'Circle' embraces first family of country music

As Joan Baez says in tonight's sweetly affecting documentary on the Carter family, there are ''very few songs that make it to the campfires around the world." One, she notes, is ''Will the Circle Be Unbroken," a signature tune from the Carters, who were known as the first family of country music. (Full article: 469 words)

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