An Afternoon with Mother Maybelle Carter

July 2017

An Afternoon with Mother Maybelle is a one-woman poetic monologue play set to music by Peggy Douglas. The theater production ran from July 8-10, 2017, at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga, TN. 

"Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member of the original Carter Family act from the late 1920s until the early 1940s and a member of the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle group.