Carlene Carter Fan Club: Music

Track #8 - "Friends Of A Kind"

Lyric & Music: Carlene Carter Routh
Vocals: Tracy Nelson, Carlene Carter

Shown here is the CD release of "Homemade Songs," combined with another album, "Come See About Me," on Flying Fish Records in 1993.

CIRCUS WEEKLY - March 6, 1979 Tracy Nelson is one of our most undervalued resources. She is widely recognized by fellow musicians as the greatest female vocalist of a generation that includes such better known country-pop singers as Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Carlene Carter. Yet without the kind of support these other singers got from their record companies, Tracy Nelson has remained a well-kept secret to the general public. Finally, after so many false starts, Tracy Nelson has found the kind of support and artistic freedom that have been denied to her for so long. "Homemade Songs" is her best album in years. Carlene Carter joins Tracy on vocals for Carter's "Friends Of A Kind," and the two trade off lines nicely.
DONALD MYERS

ROLLING STONE - April 19, 1979 She dishes out powerful, gospel-tinged blues (her best work in years) and heavy helpings of love-is-complex-but-I'll-survive, chin-up sentiment: "You think I'll fall right apart / But I'm in control / Because I've been there before." Nelson's confidence is catching. In the LP's showpiece, "Friends Of A Kind," she and cohort Carlene Carter trade verses with a rough-edged authority.
DEBRA RAE COHEN