I had gotten to know Rosanne when she narrated (beautifully) my last music documentary
Welcome to the Club – The Women of Rockabilly. I’d been considering asking her about participating in a film about the Carters and Cashes when – somewhat out of the blue – she wrote me an email about a trip she’d just taken with her Dad and June to the Carter Family Fold, the music venue on the Original Carter Family’s property in Maces Spring, Virginia. She essentially said something like: You should be making a film here. I wrote back something like: Funny you should mention it. Nice coincidence. So it made perfect sense that she should be the first person we interviewed in the film. She has great reverence for the Carters. Here’s one of the reasons why…