Leon Russell - Carney (1972) Part 1 (Full Album)

Track List: 1-4 1. Leon Russell - Tight Rope (0:00) 2. Leon Russell - Out in the Woods (3:01) 3. Leon Russell - Me and Baby Jane (6:39) 4. Leon Russell - Manhattan Island Serenade (10:31) Part 1.    • Leon Russell - Carney (1972) Part 1 (Full ...   Part 2.    • Leon Russell - Carney (1972) Part 2 (Full ...   Part 3.    • Leon Russell - Carney (1972) Part 3 (Full ...   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. 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." 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