| I Fell in Love | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 13, 1990 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 37:58 | |||
| Label | Reprise Records | |||
| Producer | Howie Epstein | |||
| Carlene Carter chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Q | [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
I Fell in Love is the sixth studio album by American country music singer Carlene Carter, released in 1990. This was the highest-ranking Billboard album of her career, at #19 on the US Country charts. Four singles from the album also charted, with the title song "I Fell in Love," and "Come on Back" both reaching #3 as singles.[2] Two lower-charting hits were the #25 "The Sweetest Thing" and the #33 "One Love."
The track "Me and the Wildwood Rose" is a tribute to Carter's half-sister, Rosie Nix Adams. "Easy From Now On", a song that Carter cowrote with Susanna Clark in the 1970s, was originally a number 12 hit for Emmylou Harris on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Also, "You Are the One," written by Leon Payne, was a top 5 country hit for Carter's father, Carl Smith, in 1956.[4] The album was produced by Howie Epstein from the Heartbreakers and also featured Benmont Tench, who cowrote the title track.
Critical reception
AllMusic's review by Mark Deming states "with June Carter Cash and Levon Helm joining her on backing vocals, the country accents ring out with an honesty and purity that cuts through the radio-ready mix. I Fell in Love may have been an effort to play nice on Carter's part, but it doesn't sound like a compromise so much as proof she had enough talent to have her cake and eat it too. And in this case, the cake is pretty tasty stuff."[1]
People's review begins with "Maybe it has just taken this much time for all those country-music genes and step-genes to get lined up, but Carter at 34 is sounding much better than ever."[5] Mark Cooper in Q Magazine called the album "a well-balanced set which plays to all Carter's strengths and the one she's been promising to make all along."[2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "I Fell in Love" |
| 3:40 |
| 2. | "Come On Back" | C. Carter | 2:56 |
| 3. | "The Sweetest Thing" |
| 4:13 |
| 4. | "My Dixie Darlin'" | A. P. Carter | 2:36 |
| 5. | "Goodnight Dallas" | C. Carter | 3:39 |
| 6. | "One Love" |
| 3:03 |
| 7. | "The Leavin' Side" |
| 3:25 |
| 8. | "Guardian Angel" |
| 3:24 |
| 9. | "Me and the Wildwood Rose" | C. Carter | 3:54 |
| 10. | "You Are the One" | Leon Payne | 2:37 |
| 11. | "Easy From Now On" |
| 4:31 |
| Total length: | 37:58 | ||
- Track information and credits taken from the album's liner notes.[6]
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- 1 2 Deming, Mark. "I Fell in Love review". AllMusic. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
- 1 2 3 Cooper, Mark (5 March 1991). "I Fell In Love review". Q Magazine. 55: 66.
- ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 114.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. pp. 152, 319.
- ↑ "Picks and Pans Review: I Fell in Love". People.com. People Magazine. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ↑ I Fell in Love (liner notes). Carlene Carter. Reprise. 1990.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ↑ "Carlene Carter Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1991". Billboard. Retrieved May 29, 2021.