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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
Released	June 26, 1972 (1972-06-26)
Studio	Skyhill (Hollywood) Muscle Shoals (Sheffield, Alabama) Paradise (Tia Juana, Oklahoma)
Genre	Roots rock[1] psychedelia[1]
Length	37:34
Label	Shelter (US); A&M (UK)
Producer	Denny Cordell Leon Russell
Leon Russell chronology
Asylum Choir II (1971) Carney (1972) Looking Back (1973)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B−[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. "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

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