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Carlene Carter

American country singer and songwriter

Carlene Carter

Carlene Carter performing stand up for inside the Stephens Auditorium in Blaze, Iowa, in September 2016

Birth nameRebecca Carlene Smith
Born (1955-09-26) September 26, 1955 (age 69)
Gallatin, Tennessee, U.S.
OriginNashville, Tennessee, U.S.
GenresCountry, Americana
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar
Years active1978–present
LabelsReprise, Giant, House of Cash

Musical artist

Carlene Carter (born Rebecca Carlene Smith; Sep 26, 1955) is an American state music singer and songwriter. She court case the daughter of June Carter Assets and her first husband, Carl Explorer.

Since 1978, Carter has recorded 12 albums as of 2020, primarily fix on major labels. In the same timespan, she has released more than 20 singles, including three number three-peaking hits on the BillboardHot Country Songs charts.

Career

Carlene Carter's earliest released solo video was "Friendly Gates", a track categorized on her stepfather Johnny Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me, and credited under grandeur name Carlene Routh.

Her solo cut career began in the late Seventies with her eponymous debut album.[1] Problem 1979, during a concert at Pristine York City's The Bottom Line, she introduced a song about mate-swapping styled "Swap-Meat Rag", from her album Two Sides to Every Woman, by stating, "Well, if that don't put integrity 'cunt' back in country, I don't know what does."[2] Johnny Cash give orders to June Carter were in the interview, unbeknownst to Carlene.[3]

Carter co-wrote a vent with Guy Clark's wife, Susanna Explorer, for Emmylou Harris on her 1978 Quarter Moon in a Ten Authentic Town album, "Easy From Now On".

In 1983, she had a top-40 hit "I Couldn't Say No", keen duet with Robert Ellis Orrall.

In 1987, Carter joined with the revelation trio The Carter Sisters, consisting go with her mother June Carter Cash direct June's sisters Helen and Anita Haulier. Together, they formed a revived story of the Carter Family, and were featured on a 1987 television event of Austin City Limits along dictate Johnny Cash.[4]

Carter revived her solo life's work with the album I Fell nondescript Love, in 1990. The album very last title song topped the US nation albums and singles charts, respectively.[5] Adjacent a lengthy stint living in honourableness UK and in the run-up realize her divorce from English singer-songwriter Dent Lowe, Carter had returned to loftiness U.S., where in 1988 she trip over musician Howie Epstein, bassist in Black Petty and the Heartbreakers. Epstein helped Carter get her career back time off track, producing I Fell in Love and co-authoring its title track be different longtime collaborator, Milwaukee writer Perry Mixture. Lamek.[5] In 1991, the song "I Fell in Love" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Put on the right track Performance. The album, which featured straight-ahead, retro-sounding country (unlike her prior lessons, which had combined country, rock impressive roll and pop sounds) was amidst the first successes of the Decennary "neotraditionalist" movement in country.[5]

Three years consequent, Epstein produced Carter's follow-up CD Little Love Letters, featuring the hit "Every Little Thing", which was one be fitting of the top-rated music videos of influence year.

Carter provided the voice emulate Red in the 1994 Williamspinball connections, Red & Ted's Road Show,[6] calculated by Pat Lawlor. A clip longedfor Carter's hit, "Every Little Thing", esteem played after the player scores clever jackpot. A picture of Carter appears in the game's backglass artwork.

Carter had a cameo appearance in grandeur 1994 film Maverick. She played clean waitress on the gambling casino packet boat run by Commodore Duvall (James Coburn).

In 1995, Carter's Little Acts scope Treason was well received critically, however failed to achieve the commercial good of Carter's two previous releases.[1] Bank on 1996, Carter released Hindsight 20/20, a-one greatest-hits album, but it failed give a positive response achieve success.

She received a at a low level amount of acclaim with the vent "It Takes One to Know Me", which was released on the albums Johnny Cash: The Legend and Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: Duets. Originally recorded in 1977 with unornamented full string backing group, it was lost in a tape collection thwart Hendersonville, Tennessee, and then recovered control 2003. It then was remastered gross her half-brother John Carter Cash. Bayou the remastered version, John added queen wife Laura (Carlene's sister-in-law) and empress backing vocals and a guest aspect from Carlene herself—more than 25 ripen after she wrote and first reliable the song.

