Carlene Carter & The Rumour Concert

CVSupport | Monday, May 19, 2008 | 7:12 am

Thanks again Corry, we'll take care of it!

corry342 | Friday, May 16, 2008 | 12:04 pm

You certainly may, I'm honored. Please put some paragraph breaks in, and fix my mistake: the bassist is Andrew Bodnar, the drummer is Stephen Goulding. Corry

MrPaulCaruso | Friday, May 09, 2008 | 3:11 pm

Thanks corry, that's a wonderful summary. May we use it for the summary?

corry342 | Friday, May 09, 2008 | 9:18 am

Well, there ought to be a summary. Carlene Carter-vocals, guitar Brinsley Schwarz-lead guitar Martin Belmont-guitar Bob Andrews-organ, piano, electric piano Stephen Bodnar-bass Andrew Goulding-drums Carlene Carter (daughter of June Carter Cash, stepdaugher of Johnny Cash, half-sister of Roseanne Cash) went to London to record her debut album with Graham Parker's band, and ended up marrying the producer. I saw her and them on this tour (in San Francisco), and they were about 15 years ahead of their time in mixing Nashville and rock with a touch of soul. It was no suprise that Carlene finally became a country star in the 1990s. Carlene Carter has had her problems subsequently, but at this time, everybody was young and strong (myself included) and she had talent and charisma to go. The Rumour, at the time, seemed to be the heir apparents to The Band, and had some fine, if now obscure, albums of their own, and Graham Parket looked to be the Van Morrison of the 80s. The Carlene and The Rumour combination only did the one brief American tour, but fortunately a number of radio broadcasts survive. The next summer, for her second album, Carlene toured with the remnants of Clover (another band produced by Nick Lowe, though formally broken up by then). I saw that tour too: the band was John McFee (later Doobie Brothers, and Southern Pacific), Sean Hopper (later Huey Lewis and The News), John Ciambotti (Carlene's manager for a while, I believe) and Kevin Wells (I think, on drums). McFee, Hopper and Ciambotti had backed Elvis Costello on My Aim Is True (also produced by Lowe). That tour was excellent too, but there were no radio broadcasts that I know of, more's the pity.