Carlene Carter Fan Club: Home
Welcome to the Fan Club website of singer/songwriter Carlene Carter. With her acclaimed 2008 CD "Stronger" on Yep Roc Records, she came back with her first new music since 1995!
See the Fan Club Buy page to get a copy of the very special 2006 pre-release version of "Stronger," available through the Fan Club only, plus high-res photo downloads and more!
Carlene also has a new official website of her own at CarleneCarter.us, where you can join her email list and keep up-to-date on all of her latest news.
As the daughter of legendary and beloved June Carter Cash and Country Music Hall of Famer Carl Smith, Carlene is heir to one of the richest musical legacies of all time. Carlene's grandmother, Maybelle Carter, helped to lay the foundation
for American country music through pioneering recordings in the late 1920s with the original Carter Family (Maybelle, her cousin Sara, and Sara's husband A.P. Carter). Maybelle also introduced to the world a revolutionary guitar style known as "the Carter Scratch" (making the guitar a lead instrument by playing rhythm and melody at the same time).
In the 1940s, Maybelle branched off with the second generation of her musical family tree, as she and her daughters Helen, June, and Anita performed as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. June's marriage in the 1960s to country music icon Johnny Cash helped to keep the Carter Family on the road, and in the hearts of music fans around the world. But it was June's daughter Carlene who took the Carter sound and name in another direction, to yet another generation, as she mixed the traditional music of her heritage with the current rock & roll of the late 1970s. Carlene's biggest success came with her Grammy-nominated country hit "I Fell In Love" album and single in 1990, and the innovative "Every Little Thing" video and single from her "Little Love Letters" CD in 1993.
Carlene has now carried the Carter name well into the new millennium with her aptly-titled "Stronger" CD, which inspired praise from peers like Elvis Costello: "I couldn't let a day go by without writing a note about C.C.'s record. It is astounding." And legendary lyricist Bernie Taupin: "A staggering achievement by one of the great voices and fearless hearts of country rock." USA Today said simply: "It's great to hear her again." With "Stronger," critics and fans around the world fell in love again with this talented maverick artist with the legendary genes.
Please see the website menu (above center) for detailed history and photos from Carlene's colorful life and acclaimed music career, now in its fourth decade of carrying on her family traditions, and blazing her own trails at the same time...
And thank you for visiting the Carlene Carter Fan Club website!
Below is a video clip of Carlene's performance at the Nashville Flood Relief Benefit concert at The Echo in Los Angeles, CA on June 24, 2010.