Carter says that Elton John’s ex-wife and former singing partner Kiki Dee, whom Carter befriended in ’85 when the two costarred in the UK production of Pump Boys and Dinettes told her ...

“One of the biggest gifts I was given, as a young girl, was to be charged with carrying the music on,” Carter said. “There are 750 Carter Family songs. They’re all good.

I walk [in there] where it says 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken,' and my 'peeps' are in there," Carlene told The Boot of her Hall of Fame visit. "I usually have a few tears.

Carlene Carter’s new masterpiece spans a century of music, but by implication contains the whole of human history in an unbroken circle. She — and her elders — have given us this gift.

Her latest, Carter Girl, an album of Carter Family songs and two originals, is a return to her roots, a reaffirmation of who she is and what her family stands for.