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.

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" – 2:47
  9. "If the Shoe Fits" – 2:21
  10. "My Cricket" – 2:55
  11. "This Masquerade" – 4:22
  12. "Magic Mirror" – 4:56

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