Carrie B. Grover

Carrie Blanche Grover (née Spinney; 1879–1959) was a Canadian folk singer, fiddler, and folk song collector. She was a recognized authority on folk music, whose songs were recorded for the Library of Congress by both Alan Lomax and Sidney Robertson Cowell. She was the daughter of George Craft Spinney and Eliza Long. The Librarian of Congress reported: "Mrs. Grover sat before the microphone and recorded twenty-six discs. Some of her ballads date back a hundred years or more." Recordings of Grover also formed part of the Eloise Hubbard Linscott collection. She was the only woman among the several New England fiddlers included, Linscott wrote admiringly that "what she didn't sing she played on her fiddle from a repertoire of more than 400 songs”.

In 1953, Grover gathered around 140 songs for self-publication. "Because she feels so strongly that the old songs should not be allowed to die," Hill wrote, "Mrs. Grover has made heroic efforts to preserve the tunes. There are many collections of the verses but not many which include a tune for every poem.