Editing Dave Carter (section)

{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Dave Carter
| image             = DaveCarter-smaller.jpg
| caption           = 
| birth_name        = David Robert Carter
| alias             = 
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1952|8|13}}
| birth_place       = [[Oxnard, California]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2002|7|19|1952|8|3}}
| death_place       = [[Hadley, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| origin            = 
| instrument        = {{Ubl
 | Vocals
 | Guitar
 | Banjo
 | Piano
 }}
| genre             = [[Folk music|Folk]]
| occupation        = Singer-songwriter
| years_active      = 1995–2002
| label             = [[Signature Sounds]]
| associated_acts   = [[Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer]]<br />[[Tracy Grammer]]<br />[[Blue Cliff Ensemble]]
}}
'''Dave Carter''' (August 13, 1952{{Snd}} July 19, 2002) was an American [[folk music]] singer-songwriter who described his style as "[[post-modern]] mythic American folk music".<ref name="ITP-2002">{{cite web |url=http://www.itp.edu/currents/articles/alanlomax.php |title=Baby, I Just Died: The Passing of Alan Lomax |first1=Joyce |last1=Marcel |date=2002 |accessdate=October 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025002945/http://itp.edu/currents/articles/alanlomax.php |archive-date=October 25, 2011 }}</ref> He was one half of the duo [[Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer]], who were heralded as the new "voice of modern folk music" in the months before Carter's unexpected death in July 2002.<ref name="Alarik-2003">{{cite book |last1=Alarik |first1=Scott |title=Deep community : adventures in the modern folk underground |date=2003 |publisher=Black Wolf Press |isbn=9780972027014 |pages=196–197}}{{Snd}} reprinting "New songs from old places: Dave Carter, Tracy Grammer, and Joan Baez," ''Boston Globe'', September 9, 2001.</ref> They were ranked as number one on the year-end list for "Top Artists" on the ''Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart'' for 2001 and 2002, and their popularity has endured in the years following Carter's death.<ref name ="FDJ-L">{{Cite web |url=http://folkradio.org/summaries.html |title=Annual Folk Airplay Summaries |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701231233/http://folkradio.org/summaries.html |archive-date=July 1, 2007 |first1=Richard |last1=Gillmann }}</ref> [[Joan Baez]], who went on tour with the duo in 2002, spoke of Carter's songs in the same terms that she once used to promote a young [[Bob Dylan]]:
<blockquote>"There is a special gift for writing songs that are available to other people, and Dave's songs are very available to me.  It's a kind of genius, you know, and Dylan has the biggest case of it.  But I hear it in Dave's songs, too.<ref name="Alarik-2003" /></blockquote>
Carter's songs were often noted for their poetic imagery, spirituality and storytelling while retaining connection to the country music of his southern American upbringing.  Carter's memory has been kept alive by his many admirers, most notably his former partner. [[Tracy Grammer]] has continued to introduce previously unrecorded songs and recordings that the duo were working on prior to Carter's death.