left shoe shuffle wrote on Jan 2
nd, 2010 at 9:52am:
I saw the Carter Sisters with Johnny Cash in 1989.
There's a sbd from the 3/20/89 show in Minneapolis that includes the Carter Sisters'
set.
Great stuff...
They also toured in the 80's as The Carter Family, with June's daughter Carlene.
Don't think that Johnny's daughter Rosanne ever performed with them.
I dont think she did either. Not touring anyway. However, there's a 'Carter Family Fold' near Clinch Mountain in Virginia which is a site dedicated to preserving that genre of music and where the various members of the family would perform from time to time in recent years. Johnny Cash actually gave his final performance there.
Carlene toured as part of the 'Carter Sisters', which comprised herself, her mother (June) and June's sisters Anita and Helen.
This was in the late 80s when she had quit recording for a few years before relaunching her career around 1990.
June had two daughters - Carlene Carter (with her first husband Carl Smith) and Rosie Nix Adams (with her second husband), both of whom had recording careers (Rosie died in 2003, the same year as June Carter and Johnny Cash). June also had a son with Johnny Cash, John Carter Cash, who is a producer and songwriter.
Carlene's just relaunched her career again a couple of years ago after a pretty horrendous decade in her personal life. I'm a big fan of hers and am going to see her next month. I met her last time she played here in '97 - she was really nice and a real hoot.