Legend has it that many of Nascar’s original drivers ... store once run by A.P. Carter, as well as his tiny boyhood house, which Johnny Cash—who married Maybelle’s daughter, June Carter ...

Mother Maybelle earns her place among the best female guitarists thanks to her invention of the style known variously as thumb brush, the church lick, and, most famously, as Carter Family picking.

Carter, the Grammy-winning member of one of country music’s pioneering families and the wife of country giant Johnny Cash, joins as this year’s veteran era artist. Chesney, who has won the CMA ...