Carlene Carter

“Carlene Carter has one of those personalities that make it difficult to be somber when she’s in the room.” - Rolling Stone

The daughter of country music legends June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, and granddaughter of “Mother” Maybelle Carter of the original historic Carter Family, Carlene Carter has been performing since she was just seventeen. Nearly a century after The Carter Family’s first recordings changed the course of American music, that circle remains unbroken by Carlene Carter.

Working with producer Howie Epstein (of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), Carlene Carter became Nashville’s homecoming queen of 1990 when her album I Fell In Love topped the country singles and video charts, and the album was named one of the year’s 10 best by TIME, People, and Stereo Review. Award nominations followed for the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Vocalist, and Best Country Vocal Performance, Female (for the I Fell In Love album) at the 1991 Grammy Awards. Her dynamic personality made her a natural as VH1’s first country video hostess with her own daily hour, The Carlene Carter Show,and she had another smash hit single and video with “Every Little Thing,” from Little Love Letters, in 1993.

Between 1978 and the present, Carter has recorded twelve albums, primarily on major labels. In the same timespan, she has released more than twenty singles, including three No. 3-peaking hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Carlene Carter comes full circle with her new CD, Carter Girl, released April 8, 2014 on Rounder Records.

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