="https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />-David Lasky<br /><br /><br />#CarterFamily<br />#CountryMusic<br />#KenBurns<br /><br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-74929755004401549742019-08-18T14:24:00.000-07:002019-09-16T15:16:54.303-07:00Maybelle Carter Honored on NPR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's exciting to see a whole series of articles on NPR's website honoring <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/747568871/maybelle-carter-turning-the-tables" target="_blank">Maybelle Carter as one of "8 Women Who Invented American Popular Music."</a><br />
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Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-77800111884512043372019-02-08T14:16:00.002-08:002019-08-18T14:25:13.352-07:00Something cool in Sacramento<br />
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It's a Johnny Cash mural by artist Shepard Fairey! Looks great.<br />It recently <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article225571040.html?fbclid=IwAR20Y9iT-v4Yfhnu83D2pXClUKBlY_oaIEE3mxodZAbzyGcH8c_TgE5pnYI" target="_blank">received some recognition. </a><br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-43639700601018546932018-04-13T12:23:00.000-07:002018-04-13T12:23:09.626-07:00Spotted in Olympia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />George Lawson spotted "The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song" in a store in Olympia, WA. How nice to see it in the company of so many cool graphic novels. Thanks for the photo, George!<br /><br /><br /><br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-66035912870390511062018-04-10T18:35:00.000-07:002018-04-10T18:35:18.342-07:00Windows to the Past: David Lasky talks about the making of "Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />David Lasky, co-author of "Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song," will talk about the making of the book, as well as the making of "Oregon Trail: Road to Destiny," on April 11, 2018 on the campus of SPU in Seattle. The event goes from 7 to 9pm. There is a charge of $15 for non-members to attend. <a href="https://chinookupdate.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-scbwi-wwa-meeting-with-david-lasky.html">More info here.</a><br /><br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-8564311311092292022018-02-13T17:10:00.000-08:002018-02-13T17:10:36.072-08:00Frank Young on Frank King<br />
When Frank and I decided on the visual look of "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Carter-Family-Dont-Forget-This/dp/0810988364" target="_blank">Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song</a>", the classic comic strip "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_Alley" target="_blank">Gasoline Alley</a>" by Frank King was a major visual touchstone for us.<br />
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Frank has recently reviewed a lavish new book of Frank King's early work, pre-Gasoline-Alley. <a href="http://www.tcj.com/reviews/crazy-quilt-scraps-panels-on-the-way-to-gasoline-alley/" target="_blank">You can read the review here</a>.Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-10732909186126082982017-11-25T18:50:00.001-08:002017-11-25T18:51:25.982-08:00To Laugh That We May Not Weep <br />Frank Young's newest book, co-authored with Glenn Bray, is a gorgeous coffee table art book on illustrator and cartoonist Art Young (no relation), who produced many, many cartoons in the early 20th century, political and non-political, but has remained largely unknown in our time. Until now.<br />
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Michael Tisserand (who wrote the definitive biography of Krazy Kat cartoonist George Herriman) has reviewed the book, "To Laugh That We May Not Weep", for the Chicago Tribune. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-art-young-to-laugh-that-we-may-not-weep-1126-story.html" target="_blank">Read the review here</a>, then go out and purchase the book as a gift for the cartoon lover in your life (or for yourself)!<br />
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Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-68852061195568887832017-07-16T20:32:00.000-07:002017-07-16T20:32:09.654-07:00Leslie Riddle Honored<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Leslie Riddle, who taught the Carter Family some of their best songs, has been honored in Burnsville, NC with a historical highway marker. <a href="https://www.ncdcr.gov/press-release/nc-highway-historical-marker-honors-african-american-county-music-innovator" target="_blank">Details here.</a> (with thanks to Ron McConnell for the info!) <br /><br />Also worth noting: Burnsville hosts an annual <a href="http://www.citizen-times.com/story/entertainment/events/2016/06/21/annual-riddlefest-celebrates-life-burnsville-musician/85978554/" target="_blank">RiddleFest</a>! I hope to attend one of these times...<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-47645198876777342802017-07-13T16:26:00.000-07:002017-07-13T16:26:38.621-07:00My Aunt Karen found a copy of the Spanish edition on a recent trip to Spain!<br />Thanks for the photo, Chris and Karen!<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-54523273336653489682017-05-04T15:06:00.001-07:002017-05-04T15:08:22.120-07:00La Familia Carter -- Our graphic novel is now available in a Spanish language edition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />My high school Spanish teacher, Sra. Pettigrew, recently took this photo in a "large and classy bookstore" in Barcelona. I'm thrilled to see our book available in Spain.<br /><br />Frank and I have been excited by the fact that our graphic novel of the Carter Family's story has been translated into Spanish. It's all thanks to Madrid publisher Impedimenta, who has done an excellent job, even designing a great new cover!<br /><a href="http://impedimenta.es/libros.php/la-familia-carter" target="_blank">Here is the publisher's page for this edition.</a><br /><br />
