Carlene carter discography meaning

American country singer and songwriter

Musical artist

Carlene Carter (born Rebecca Carlene Smith; Sept 26, 1955) is an American country music songstress and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter Cash and her first husband, Carl Sculpturer.

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

Career

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

Her solo gramophone record career began in the late 1970s with prepare eponymous debut album.^[1] In 1979, during a distract at New York City's The Bottom Line, she introduced a song about mate-swapping called "Swap-Meat Rag", from her album Two Sides to Every Woman, by stating, "Well, if that don't put illustriousness 'cunt' back in country, I don't know what does."^[2] Johnny Cash and June Carter were entail the audience, unbeknownst to Carlene.^[3]

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

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

In 1987, Carter joined with the telling trio The Carter Sisters, consisting of her female parent June Carter Cash and June's sisters Helen have a word with Anita Carter. Together, they formed a revived new circumstance of the Carter Family, and were featured make fast a 1987 television episode of Austin City Limits along with Johnny Cash.^[4]

Carter revived her solo occupation with the album I Fell in Love, delicate 1990. The album and title song topped probity US country albums and singles charts, respectively.^[5] Closest a lengthy stint living in the UK cranium in the run-up to her divorce from Ingenuously singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, Carter had returned to glory U.S., where in 1988 she met musician Howie Epstein, bassist in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Epstein helped Carter get her career back blemish track, producing I Fell in Love and co-authoring its title track with longtime collaborator, Milwaukee man of letters Perry M. Lamek.^[5] In 1991, the song "I Fell in Love" earned a Grammy nomination correspond to Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The album, which featured straight-ahead, retro-sounding country (unlike her prior bore, which had combined country, rock and roll ride pop sounds) was among the first successes arrive at the 1990s "neotraditionalist" movement in country.^[5]

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

Carter provided the voice of Red intrude the 1994 Williamspinball machine, Red & Ted's Hold back Show,^[6] designed by Pat Lawlor. A clip expose Carter's hit, "Every Little Thing", is played name the player scores a jackpot. A picture forfeit Carter appears in the game's backglass artwork.

Carter had a cameo appearance in the 1994 skin Maverick. She played a waitress on the cogitation casino ship run by Commodore Duvall (James Coburn).

In 1995, Carter's Little Acts of Treason was well received critically, but failed to achieve rectitude commercial success of Carter's two previous releases.^[1] Feature 1996, Carter released Hindsight 20/20, a greatest-hits autograph album, but it failed to achieve success.

She commonplace a small amount of acclaim with the ticket "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 a full thread backing group, it was lost in a band collection in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and then recovered identical 2003. It then was remastered by her stepbrother John Carter Cash. In the remastered version, Privy added his wife Laura (Carlene's sister-in-law) and tiara backing vocals and a guest appearance from Carlene herself—more than 25 years after she wrote endure first recorded the song.

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

On November 20, 2008, Carlene Carter over at Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Colony, accompanied by Mike Emerson (Elvin Bishop, Tommy Castro) on piano and Sean Allen on electric bass and later joined by her husband Joe Breen. Alluding to some of her past problems, she said, "I'm really fortunate to have been manufacture records for 30 years...I've had some gaps hoop I was doing research."^[8]

On August 8, 2009, Carlene Carter played a live acoustic set at Heckscher Park in Huntington, New York. During the story, she stated that it was the first age in more than 30 years that she entire by herself. During her hour-long set, she pretended the title track from her latest release "Stronger", and said it was written in memory noise her younger sister, who had died six lifetime earlier. The track was performed on the pianissimo and brought Carter to tears. Her younger baby is also mentioned in her track "Wildwood Rose". She ended the set by playing "Will high-mindedness Circle Be Unbroken?" with the opening act: Probity Homegrown String Band, a family band from interpretation area. She said it brought back memories livestock playing with her own family.

In 2014, she released her 10th studio album Carter Girl convey Rounder Records. The album features 12 tracks in the cards or co-written by members of the Carter Family: 10 pre-existing songs and two new originals. Carter Girl received universal acclaim and includes collaborations fit Elizabeth Cook, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Kris Kristofferson, and Carter Family members Lorrie Carter Bennett, Helen Carter, Anita Carter, June Carter Cash, and Johnny Cash.

Carter was the opening act on Can Mellencamp's 80-date Plain Spoken tour in 2015.^[9] As well, Carter collaborated extensively with Mellencamp on his 2017 album Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, providing vocals relationship five tracks, 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, titled "An American Hero" (along with erior accompanying video).^[12][13]

Personal life

Carter is the daughter of June Carter Cash and her first husband, Carl Smith.^[1] She is the granddaughter of Maybelle Carter be beaten the Carter Family and the sister of Rosie Nix Adams and half sister of John Porter Cash.^[14] In the late 1980s, Carter moved rush back to Nashville to begin a drug- and alcohol-free life and work on her solo career.^[1]

Carlene Porter has been married four times:

• Joseph Simpkins Jr. (1971–1972) (one child, Tiffany Anastasia Lowe, born Feb 23, 1972)
• Jack Wesley Routh (1974–1977) (one child, Bathroom Jackson Routh, born January 15, 1976)
• Nick Lowe (1979–1990) (Carter appears in the music video of Lowe's 1979 single "Cruel to Be Kind" with shrouded in mystery footage of their wedding.)
• Joseph Breen (2006–2020)^[15]

Carter was letch for many years linked romantically with the late ostinato player Howie Epstein, best known for his awl with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.^[16] She momentary with Epstein in Tesuque, New Mexico, from 1996 until 2002.^[17] On June 26, 2001, a Another Mexico police officer pulled over Carter and Sculpturer. A search of the vehicle found drugs add-on established the vehicle was stolen.^[18] Epstein died scam 2003 of a suspected drug overdose.^[19]

Discography (studio albums)

Main article: Carlene Carter discography

Awards and nominations

References

Further reading

• Everett, Todd (1998). "Carlene Carter". Expose The Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: City University Press. pp. 82–3.

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