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Carney (Leon Russell album)

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Length
  
37:29

Release date
  
26 June 1972

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop music

Artist
  
Label
  
Shelter Records

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Released
  
June 26, 1972 (1972-06-26)

Carney(1972)
  
Hank Wilson's Back(1973)

Similar
  
Leon Russell albums, Rock music albums

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Carney is Leon Russell's third solo studio album, released in 1972. It peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 200 and was the first for Russell to contain a hit single — "Tight Rope" b/w "This Masquerade" — which reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Contents

Reception

In a review for Allmusic, the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called "Tight Rope", the opening track, "an excellent introduction to an off-kilter, confused, fascinating album" and said that the album "consolidates his two extremes, offering a side of fairly straightforward roots rock before delving headfirst into twisted psychedelia on the second side." Critic Robert Christgau expressed similar sentiments, writing, "Not the radical falloff some report — just slippage, the first side listenable and the second flaky."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Leon Russell except where indicated

  1. "Tight Rope" – 2:59
  2. "Out in the Woods" – 3:35
  3. "Me and Baby Jane" – 3:52
  4. "Manhattan Island Serenade" – 3:25
  5. "Cajun Love Song" – 3:08
  6. "Roller Derby" – 2:22
  7. "Carney" – :47
  8. "Acid Annapolis" (Leon Russell, Don Preston) – 2:47
  9. "If the Shoe Fits" – 2:21
  10. "My Cricket" – 2:55
  11. "This Masquerade" – 4:22
  12. "Magic Mirror" – 4:56

Personnel

  • Leon Russell – vocals, guitar, bass, piano
  • Don Preston – guitar, vocals
  • Joey Cooper – guitar
  • Carl Radle – bass
  • Chuck Blackwell – drums
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • John Gallie – organ
  • Songs

    1Tight Rope3:01
    2Out In The Woods3:36
    3Me and Baby Jane3:53

    References

    Carney (Leon Russell album) Wikipedia


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