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Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-68276814888378857212017-04-18T17:14:00.001-07:002017-05-04T15:09:01.415-07:00Alicia Keys reworks a Carter Family classic<br />
I'm listening to Alicia Key's "Here" album and got a great surprise when the song "Pawn it All" came on. She has reworked the Carter Family's "Gold Watch and Chain" into something that is all her own. The Carter Family's song, recorded in 1933, was a reworking of the 1879 Thomas P. Westendorf song, "Is There No Kiss for Me Tonight, Love."<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-84556977939296610762017-02-20T11:18:00.001-08:002017-02-20T11:18:22.701-08:00"Fools Like Me:" Frank Young's novel of country music and forbidden love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Frank M. Young, who is in recovery from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, has used his time of enforced rest to bring into publication a country music-themed novel he wrote in the 1990s, with some later editing.<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Like-Me-Frank-Young/dp/1542838991/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487617275&sr=1-2">Fools Like Me</a></i> tells the story of two high-school graduates living in a small town in Georgia who try to break into the country-western field, but find intense personal complications instead.<br />
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You can browse amazon.com's "Look Inside this Book" feature by clicking on the book title above, which takes you right to the website's page for this title.<br />
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Portions of this book are definitely on the adult side, so reader discretion is advised. If you're interested in seeing some of Young's prose, this is one of three novels he has out at present. Peruse his author profile to see the other titles. Thanks for your consideration!Frank M. Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673579882180372546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-81419883788604526432016-11-01T18:56:00.002-07:002016-11-01T18:58:58.016-07:00The Comics Reporter Interview, Oct 2012<br />
For any readers who may have missed this in 2012, I'm happy to re-present our interview with Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter:<br />
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In November of last year, The Bushwick Book Club of Seattle performed songs inspired by "The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song." It was a wonderful one time event. The highlight, for me, was Amanda Sue Winterhalter's "Sugar Water." The song describes the travails of Sara Carter, with references to the tree that A.P. planted, and was sung in an acapella mountain style reminsicent of Sara Carter's. The performance and the song gave me chills!<br />
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It's so nice to see "Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song" in such good company on Paste Magazine's list of <a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/5-great-music-biographies-as-graphic-novels.html" target="_blank">Five Great Musical Biographies as Graphic Novels</a>. <div>
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It's been written that when Life Magazine photographer Eric Schaal visited the Carters in Maces Spring in 1941, the girls did cartwheels and handstands to show off for him. Frank and I depicted it briefly in our graphic novel, "<a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/carter-family_9780810988361/" target="_blank">The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song</a>." But until now, I didn't think Schaal had taken any photos of the girls. I thought I'd seen all of his shots, via Life Magazine's online photo archive.<br />
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Well, imagine my surprise today when web searching for photos from the shoot, and there is Anita Carter (credited as June, but I think it's Anita) doing a handstand! There were two others featuring her acrobatics. All featured in a gallery with a <a href="http://time.com/3770715/carter-family/" target="_blank">TIME article on the Carter Family from last year</a>. What a fun surprise!<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-53702921760164666572016-07-04T13:30:00.002-07:002016-07-04T13:30:43.132-07:00Rest in peace, Dr. Ralph Stanley<br />
In June, the world lost one of its great musicians and singers, Ralph Stanley. To honor his memory, I've chosen his haunting rendition of the Carters' "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone."<br />
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NOW AVAILABLE! THE WINDING STREAM!</div>
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The Winding Stream – The Carters, the Cashes and the Course of Country Music is available today!</div>
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Our award-winning, critically-lauded, audience-beloved film about the foundational family at the heart of Americana music is finally out!</div>
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Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-45742668011564174202016-05-12T00:47:00.000-07:002016-05-12T00:47:06.708-07:00Arhoolie acquired by Smithsonian Folkways<br />
