Legacy
Maybelle Carter was inducted as part of The Carter Family in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970.
In 1993, her image appeared on a U.S. postage stamp honoring the Carter Family. In 2001 she was initiated into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. She would rank No. 8 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002. In 2005, she was portrayed by Sandra Ellis Lafferty in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.
She was the subject of her granddaughter Carlene Carter's 1990 song "Me and the Wildwood Rose".
Her death was the subject of Johnny Cash's song "Tears in the Holston River".
In 2010, Lipscomb University in Nashville named the stage in Collins Alumni Auditorium after her.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)