Carter, and their sister-in-law Maybelle Carter—often cited as "the most influential group in country music history":[2] (For recordings by the second generation of the Carter Family see The Carter Sisters.)

The Carter Family's career predated any sort of best-selling chart of country music records.

(Billboard did not have a country best sellers chart until 1944.)

Below is a select list of their 78 rpm releases.

Most of the full-length LPs issued under "the Carter Family" were budget albums as was traditional on most vintage recordings.