As part of country music royalty (the daughter of June Carter Cash and Carl Smith and step daughter to Johnny Cash) Carlene Carter has seen both the ups and downs of the music business and life. She's had her family chronicled in Hollywood films (Walk the Line), seen the dark side of fame and struggled with addiction, all the while holding onto the grace and class emboldened deep family roots. Inspired by her life experiences, Stronger is a raw but touching recollection of her life of the past few years. Years that included the wrenching sorrow of the sudden death of her mother and stepfather within months of each other, as well as the euphoria of meeting and falling in love with the cowboy of her dreams. On her latest work, strong family roots have intertwined with her musical roots, seeing Carlene return to Tennessee to record and prompting her to enlist brother John Carter Cash to produce. Her recent emotional peaks and valleys have also inspired Carlene to write the bulk of the material on Stronger, making for her most honest, real and moving work to date.