I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

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• Carlene Carter:

  Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.

• Carlene Carter:

  I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.

• Carlene Carter:

  My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see tha

• Carlene Carter:

  I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids

• Carlene Carter:

  I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

• Carlene Carter:

  In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too

• Carlene Carter:

  The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all

• Carlene Carter:

  You can have a big hit and not get rich.

• Carlene Carter:

  Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts p

• Carlene Carter:

  I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a