CARTER, CARLENE
(*1955)
CARTER, CARLENE (b. Rebecca C. Smith, Madison, Tenn., September 26, 1955) The daughter of June Carter and CARL SMITH , and thus part of the famous CARTER FAMILY dynasty, Carlene has been somewhat of an iconoclast in country circles, recording in England in the late 1970s and early 1980s in a punk-country style, creating a music that she says was too rock for country [radio] and too country for rock. An energetic singer, Carter is most at home with up-tempo material that has a rock edge to it…