Talk:James Carter and the Prisoners

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Notable? unitas (talk) 12:55, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

There are no notability standards for music. You can fart into a microphone and get a wikipedia article written about you, your home town, your fart song album artwork and the producer who published it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.191.119.125 (talk) 02:21, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

1) What you say is not true (see Wikipedia:Notability (music)). 2) James Carter and the Prisoners did the lead track on a multi-million-selling album that won the Grammy for Best Album of the year. NPR did a profile of James Carter on Morning Edition or All Things Considered. Etc... AnonMoos (talk) 20:20, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Florida Journalist

Unnamed in the NYT was Chris Gier of the Gasden Times. Excellent article reproduced here: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=20020301&id=bc4wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QN0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1291,12006 This could be incorporated into article about Carter, especially Anna Lomax's remark that James Carter was "the missing brother" (don't have time right now). Also needed is a wiki article about the ballad "Poor Lazarus" and about bad man ballads as a category, if it hasn't been done already. "Po Lazarus" was collected and hand transcribed by Howard Odum and James Johnson as an example of a bad man ballad in the early years of the twentieth century. They speculate is is based on a real incident. I have heard it was John A. Lomax's favorite song. The James Carter version is especially powerful. Also the opening staging of the three convicts in the chain gain was based on Alan Lomax's 1959 photo.Mballen (talk) 08:11, 18 May 2013 (UTC)