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Carlene Carter: Country Music Royalty

Songwriter Carlene Carter explains how it felt to grow up in music and to carry on the family legacy. Then she plays a game guessing which artist or band is featured in a real pinball machine.
Carlene Carter appears on <em>Ask Me Another</em> at TPAC's Polk Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.

Bow down — or politely curtsy — in the presence of country music royalty like Carlene Carter. As the daughter of Carl Smith and June Carter Cash, the stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (who bought her first electric guitar from Sears), and part of the groundbreaking Carter Family, it's fair to say Carlene

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