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Cousin Emmy
12+ albums
countryfolkbluegrassamericanold time
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Cynthia May Carver (March 14, 1903 – April 11, 1980), known professionally as Cousin Emmy, was a banjo player, fiddler and country singer who was one of the pioneering solo female stars in the country music industry. Although hit records eluded her, she proved to be a major name in personal appearances and on radio in the 1940s and 50s. In the 1960s she gained a new audience on the folk music circuit. Her song "Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man?" became a bluegrass standard after it was covered by the Osborne Brothers. She started out her career by playing with Frankie Moore's Log Cabin Boys. She influenced the playing of Grandpa Jones. She appeared in two films, Swing in the Saddle and The Second Greatest Sex. Cousin Emmy was born into a family of sharecroppers, with six older siblings and one younger. Cousin Emmy began performing as a small child. Playing five-string banjo, she performed with two Carver cousins in a band broadcast on WHB in Kansas City, Missouri. After developing a following in her native Barren County, Kentucky, she eventually attracted the attention of radio station WHAS in Louisville, where she became a featured act with Frankie Moore's Log Cabin Boys in 1935. Between her radio performances, she performed in live shows, often traveling as much as 500 miles in one day. In 1935, she won the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest – the first woman to do so. By 1938, she had her own touring group and a radio program. As her radio shows gained popularity, she move
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albums
Kentucky Mountain Ballads
Kentucky Moutain Ballads
New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy
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Oxford American 10th Anniversary Music Sampler - Future Masters
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Man Of Constant Sorrow And Other Timeless Mountain Ballads
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The Story That the Crow Told Me, Vol. 1: Early American Rural Children's, Songs Classic
Cousin Emmy And Her Kinfolks 1939-1947
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Country Boy's Dream
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American Folk & Country Festival
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Man Of Constant Sorrow And Other Timeless Moun
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Oxford American 10th Anniversary Music Sampler, [Disc 1]: "Future Masters" [Oxford American, 2008]
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Man of Constant Sorrow (and Other Timeless Mountain Ballads)