Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and ( Mother ) Maybelle Carter brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally.

In 1949 he left WNOX to join June Carter with Mother Maybelle & The Carter Sisters back on KWTO.

This incarnation of the old Carter Family featured Maybelle Carter and daughters June, Helen and Anita.

* October 23 – Maybelle Carter, American singer ( b. 1909 )

Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, inherited the house from Maybelle Carter after her death, and sold it in 2002 shortly before their deaths in 2003.

Maybelle Carter, bluegrass artist, mother of June Carter Cash.

* October 23 – Maybelle Carter née Addington, 69, US country singer and musician, member of the Carter Family

" Delaney Carter ( 1891 – 1960 ), his wife Sara Dougherty Carter ( 1898 – 1979 ), and his sister-in-law Maybelle Addington Carter ( 1909 – 1978 ).

Throughout the group's career, Sara Carter sang lead vocals ; Maybelle sang harmony and accompanied the group instrumentally ; on some songs A. P.

and Sara ( Janette Carter, Joe Carter ) and those of Maybelle ( June Carter, Anita Carter, Helen Carter ) joined the group for radio performances, now in San Antonio, Texas, where the programs were prerecorded and distributed to multiple border radio stations.

Maybelle continued to perform with her daughters, Anita, June, and Helen, as " The Carter Sisters " ( sometimes billed as " Maybelle Carter and the Carter Sisters " or " Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters ").

Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel " May Belle " ( or " Maybelle ") Stephens, was a suffragist.

In April 1957, Burke, who was at this time promoted as " Lord Solomon ," appeared on an all-star show at Chicago's Regal Theater with Screamin ' Jay Hawkins, The Dells, The Spaniels, Big Maybelle, Little Esther Phillips, The Sensations, Junior Parker, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Nappy Brown, Annie Laurey, and bassist Al Smith's Orchestra.

Maybelle was married to A. P.

had persuaded Sara and Maybelle the day before to make the journey from Maces Spring, Virginia, to Bristol, Virginia, to audition for record producer Ralph Peer, who was seeking new talents for the relatively embryonic recording industry.

They were joined by Sara's cousin, Maybelle, who was married to A. P.

" Mother " Maybelle Carter ( May 10, 1909 – October 23, 1978 ) was an American country musician.

She was widely respected and loved by the Grand Ole Opry community of the early 1950s, and was popularly known as " Mother Maybelle " and a matriarchal figure in country music circles although only in her forties at the time.

Maybelle was also featured on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 recording Will the Circle Be Unbroken.

Maybelle Carter died in 1978 after a few years of poor health, and was interred next to her husband, Ezra, in Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Maybelle Carter was inducted as part of The Carter Family in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970.

Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr ( February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889 ), better known as Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw.

She was born Myra Maybelle Shirley ( known as May to her family ) on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri.

Mabel Louise Smith ( May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972 ), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R & B singer and pianist.

However, in 1952 she was signed by Okeh Records, whose record producer Fred Mendelsohn gave her the stage name Big Maybelle.

Her final album, Last of Big Maybelle, was released posthumously in 1973.

She was born at St. James Hospital, in Butte, Montana as Margy Reed, where her Irish immigrant parents, Peter F. Reed and Maybelle Hooper, were performing at a local vaudeville theatre as " Reed and Hooper.

Maphis ' guitar hero was Mother Maybelle Carter, matriarch of the Carter Family.

On April 22, 2008, Lewis replaced Darlene Love as Motormouth Maybelle in Broadway's Hairspray, a role that was originally written for her.

The film was released July 20, 2007, starring John Travolta as Edna, Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma, Christopher Walken as Wilbur, Amanda Bynes as Penny Pingleton, Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle, James Marsden as Corny, Zac Efron as Link, and newcomer Nikki Blonsky as Tracy.

Also surviving are Mary Anderson ( born April 3, 1920 ), who played Maybelle Meriweather and Mickey Kuhn ( born September 21, 1932 ), who played Beau Wilkes.

Also surviving is Olivia de Havilland ( born 1 July 1916 ), who played India's sister-in-law Melanie Wilkes, Mary Anderson ( born April 3, 1920 ), who played Maybelle Merriweather and Mickey Kuhn ( born September 21, 1932 ) who played Beau Wilkes.

Maybelle, who played autoharp and banjo as well as being the group's guitarist, created a unique sound for the group with her innovative ' scratch ' style of guitar playing, where she used her thumb to play melody on the bass and middle strings, and her index finger to fill out the rhythm.

Maybelle and her daughters toured during the 1950s and 1960s as " Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters " but after the death of A. P. Carter in 1960 the group revived the name " The Carter Family ", frequently touring with Johnny Cash ( her son-in-law from 1968 on ); the group were regular performers on Cash's weekly network variety show from 1969-71.

* The Carter Family ( A. P., Sara and Maybelle ): Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow, Little Log Cabin By the Sea, The Storms are on the Ocean, Single Girl, Married Girl, The Wandering Boy ( 8 / 1, last two 8 / 2 )

Anita, June, Helen and Mother Maybelle Carter performed a memorable live version of this song on an appearance filmed in color by Albert Gannaway in Nashville in the mid-1950s.

*" Mother " Maybelle Carter ( 1909 – 1978 ), musician, songwriter

* Helen Carter ( 1927 – 1998 ), country singer & daughter of Maybelle Carter

* Anita Carter ( 1933 – 1999 ), singer-musician & daughter of Maybelle Carter

Maybelle's daughter June Carter Cash and June's husband Johnny Cash so admired Maphis ' guitar playing that Maphis is buried in a Hendersonville, Tennessee cemetery next to Maybelle, her husband, Ezra Carter, and her daughter, Anita Carter.

Born in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, Big Maybelle sang gospel as a child and by her teens had switched to rhythm and blues.