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Wilf Carter
Canada • 1904-12-18 – 1996-12-05
Wilf Carter is credited on 228 releases across 82 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
228
Pressings credited
82
Albums
8
Decades active
14
In collections
Biography
Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter (December 18, 1904 – December 5, 1996), professionally known as Wilf Carter in his native Canada and also as Montana Slim in the United States, was a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeller. Carter was said to have pioneered the transitional bridge between authentic cowboy folk music and the carefully composed romantic Hollywood singing cowboy genre. In 1984, He was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame He wrote over 500 songs, and is an inductee to the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame In 1971, Wilf Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Widely acknowledged as the father of Canadian country music, Carter was Canada's first country music star, inspiring a generation of young Canadian performers.
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Credited work
228 releases · 82 albums · active 1950–2020
- Performance · 567
- Other credits · 9
- Production · 5
Studios: Hadley Studios, Tamworth · Horseshoe Tavern · The Arts And Culture Centre, St. John's · Comfort Sound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Slim Whitman
- Stompin' Tom Connors
- Tex Williams (2)
- Montana Slim
- Rex Dallas
- Bob King (5)
- Kevin Shegog
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