In 1930, Carpenter was working in
Winston-Salem,
Forsyth County, North Carolina, as a musician in an orchestra. "Crazy Water Barn Dance" show band in
Charlotte, North Carolina. He had his greatest musical success in the mid-1930s working at
WPTF radio station in
Raleigh, North Carolina, touring with the "Grandfather of Bluegrass,
Wade Mainer and his Sons of the Mountaineers band and
Bill Monroe's Monroe Brothers, The William Leonard Eury Appalachian Collection at
Appalachian State University in
Boone, North Carolina, preserves a photograph of Carpenter with his guitar and "The 'Hill Billy' from Alleghany County" guitar case found in a book titled
Boyden Carpenter: The Old Gospel Singer. ==References==