A.L.Phipps family - I've got a record of theirs I picked up in a sale a few years ago for 50p.

Sounds great - like the Carters, but a family resemblance rather than a slavish imitation. In fact I liked it so much I went back and bought a second copy just in case.

It's all Carter family songs ("Most Requested Sacred Songs of the Carter Family, Played and Sung in the Old Original Carter Family Style by the A.L.Phipps Family"), which is fine - but it'd be interesting to have a look and a listen to some of their own. According to the record sleeve A.L. Phipps and his wife Kathleen both wrote songs, and made lots of appearances with the Carters up to 1954.