January 2020. Had an amazing time this trip on Outlaw Cruise but this one was taken at Cinnamon Hill Jamaica yesterday. So so happy!!! Sang Carter Family songs and Kris and I sang Circle Be Unbroken to each other on the couch in the living room where Momma and Big John always gathered to play music with family and friends! Man am I a lucky woman!!!
May 3, 2017. With John Mellencamp on The Today Show performing "Grandview" and "Indigo Sunset" from the Sad Clowns & Hillbillies album.
Carlene Carter and John Mellencamp. Photo by Marc Hauser.
July 13, 2016. Carlene at the Grand Ole Opry with son Jackson and daughter Tiffany.
November 2014. Carlene with Billy Burke in Ghost Brothers of Darkland County musical written by Stephen King and John Mellencamp.
August 31, 2014. Yarmouth, MA. I feel much better now! Knowing I'm a country legend in Cape Cod! Tonight we'll be having a great time playing at Cape Cod Cultural Center in Yarmouth!! Me and Joey gonna sing our hearts out! Come see!!! Xoxox
August 3, 2014. The two mayors of Bristol VA/TN declare Carlene Carter Day!
June 13, 2014. Washington, D.C. Carlene and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley at the National Museum of American History for “Raise It Up! Anthem for America,” a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner.
April 7, 2014. Country Music Hall of Fame. Nashville, TN. An Intimate Evening with Eddie Stubbs on WSM Radio. Daughter Tiffany, brother Dean and sister Lori Lynn Smith, Eddie Stubbs, CC, husband Joe Breen.
Son Jackson, daughter Tiffany, father Carl Smith, and grandkids.
September 27, 2005. The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, TN. Carlene and her dad Carl Smith after "An Evening with Carlene Carter."
July 2005. Nashville, TN. Carlene doing one of her mom's comedy routines in "Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter Story."
July 2005. Carlene and Victoria Hester, who played her in the movie "Walk The Line," backstage at "Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter Story."
July 2005. Cast of "Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter Story," Carlene Carter (left) as her mom, June Carter. Lorrie Davis Bennett (back center) as her mom, Anita Carter. Janet McMahan (right) as Helen Carter. Gina Stewart (front) as Mother Maybelle Carter.
August 9, 1996. Douglas County Fair, Nebraska. Carlene, Lorrie Morgan, and Pam Tillis on the Kraft Country Tour - the first all-female country tour!
Carlene and Shania Twain at the Canadian Country Music Awards.
Carlene with Mel Gibson on the set of the 1994 film "Maverick."
Carlene and Aaron Tippin at the 1993 CMA Awards. Presenting Best Music Video to Alan Jackson, Chattahoochee.
Photo by Mark Pyle, brother of Carlene's guitarist Michael Pyle (pictured) who wrote: "We were opening for George Strait at the old Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. Johnny and June walked out on stage unannounced to sing a song with us and I vividly remember the blinding light of ten thousand flashbulbs going off all at once."
Photo courtesy of Jim Hagans.
November 19, 1990. Nashville Now show, TNN. Photographer Jim Hagans found this shot he took of Carlene and her dad Carl Smith, and we thank him very much for sharing it with us!
February 19, 1990. Carlene and Howie Epstein backstage at a Tom Petty concert at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
The Carter Family Wildwood Flower album, 1987. Clockwise from top left: Anita, Helen, June, Carlene.
The cast of "Pump Boys And Dinettes."
Carlene as Prudie in the musical "Pump Boys And Dinettes" on the West End stage in London, mid 1980s.
Carlene and her friend Kathy Valentine (of the Go-Go's) mid 1980s: "Here we are back in the day! Right around the time we wrote 'I'm the Only One.' One of the best friends in my life:-) I love Kathy!"
February 1981. Photo courtesy of Phil Fewsmith.
Nick Lowe and Carlene.
Copyright Barry Schultz, Sunshine Rockin' Art. Photographed in the garden of a Los Angeles home in 1978.
Photo copyright Barry Schultz, Sunshine Rockin' Art.
Promo photo for first album, 1978.
Carlene, daughter Tiffany, grandma Maybelle Carter.
Carlene's wedding to first husband Joe Simpkins.
Thank you to Carlene's cousin Lorrie Carter Bennett for the details on this picture. L to R standing: Cindy Cash, Rosey Nix, Me (Lorrie), Aunt June, Kathy Cash, Rosanne Cash, Uncle John. Seated: Carlene Carter, Tara Cash in her lap. We celebrated Cindy and Rosey's birthdays that day in July 1968.
"Somewhere between 3rd and 4th position or maybe it was 5th ballerina Carlene age 10."
Carlene's 6th Grade Band photo, can you spot her?!
Carlene with mom June and sister Rosey.
Carlene, grandma Maybelle, and mom June.