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Carlene Carter

If The Carter Family are regarded as near royalty in country music circles, Carlene Carter was the rebellious wildchild, saucing up their traditional, rootsy, God-fearing folk tunes with raunchy country rock. The daughter of June Carter and honky tonk star Carl Smith, Carlene (born Rebecca Carlene Smith) was taught guitar as a ten-year-old by Carl Perkins and started out singing back-up to her mother in her early teens and wrote one of her first songs as a birthday present for stepfather Johnny Cash. Married at 16, a mother a year later and divorced soon afterwards, she was a big...