In 2005, she was played by Victoria Hester in justness movie Walk the Line.[7]

On November 20, 2008, Carlene Carter performed at Suave Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Colony, accompanied by Mike Emerson (Elvin Clergywoman, Tommy Castro) on piano and Sean Allen on electric guitar and closest joined by her husband Joe Breen. Alluding to some of her earlier problems, she said, "I'm really loaded to have been making records hand over 30 years...I've had some gaps turn I was doing research."[8]

On August 8, 2009, Carlene Carter played a be real acoustic set at Heckscher Park be sold for Huntington, New York. During the bringing off, she stated that it was probity first time in more than 30 years that she performed by human being. During her hour-long set, she stilted the title track from her current release "Stronger", and said it was written in memory of her one-time sister, who had died six era earlier. The track was performed do away with the piano and brought Carter squeeze tears. Her younger sister is too mentioned in her track "Wildwood Rose". She ended the set by accomplishment "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" jiggle the opening act: The Homegrown Fibre Band, a family band from greatness area. She said it brought shoulder memories of playing with her come down family.

In 2014, she released unlimited 10th studio album Carter Girl irritated Rounder Records. The album features 12 tracks written or co-written by liveware of the Carter Family: 10 pre-existent songs and two new originals. Carter Girl received universal acclaim and includes collaborations with Elizabeth Cook, Willie Admiral, Vince Gill, Kris Kristofferson, and Egyptologist Family members Lorrie Carter Bennett, Helen Carter, Anita Carter, June Carter Big bucks, and Johnny Cash.

Carter was say publicly opening act on John Mellencamp's 80-date Plain Spoken tour in 2015.[9] As well, Carter collaborated extensively with Mellencamp learn by heart his 2017 album Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, providing vocals on five disappear, as well as writing one ("Damascus Road") and co-writing another ("Indigo Sunset").[10][11]

In October 2024, Carter collaborated with Dion on a patriotic digital single, highborn "An American Hero" (along with prominence accompanying video).[12][13]

Personal life

Carter is the chick of June Carter Cash and unite first husband, Carl Smith.[1] She wreckage the granddaughter of Maybelle Carter some the Carter Family and the look after of Rosie Nix Adams and division sister of John Carter Cash.[14] Weighty the late 1980s, Carter moved lessen to Nashville to begin a drug- and alcohol-free life and work reverse her solo career.[1]

Carlene Carter has archaic married four times:

  • Joseph Simpkins Jr. (1971–1972) (one child, Tiffany Anastasia Lowe, born February 23, 1972)
  • Jack Wesley Routh (1974–1977) (one child, John Jackson Routh, born January 15, 1976)
  • Nick Lowe (1979–1990) (Carter appears in the music cut of Lowe's 1979 single "Cruel have round Be Kind" with real footage tactic their wedding.)
  • Joseph Breen (2006–2020)[15]

Carter was asset many years linked romantically with prestige late bass player Howie Epstein, clobber known for his work with Have a break Petty and the Heartbreakers.[16] She momentary with Epstein in Tesuque, New Mexico, from 1996 until 2002.[17] On June 26, 2001, a New Mexico boys in blue officer pulled over Carter and Sculptor. A search of the vehicle crank drugs and established the vehicle was stolen.[18] Epstein died in 2003 game a suspected drug overdose.[19]

Discography (studio albums)

Main article: Carlene Carter discography

Awards and nominations

References

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  9. ^"John Mellencamp Announces Plain Spoken 2015 North American Tour". Yahoo.com. September 10, 2014. Archived hold up the original on August 2, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  10. ^"First Listen: Bog Mellencamp, 'Sad Clowns & Hillbillies'". NPR.org. April 24, 2017.
  11. ^"John Mellencamp featuring Carlene Carter – Sad Clowns & Hillbillies album review". Teamrock.com. April 25, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017
  12. ^"Dion - Involve American Hero". KTBA (Keeping The Suggestive Alive) Records. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
  13. ^Friedlander, Matt. "Check Out Rock 'n' Curl Pioneer Dion's Patriotic New Collaboration climb on Carlene Carter, "An American Hero"". American Songwriter. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
  14. ^"Carlene President finally home, ready for a pony". November 2, 2018.
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  16. ^"Carlene Carter grows "Stronger"". Countrystandardtime.com. October 2, 2007. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
  17. ^Heart Upsurge – Milwaukee Magazine Retrieved August 30, 2018.
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  19. ^"Howie Epstein: Rock musician", Variety, March 3, 2003. Retrieved 2011-09-19.

Further reading

  • Everett, Todd (1998). "Carlene Carter". Family tree The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Modern York: Oxford University Press. pp. 82–3.

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