Hi Everyone- We wanted to let you know that the upcoming Los Angeles appearance by Carlene Carter and a special All Star Band at The Mint on April 25th- is now standing room only! Get your tickets now before you miss this opportunity to see Carlene in this intimate setting with her All Star Band for the evening consisting of Guy Allison ( Moody Blues, Doobie Brothers) and John McFee ( Doobie Brothers, Southern Pacific) and few other special surprise guests!
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This is by far going to be an evening you won't forget! See you there!

With her once ash blond hair now auburn, progressive country’s crown princess Carlene Carter is the spitting image of her mother June Carter Cash. Heads turn when Maybelle Carter’s granddaughter walks into the Sunset Grill, a Music City watering hole frequented by the celebrities, who scarcely earn more than a passing flicker from fellow diners. In part because of her beauty, in part because of her notoriety for living outside the lines, in part because of a pedigree that also includes father Carl Smith, stepfather Johnny Cash and a mother who co-wrote "Ring of Fire," people take notice.

Carlene, a wild child of the ’70s L.A. country-rock and U.K. punk scenes, has emerged from a life that scanned far wilder than any country song. But in her own prolonged addiction and the 2003 deaths of paramour Howie Epstein, her mother, stepfather and sister Rosie, she found the strength to return to writing and created "Stronger," a song cycle coming out Tuesday that documents the pain, loss and courage it took to regain control of her life.

"In some ways, [writing] was the hardest part ’cause I lived it," says Carter. Her eyes flash with that spark that marked her irrepressibility three decades ago, when she was a country siren living on the fringe of British punk with then-husband Nick Lowe.

- Holly Gleason, LA Times

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Carlene Carter Celebrates Survival
She Is Stronger in a Personal and Musical Return

This is why you should care about Carlene Carter: She puts her whole life into her music in a way few artists dare or accomplish. Not just snippets of a diary. I mean her life experience, her guts and her whole psyche. It goes in there. It’s not always a pretty recipe. But the results are often gems of music.

Her work continues to illuminate the peculiar strength -- and the weakness -- of the whole Cash-Carter legacy, which is a musical edifice that is going to endure for a long, long time. And Carter’s latest album, Stronger, coming some 13 years since her last studio effort, amply demonstrates that. It reflects the toll taken on her by wrong roads taken and unavoidable tragedies. In Carlene’s case, she’s had career triumphs and backslides, three marriages and numerous personal losses.

A her stepfather Johnny Cash once famously said, "Drugs run through this family like crap through a goose." And Carlene was no exception. She experienced a harrowing heroin bust when she took the fall for her late amour, Howie Epstein of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and she’s had her own years of heroin addiction and alcohol abuse. Fortunately for her, she came out of it all with tales to tell of falling and getting back up again.

Me-centered music lives and dies by the strength of its compositions. Strong songs celebrate the worth of their creator. Lesser works invite attack, ridicule or -- worse -- no attention at all. From the Carter Family on to Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Carlene Carter and others, they have risen and fallen on the strengths and frailties of their own labors.

- Chet Flippo, CMT.com Editorial Director

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Carlene Carter Celebrates Survival
She Is Stronger in a Personal and Musical Return

This is why you should care about Carlene Carter: She puts her whole life into her music in a way few artists dare or accomplish. Not just snippets of a diary. I mean her life experience, her guts and her whole psyche. It goes in there. It’s not always a pretty recipe. But the results are often gems of music.

Her work continues to illuminate the peculiar strength -- and the weakness -- of the whole Cash-Carter legacy, which is a musical edifice that is going to endure for a long, long time. And Carter’s latest album, Stronger, coming some 13 years since her last studio effort, amply demonstrates that. It reflects the toll taken on her by wrong roads taken and unavoidable tragedies. In Carlene’s case, she’s had career triumphs and backslides, three marriages and numerous personal losses.

A her stepfather Johnny Cash once famously said, "Drugs run through this family like crap through a goose." And Carlene was no exception. She experienced a harrowing heroin bust when she took the fall for her late amour, Howie Epstein of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and she’s had her own years of heroin addiction and alcohol abuse. Fortunately for her, she came out of it all with tales to tell of falling and getting back up again.

Me-centered music lives and dies by the strength of its compositions. Strong songs celebrate the worth of their creator. Lesser works invite attack, ridicule or -- worse -- no attention at all. From the Carter Family on to Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Carlene Carter and others, they have risen and fallen on the strengths and frailties of their own labors.

- Chet Flippo, CMT.com Editorial Director

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The title of Carlene Carter’s first release in over a decade points to her living through the deaths, in stunningly swift succession over a nine-month period in 2003, of long-time partner Howie Epstein, mother June Carter, stepfather Johnny Cash, and sister Rosey. But it could just as easily refer to the quality of what’s within, because musically speaking, Carter sounds as strong as she’s ever been-stronger. Carter’s stock in trade, particularly during her heyday in the early ’90s when mainstream country radio was, for a brief time, accommodating to artists of her ilk, was a beguiling mix of country and poppy rock that was equal parts buoyant and twangy. Stronger is stuffed to the gills with more of the same, full of lightning fluid guitar runs, hooky turns, soaring choruses and Carter’s own edgy growl, along with occasional detours through slowdowns like the Carter Family echo of "To Change Your Heart." A magnificent, and welcome, return.

-Harp Magazine, March/April 2008

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