Carney (Leon Russell album)

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.

Carney
Studio album by
Leon Russell
ReleasedJune 26, 1972 (1972-06-26)
Studio
  • Skyhill (Hollywood)
  • Muscle Shoals (Sheffield, Alabama)
  • Paradise (Tia Juana, Oklahoma)
Genre
Length37:34
LabelShelter (US); A&M (UK)
ProducerDenny Cordell
Leon Russell
Leon Russell chronology
Asylum Choir II
(1971)		 Carney
(1972)		 Looking Back
(1973)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB−[2]

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."[1] Critic Robert Christgau expressed similar sentiments, writing, "Not the radical falloff some report — just slippage, the first side listenable and the second flaky."[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Leon Russell except where indicated.

Side One

  1. "Tight Rope" – 2:59
  2. "Out in the Woods" – 3:35
  3. "Me and Baby Jane" – 3:53
  4. "Manhattan Island Serenade" – 3:26
  5. "Cajun Love Song" – 3:08
  6. "Queen of the Roller Derby" – 2:22

Side Two

  1. "Carney" – :45
  2. "Acid Annapolis" (Leon Russell, Don Preston) – 2:51
  3. "If the Shoe Fits" – 2:23
  4. "My Cricket" – 2:56
  5. "This Masquerade" – 4:22
  6. "Magic Mirror" – 4:54

Charts
Chart (1972) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 6
United States (Billboard 200) 2

Personnel
  • Leon Russell – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano
  • Don Preston – guitar, vocals
  • Joey Cooper – guitar
  • Carl Radle – bass guitar
  • Chuck Blackwell, Jim Keltner – drums
  • John Gallie – Hammond organ
Technical
  • Marlin Greene, John Lemay, Peter Nicholls – engineer
  • Gene Brownell – art direction
  • Daniel Mayo – photography

References
  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Carney: Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 262. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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