Carlene Carter

Genres:	Country & Bluegrass • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • Westerns
Descriptive "tags":	country • female vocalists • female country • alt-country • country and western
Decades Active:	1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Artist Compilations:	Southern Pacific & Carlene Carter
Links online:	Fan Page • IMDb • MySpace • Wikipedia

Biography

Rebecca Carlene Smith, 26 September 1955, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Carter is the daughter of country singers Carl Smith and June Carter and the granddaughter of Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family. She learnt piano at six years of age and guitar at 10, having lessons from Carl Perkins. Her parents divorced and, when she was 12, her mother married Johnny Cash. Carlene Carter herself first married when 16, and had a daughter Tiffany, but she and Joe Simpkins were divorced within two years. After college she joined her mother and stepfather on the road and was featured on Johnny Cash’s family album The Junkie And The Juicehead Minus Me in 1974. Carlene then met Jack Routh, a writer for Cash’s publishing company, and within three months they were married. They had a son, John Jackson Routh, but they separated in 1977. Carter brought her new boyfriend, Rodney Crowell, to the UK where she made an appealing, upbeat rock album with Graham Parker And The...

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