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Two Sides to Every Woman/Musical Shapes Carlene Carter is a country singer, with a little rock thrown in, thanks to her marriage to Nick Lowe. She is the daughter of June Carter. She has issued numerous albums over the 70s, 80s & 90s. Two Sides To Every Woman was her second album, issued in 1979. It features Paul Schaf...	Stronger 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 lived as the daughter of a legend and had her family chronicled in Hollywood fi...	Carlene Carter/Blue Nun Carlene Carter is a country singer, with a little rock thrown in, thanks to her marriage to Nick Lowe. She is the daughter of June Carter. She has issued numerous albums over the 70s, 80s & 90s. Carlene Carter was her debut album from 1978 and features Nick Lowe, Brinsley Schwarz...	Jesus of Cool If you have a dog-eared copy of Nick Lowe's Pure Pop for Now People, here is your chance to revitalize. That 1978 record, an ingenious and melodic pop gem, is really the Americanized version of Jesus of Cool, Lowe's European debut, released the year after his departure from pub-r...	All I Intended to Be Emmylou Harris has always had a way with woe. On All I Intended To Be, she seems more maudlin than ever as she sings her way through songs about loss, heartbreak, even the odd funeral. Of course, this is the kind of material Harris has always been comfortable with, but as her car...
Little Acts of Treason A key to the underlying character of Carlene Carter's 1995 album is the presence of former NRBQ stalwart Al Anderson, who co-wrote four of the 12 songs with Carter and played lead guitar on eight tracks. Carter shares the NRBQ philosophy that traditional eccentricities are more i...	Sleepless Nights As always, Patty Loveless connects with listeners, singing about their joys and sorrows. Sleepless Nights is her newly recorded homage to the classic country hits of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. She personally selected each song, country classics first made popular by George Jones, ...	Call Me Crazy MCA Nashville will officially released Lee Ann Womack's new single "Last Call", to radio June 30. Her highly-anticipated seventh album, produced by Tony Brown and titled Call Me Crazy, will debut this Fall. "I'm so fired up to be back doing what I feel like I was born to do, whi...	The Platinum Collection 2007 collection from the Country/Pop princess, daughter of June Carter Cash, step-daughter of Johnny Cash and ex-wife of Nick Lowe. Carlene recorded some great early '80s Roots/Pop albums then came back strong in the late '80s and '90s with her own brand of Country. This compil...	Just A Little Lovin' It's a risky move for any singer to attempt a direct ascent on the towering peaks of Dusty Springfield's evergreen legacy. (Rolling Stone once called Dusty in Memphis the third most "essential" rock album by a woman.) Just a Little Lovin' achieves the unlikely: a tribute to an im...

Death by production
There was a good album inside of Ms. Carter waiting to be coaxed out. Instead producer Roger Bechirian dished up this disasterous '80s synth-pop mush. Several of the songs were used on albums by collaborators Nick Lowe (Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit) and Paul Carrack (Suburban Voodoo) to good effect, with Lowe's fine production. I have all of Carlene's recordings and have been listening to her since the late '70s, but I find nothing in this one to recommend it.

Harshly underrated Classic
So sad to hear of Carlene Carter's drug and jail problems in the new Century. Back in the 80's she put out this interesting set of pop ditties that never get old.