Arhoolie Records was crucial to the "Carter Family" graphic novel having a CD of music included with each copy. I am happy to hear that the legendary label has been<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Bay-Area-independent-label-Arhoolie-Records-7448540.php?cmpid=fb-desktop" target="_blank"> acquired by The Smithsonian</a>!<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-62707411900288700282016-05-10T13:22:00.000-07:002016-05-10T13:22:50.086-07:00Today is the birth anniversary of Maybelle Carter...<br />
On this day in 1909, Maybelle Carter, one of the most important musicians in American music was born in Nickelsville, Virginia. Thanks, David Steward, for linking me to <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/note/may-10-2016-birthday-mother-maybelle-carter/" target="_blank">this Writer's Almanac page</a> which marks the occasion and describes Maybelle's role in the historic Bristol Sessions.<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-34527447848893724612016-04-09T11:02:00.000-07:002016-04-09T11:03:50.290-07:00A.P. Carter and Spiderman (and Pizza)<br />Emerald City Comic Con has taken over the WA State Convention Center this weekend, and to mark the occasion, Seattle pizza chain Pagliacci has<a href="http://www.pagliacci.com/blog/news/post/meet-david-lasky" target="_blank"> interviewed me about superheroes in their newsletter</a>. (Yes, it's a pizza restaurant with its own newsletter!) Writer Louis Whitford and I got pretty deep talking about superheroes as part of the culture... and of course we also talked about The Carter Family. It may be the first time A.P. Carter has ever been compared with Spiderman!<div>
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I am honored to announce that I was asked by one of the world's greatest radio stations, KEXP, to create a short comic about Johnny Cash on the anniversary of his birth, and event they have named International Cash Day. June Carter is of course a character in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Carter-Family-Dont-Forget/dp/0810988364" target="_blank">The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song</a>", and she and Johnny appear in the coda of the book. I am excited to have continued the story...<br />
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<br />Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-14528213914713859342015-12-12T01:24:00.001-08:002015-12-12T13:40:03.240-08:00 About "The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song"<br />
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“The Carter
Family: Don't Forget This Song” is a graphic novel that tells the
true story of one of the earliest and most influential recorded
country music groups. At the heart of the story is Alvin Pleasant
Carter (known as A.P.), a farmer born in a lonely valley in
Appalachia who has dreams of making a living with music, his great
passion in life. And amazingly, his dreams do come true – but at
the price of his marriage and the stability of his family. <br />
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<span style="line-height: 100%;">A.P.'s
wife Sara, orphaned at a young age, lives with a permanent sadness
that colors her haunting singing voice. Sara has little desire to be
a celebrity, but follows the whims of her husband.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 100%;">Sara's
teenage cousin Maybelle is a guitar virtuoso who would become as
innovative and influential with her acoustic Gibson as Jimi Hendrix
would later be on the electric guitar. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 100%;">Together, the three
Carters changed American music in ways that would touch, among
others, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Cash (who would become
Maybelle's son-in-law through his marriage to June Carter). </span></div>
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The
“Carter Family” graphic novel was co-plotted by Frank Young and
David Lasky. David drew the art, assisted by a small team of
background inkers. Frank wrote all the dialogue, and also colored the
entire book in a palette that beautifully evokes the great newspaper
comic strips of the 1930's. They've attempted to capture the in words
and pictures the heartfelt honesty heard in the music of the Carter
Family. <br />
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This book will make an excellent gift for anyone in your life who loves a good story. Please ask for it by name at your local general store. Or, if you must, order it from a reputable online merchant.<br />
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Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808214948689929079.post-57957339076996506362015-12-03T17:43:00.002-08:002015-12-03T17:43:55.082-08:00Bristol Sessions Movie is Filming Now<br />
Thanks to Ron McConnell, I just learned that a movie about the Bristol Sessions, the historic "big bang of country music" (which is depicted from the Carters' point of view in "Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song"), is being filmed right now in Bristol, TN/VA! <br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cindy-lovell/orthophonic-joy-the-1927-bristol-sessions-revisited_b_7433766.html" target="_blank">Here's a link to an article on the subject.</a><br />
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The film is a celebration of the sessions themselves, and the new album "Orthophonic Joy" (which I have not yet heard, but am going to seek out!) on which contemporary artists cover Bristol Sessions songs (acoustically, of course!).<br />
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