resumed in 1934, now for the Victor label. Between 1923 and 1931, Carson recorded almost 150 songs, mostly together with the "Virginia Reelers" or his daughter Rosa Lee Carson, who performed with him as "Moonshine Kate".Malone, McCulloh 1975, p. 19. Carson's final recordings were done in Camden, New Jersey for the Bluebird Record Label. In 1935, Carson made a trip to Hollywood as movie producers were eyeing him as their next big movie star. Along with Rosa Lee, he was to appear in a film called “The Mountain Stillers”, though this never came to pass. He wrote more than 150 songs in his life, but only nine were ever copyrighted. Because Carson couldn't read sheet music, he had his songs transferred to standard notation by the stepdaughter of preacher Andrew Jenkins, Irene Spain. Carson was involved in several copyright issues with both Okeh Records and other musicians during his active career. In his later years, he worked for the local government as an elevator operator in Atlanta, a job he had obtained through his friendship with governor Herman Talmadge.Russell 2007, p. 7. He died in 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia, holding his fiddle in his arms, and is buried in Sylvester Cemetery in the East Atlanta neighborhood of Atlanta, where surviving friends and family play music at his grave each year around the anniversary of his birth. Views on race and evolution Carson made a pun relating to the KKK in "There Ain't no bugs on me ("The night was dark and driz'ly an' the air was full of sleet/m' ol' man join'd the Klu Klux an' ma she lost 'er sheet"), and was a regular at Ku Klux Klan rallies. His "Ballad of Little Mary Phagan" helped to exacerbate the anti-semitism that was a major factor in the lynching of Mary's accused murderer, Leo Frank. Carson made light of the evolution controversy in "There Ain't No Bugs on Me" when he said: "monkeys swing by the end o' thar tail an' jump from tree to tree thar may be monkey in some o' you guys, but thar ain't no monkey in me". See also Footnotes References Daniel, Wayne W. (2001) Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia, University of Illinois Press Goodson, Steve (2007) Highbrows, Hillbillies and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880–1930, University of Georgia Press Malone, Bill C. - McCulloh, Judith (1975) Stars of