A conversation with country music veteran Carlene Carter sounds a great deal like her songs. She's honest, reflective and without pretension. The daughter of June Carter Cash and country music pioneer Carl Smith, as well as granddaughter of the great Maybelle Carter and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash, has carried on the Carter family music tradition with her sterling brand of real-deal country since she went solo in the late '70s...
Only Webb Pierce, Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow had more success on the Billboard country chart in the 1950s than Mr. Smith, who had 58 consecutive Top 40 hits on that chart from 1951 to 1965. The first 21 of these, including the No. 1 singles “Hey Joe!,” “Loose Talk” and “Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way,” reached the Top 10...
Master honky-tonk stylist Carl Smith, the dashing “Country Gentleman” who was among the most successful Nashville-based artists of the 1950s, died Saturday, Jan. 16 at his home in Franklin...
Two singers with ties to the “Man in Black” will be headlining the third annual Johnny Cash Flower Pickin’ Festival. Grammy-nominated Carlene Carter, daughter of Cash’s wife and companion June Carter Cash, and Justin Townes Earle, son of country and folk singer and long-time Cash friend Steve Earle, will be the headlining performers for this year’s festival, which is set for Oct. 16 to 18...
Carter, who died in 1978 at age 69, would have turned 100 on May 10. In addition to all three of her daughters, several of Maybelle’s grandchildren also have made impacts on music, most notably Carlene Carter and John Carter Cash.
"I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe," Carlene Carter declared toward the end of the hour. Some would say she's succeeded and on her own terms...
Singer and songwriter Carlene Carter, a prodigy child of Country music royalty, will open for classic Country singing treasure Mark Chesnutt in an 8 p.m. concert on Friday, June 19, during the 2009 edition of the Shasta District Fair...
Speaking of family, here is a rarity: Two heirs to the Carter Family name, cousins Dale Jett and Carlene Carter, together on stage, singing the finale song "Keep on the Sunny Side," made famous by A.P., Sara and Maybelle, the Carter Family.
Carlene Carter, standard bearer of the first family of country music, The Carter Family, will make her first appearance at the SXSW Music Conference with a panel on songwriting and a live Direct TV performance the whole country can enjoy...
Carlene Carter brought country warmth Friday to Littleton, playing traditional standards, cuts from her new CD, "Stronger," and sharing the legacy of her mother, June Carter, her step-father, Johnny Cash, as well as her father, country pioneer Carl Smith...
Carlene Carter, 53, admitted on Saturday that she's high-mileage. She has veered across some bumpy roads, churning through three husbands (No. 4 is a keeper, she insists) and a lifetime of potholes. But Carlene has great DNA, which appears to be her salvation. On Saturday in Chatham, the one-time country pinup girl channeled her late mom, June Carter Cash, and late grandmother, Maybelle Carter, in an emotional concert before an intimate gathering at the Sanctuary series...
This is the way Carlene Carter figures it: Her crazy-quilt of a life, which has included giving birth to a daughter at age 16, two teen marriages, stints in jail, a drug addiction that dogged her on and off for decades, and a hard-earned reputation as The First Family of Country Music's resident rebel, is rich songwriting material...
The granddaughter of Maybelle Carter, daughter of June Carter and Carl Smith and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash, she comes from a rich country music family and legacy. The Tennessee native is currently in the planning stages for a forthcoming mini-series about Maybelle Carter, and she also hopes to collaborate with John McFee on a tribute CD to her father Carl Smith...
Despite releasing one of 2008’s seminal albums, Stronger, the heiress to the Carter-Cash legacy (she’s the daughter of June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, and the step-daughter of Johnny) has elected to forgo the trappings of Nashville for her Santa Barbara County home...
She grew up the child of country music royalty, performed often with her mother and stepfather, June Carter and Johnny Cash, and built her own successful career over 30 years as a solo artist...
This country has produced few musical clans as talented as the Carter-Cashes, and the tools of the family trade have clearly been passed down to Carlene. Carter's voice, much like the singer/songwriter herself, seems simultaneously fragile and robust. At 53, despite all her years of wild living, Carter can still go from a growl to a breathtaking alto in mid-lyric. And the melodies she crafts can make even songs with the saddest subject matter sound uplifting...
It's not easy for Carlene Carter to visit the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. For her, it's full of ghosts. "I get very emotional when I go into that building," the singer admits, "especially when I go into that room where all the plaques are. I get overwhelmed when I realize how important they were to everyone else, because when I was growing up they were just Grandma, Mom, John and Daddy. I have such pride in my heritage and such fond memories, but now most of them are gone..."
As the daughter of honky-tonk legend Carl Smith and June Carter--and the step-daughter of Johnny Cash--Carlene Carter was born into country music royalty. Sidetracked by personal demons and losses, she's back and still carrying on the family tradition...
"Stronger," her first new album in a decade, touches everyone who hears it. Carter's emotional tribute to the mother, sister and stepfather she lost in 2003 reveals the personal strengths that allow her to face the future with joy...
Carlene Carter, Stronger (Yep Roc). After bottoming out on drugs and alcohol, the daughter of June Carter Cash and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash is back with her first album in 13 years, and it exudes the vivacious intelligence and charm of her popular early-'90s work...
The amazingly resolute Carter became well known for her feisty attitude and a string of rock and rockabilly-styled hits in the 1980s and early '90s, which helped her carry on a family musical tradition that dates back nearly a century...
"As we get older and learn from our mistakes, or learn from our lessons, or learn from whatever we get stronger if we're smart. And I'm a genius, so there you have it!" After that statement, the laughter rang out over the phone line between California and Maine as country/rock singer-songwriter Carlene Carter called to chat about her new album, "Stronger"...
With the exception of the opening track, "The Bitter End," every song on Carlene Carter's latest CD, "Stronger," was written by Carter alone. Although this seems like a departure from her past records, Carter hinted that wasn't exactly the case. "Here's a secret I'll probably get in trouble for saying..."
Carlene Carter said "It Takes One To Know Me" was one of the most emotional songs to record on her new CD. She wrote it as a birthday gift to her stepfather, Johnny Cash, when she was 18. "I thought, 'What do you give Johnny Cash as a birthday gift?'" she said...
"I write songs that matter to me, and that's what it's all about," says Carlene Carter. Her new album, "Stronger," is earning rave reviews...