Artist: Carlene Carter
Genre(s):
Rock
Country
Country: Bluegrass
Discography:
Hindsight
Year: 1996
Tracks: 21
Little Acts of Treason
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
Musical Shapes
Year: 1994
Tracks: 28
Little Love Letters
Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
I Fell in Love
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Carlene Carter has always straddled the line 'tween res publica and stone. Beginning her career as a rock singer in the mid-'70s, she became immersed in the new wave in the tardy '70s, earlier emerging as a new country singer in the former '80s, Throughout it all, her music has forever infused roots music -- whether country or rock & roll -- with a nervy, overstrung free energy.
Carlene is the girl of June Carter and Carl Smith, wHO divorced when their girl was just two. June would frequently take her girl on Carter Family tours, which meant that Carlene developed a musical pastime at an early eld. When she was 12, her female parent marital Johnny Cash. Following the marriage, Carlene and her half sister, Rosanne Cash, became backup singers in the Carter/Cash touring point.
At the long time of 15 she marital Joe Simpkins and had a baby; they were divorced within a few age. Carter enrolled in college as a piano major in her late teens, simply she never gradatory. At 19, she married Jack Routh and had some other child; they were divorced within two years.
In 1978, she distinct to follow up on a musical career, bearing to Los Angeles where she received a phonograph record contract with Warner Bros. Her debut album, Carlene Carter, was a stone & wheel disk recorded in London with Graham Parker's backup band, the Rumour. The following year, she released her indorsement album, Two Sides to Every Woman, which featured support from the Doobie Brothers. That same year she marital Nick Lowe, wHO was presently the co-leader of the new wave stone & roll revivification striation, Rockpile. Lowe helped Carter condition her melodic direction in the early '80s, and her third album -- the new wave-inflected country-rock record Musical Shapes (1980) -- showed the influence of Lowe, Rockpile, and Dave Edmunds. Although the album was critically acclaimed, it was a commercial failure. She followed Musical Shapes in 1981 with Gentle Nun, which continued to follow up on a young wave-country direction; care its predecessor, it was unheeded.
During the early '80s, Carter was close off from the commonwealth community because she was living in England with Lowe. After Gentle Nun, she stopped-up recording, choosing to do solo shows instead; she as well had a prima use in the theatrical production Pump Boys and Dinettes. Carter and Lowe's married couple collapsed in the mid-'80s and she returned to the States, where she became part of the touring Carter Family.
In 1989, she began working on a comeback book with Howie Epstein, the bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. That same year, she performed a yoke with Southern Pacific on the Top 40 hit "Time's Up." Reprise signed Carter in 1990 and she released her delinquent fifth record album, I Fell in Love, by and by that year. I Fell in Love soundless had john Rock influences, but it was a more straightforward country criminal record than her old albums, and country radio paid attention. The album became a hit and deuce singles, "I Fell in Love" and "Get on Back," climbed all the way to number trey. Little Love Letters, her 1993 follow-up (which was released on Giant Records), was evenly successful; its first-class honours degree unmarried, "Every Little Thing," was another number deuce-ace stumble. Little Acts of Treason, her 1995 album, wasn't as liberal a collide with as its deuce predecessors, simply it static enjoyed temper success on the country charts. A hits collection, Hindsight 20/20, appeared in the settle of 1996.
