★★★★★
Carlene Carter's place in the history of American music was assured long before the conception or recording of her new CD, Carter Girl, but its creation makes for a solid insight into her world. As daughter of June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, and granddaughter of Maybelle Carter, her view of the machinations of the music industry is informed by family and history, and the weight of both of these factors has influenced her career of some 35-plus years...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-15
★★★★★
Doing -justice to her history ... Carlene Carter
Carlene Carter comes from a legendary musical family; her grandmother was Maybelle Carter from country music heroes the Carter Family, her mum was June Carter Cash, and her stepfather was Johnny Cash. Carlene has revived their songs before, but never with this intensity and emotion...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-04-11
★★★★★
This new record by Carlene Carter -- daughter of June, granddaughter of A. P. and Sara -- will be of immediate interest to anyone with a taste for the history of roots music. If anyone knows this music inside and out, backwards and forwards, it'll be the progeny of the first family of American folk music. And here, carried on Don Was' creative production work, Carter offers her most compelling album to date, a late-career rejuvenation that feels like the first chapter in a new story...
- exclaim.ca
2014-05-01
★★★★★
A great legacy can be a blessing and a curse, and when your mother is June Carter and your stepdad is Johnny Cash, you're going to have a lot to live up to in the minds of most folks. Carlene Carter has built a pretty remarkable career for herself as a vocalist, and after a dark period she made an impressive comeback with 2008's Stronger...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-04-18
★★★★★
While Avey Tare's characteristic tendency to over-egg arrangements with obfuscatory effects and extra layers of sound sometimes overloads Enter the Slasher House, it's far less indulged than on the last Animal Collective album. It's the result, perhaps, of this new outlet being an actual band, Tare joining forces with keyboard player Angel Deradoorian and drummer Jeremy Hyman in a "jazz power trio" devoted to recording live with minimal overdubs...
- www.independent.co.uk
2014-04-18
★★★★★
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Carlene Carter, 'Carter Girl'
By Stuart Munro
| Globe Correspondent
April 01, 2014
Carlene Carter says she's been waiting her whole life to...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2014-04-08
★★★★★
In 1990, I Fell in Love established Carlene Carter as a countrystar after a couple of decades spent making rock & roll, rockabilly,country-rock-just about every combination except the hard-corecountry music that the daughter of June Carter Cash and granddaughterof Maybelle Carter would seem born to make. Little Love Lettersarrives as a shrewd mixture of Carter's past and present...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
This woman has a strong voice, an assertive persona, and good taste in bands (the Rumour) and grandmothers (Maybelle C.). She's twice-divorced with two kids at twenty-two, so she Knows Life, and her songwriting definitely Shows Potential. But reach ain't grasp, strength ain't passion or style, and she could use a haircut.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
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