Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music

Mark Zwonitzer · Charles Hirshberg

Jun 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Chris Abernathy

About this audiobook

The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music. Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than passing, has continued to exist in the music that is the legacy of the Carters-songs that have shaped and influenced generations of artists who have followed them. Brilliant in insight and execution, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? is also an in-depth study of A. P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter, and their bittersweet story of love and fulfillment, sadness, and loss. The result is more than just a biography of a family; it is also a journey into another time, almost another world, and theirs is a story that resonates today and lives on in the timeless music they created.

About the author

Mark Zwonitzer is a writer and director whose work appears nationally on public television. He is currently finishing up work on a documentary about the creation of the transcontinental railroad and hopes to begin working on a documentary about the Carter Family soon. He lives in Connecticut.

Charles Hirshberg is an American journalist and sportswriter. A frequent contributor to Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine, he has won numerous journalism awards on topics ranging from physics to country music. He is coauthor, with Mark Zwonitzer, of Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?.

Chris Abernathy is a lifelong professional storyteller who found his calling telling scary stories to campers around a roaring fire at Camp Sumatanga in Alabama. In 2015 he began narrating audiobooks and now works full-time from his home studio.