Carlene Carter Fan Club: Music

Song titles and track info from the back of the CD cover:

1. Love Is Gone
2. Knock Down Drag Out Kind Of Love
3. Smoke Dreams
4. I Hate To Get To Know You
5. Alabama Morning
6. I've Been There Before
7. I Once Knew Love
8. Easy From Now On
9. Never Together
10. More Than A Hammer
11. Fool In Love
12. Better Start Shutting Them Down
13. Lies
14. Man Smart Woman Smarter
15. I Knew The Bride
16. Come On Back
17. I Love You 'Cause I Want To
18. Baby Ride Easy
19. Something Already Gone

Tracks 1-14 Live at The San Francisco, CA March 7th, 1978.
Tracks 15-19 Live at The Crazy Horse in Santa Ana, CA 1994.

This CD has the look and sound of a bootleg, since the quality of both is far less than one would expect from a release on any respectable label. This one is listed as "Five Dolar Records, A Trademark of GOOD MUSIC UK." ("Dollar" is even misspelled!)

The graphics look homemade and some of the information listed is wrong--for example, tracks 1-14 were recorded at The Boarding House in San Francisco (as the show's announcer states), and some of the song titles are ridiculously misprinted. If someone had even bothered to listen, Carlene introduces a song by her friend Karen Brooks as "Just To Get To Know You," (which is listed as "I Hate To Get To Know You"), and Rodney Crowell's "You Better Start Turnin' 'em Down" (listed as "Better Start Shutting Them Down").

The audio on the CD is from two radio concerts, 16 years apart in Carlene's career. The first 14 songs are from 1978, and the sound is not as good as the last 5, but it does offer a very rare opportunity to hear Carlene in concert around the time of her first album.

No writer or musician credits are included, but Carlene introduces her band, The Rumour, and we can see and hear that she performs several of the songs from her debut album, plus some that were not released on any of her albums--those listed above, "Fool In Love," Jesse Winchester's "It Takes More Than A Hammer And Nails," the CD's title track; and one that she did not release until many years later, her own "Easy From Now On." Also "Lies," from her second album the next year.

The last 5 songs are from a 1994 radio concert, and had been previously released on another European CD with 12 tracks, titled "Hurricane" from Germany in 1994.