The trio recorded six songs at the Bristol session and were called up to Victor's Camden studios (where Rodgers also recorded) for a second session, where they recorded one of the most influential records in country music history, a Civil War-era song adapted by A.P., "Wildwood Rose," featuring Sara's haunting vocal and Maybelle's finger picking style - the "Carter lick" - which became the very foundation of country rhythm guitar playing.

The song reached No. 3 on the pop charts in '28 (there was no country chart until '44) and sold over one million copies (check out Mike Ness' rocking but faithful rendition).

Peer increasingly turned his attention to his hugely successful publishing business after '32, but left behind an amazing legacy of recorded roots music that transformed the industry and preserved authentic American culture for fun and profit.