June Carter Cash was born into the world of country music, a child of the legendary Carter Family, who brought country music to a national audience in the 1930s. Her mother Maybelle Carter was the most celebrated practitioner of the so-called "Carter Scratch" or "Carter picking" guitar style, still imitated around the world. June Carter began performing with the family when she was ten years old. In her teens, she recorded broadcast and toured with her mother and two sisters. She played guitar, banjo, harmonica and autoharp. At age 16 she became one of the principal announcers of their...