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In 1989, she began working on a comeback record with Howie Epstein, the bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. That same year, she performed a duet with Southern Pacific on the Top 40 hit "Time's Up." Reprise signed Carter in 1990 and she released her overdue fifth album, I Fell in Love, later that year. I Fell in Love still had rock influences, but it was a more straightforward country record than her previous albums, and country radio paid attention. The album became a hit and two singles, "I Fell in Love" and "Come on Back," climbed all the way to number three. Little Love Letters, her 1993 follow-up (which was released on Giant Records), was equally successful; its first single, "Every Little Thing," was another number three hit. Little Acts of Treason, her 1995 album, wasn't as big a hit as its two predecessors, but it still enjoyed moderate success on the country charts, and a hits collection, Hindsight 20/20, appeared in the fall of 1996. A variety of personal and professional problems hit Carter at this point, compounded by the 2003 death of Howie Epstein, with whom she'd become romantically involved, followed by the passing of her mother, her sister, and her stepfather within the space of a few months. Carter returned to performing when she joined the cast of the stage musical Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter Story, in which she played the role of her mother and sang a number of the Carter Family classics. A concert album, Live in London at the Marquee Club, was released in 2005, and Carter returned to the studio with producer (and former Doobie Brother) John McFee to record the reaffirming comeback album Stronger in 2008. In 2013, Carter performed at the annual Farm Aid fundraising concert, and began a new studio project with producer Don Was in which she recorded a set of classic Carter Family songs in her own style. The album, Carter Girl, was released in the spring of 2014. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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