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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Wounded Bird Records
Salesrank: 132289
Released: October 25, 2005 |
| Our Price: $9.84 |
| Used Price: $9.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Two Sides to Every Woman/Musical Shapes Track Listing:
1. Do It in a Heartbeat
2. Lies
3. Swap-Meat Rag
4. Gold-Hearted Lady
5. Two Sides to Every Woman
6. It's No Wonder (Why I Love Him)
7. One Good Lover
8. Old Photographs
9. Radio Sweetheart
10. Cry
11. Madness
12. Baby Ride Easy
13. Bandit of Love
14. I'm So Cool
15. Appalachian Eyes
16. Ring of Fire
17. Too Bad About Sandy
18. Foggy Mountain Top
19. That Very First Kiss
20. To Drunk (To Remember)
21. Too Proud
Editorial Review:
Carlene Carter is a country singer, with a little rock thrown in, thanks to her marriage to Nick Lowe. She is the daughter of June Carter. She has issued numerous albums over the 70s, 80s & 90s. Two Sides To Every Woman was her second album, issued in 1979. It features Paul Schafer & Clarence Clemons. It is making its worldwide CD debut as part of this two-fer. Musical Shapes is from 1980 and features Dave Edmunds & Nick Lowe. Wounded Bird. 2005.
Two Sides to Every Woman/Musical Shapes Reviews:
This Girl Kicks BUTT!!!! 
2009-08-01 - These albums both came out in the late 70s and early 80s. I first heard "Do It In A Heartbeat" in 1979, and LOVED it! Her piano playing on it really catches your ear, the lyrics are cute, funny, and sweet, and the drumming, by Jerry Marotta, is very powerful, and commands your attention. I also discovered some other gems on this set, like "Baby Ride Easy," her duet with Dave Edmunds, "I'm So Cool," which is full of sass and attitude, and her version of "Ring of Fire," which is the best I've heard yet. "It's No Wonder Why I Love Him" is a sweet, beautiful love song that's not drippy in the least. Her voice is extremely song. I wish I could sing like that! She's got it all -- talent, beauty, intelligence and personality. I want all of her CDs now. GET this CD set!
a note about Musical Shapes..... 
2005-12-17 - This reissue, for me, is notable for the second album. Musical Shapes is the great lost Rockpile country album- excellent Nick Lowe/Dave Edmunds/Billy Bremmer stuff with Carlene's tough girl vocals. Two Sides is indeed an excellent album, but for my money, Musical Shapes is the gem in the collection.
a superb twofer from a perhaps overlooked artist...
2005-10-31 - Carlene Carter is perhaps best known for her ties to June Carter and Johnny Cash. June was Carlene's mother, and Johnny Cash would later go on to become Carlene's stepfather. Carlene has also been notorious for her troubled, hard-living personal life. She had some major commercial success with her early '90s comeback, but her excellent early work seems to have been badly overlooked.
In October of 2005, Wounded Bird Records reissued Carlene Carter's first four albums. Seemingly to make them more appealing, they released twofers instead of each album on a single CD. However, being the sly marketers that they are, Wounded Bird clearly took into account that there has previously been a CD released that paired her 3rd and 4th albums, "Musical Shapes" and "Blue Nun" respectively, onto a single CD. So, what they have done is paired her 1st and 4th albums onto one disc, and paired her 2nd album "Two Sides to Every Woman" with 1980's "Musical Shapes". (It's fortunate that Wounded Bird didn't pair "Two Sides..." with 1981's weak "Blue Nun".)
Anyway you look at it, this pairing of "Two Sides to Every Woman" and "Musical Shapes" makes for a CD that contains a wealth of great music. In particular, 1979's "Two Sides to Every Woman" is real stunner that can't be missed if you take country-flavored rock & roll seriously--it's a little-known classic that puts the likes of such future "country rockers" as Shania Twain to absolute shame. Not only does it happen to have one of the sexiest album covers of all time, but Carlene clearly upped the ante from her debut, and "Two Sides..." simply kicks ass all over the place--it's got the stomping "Swap Meat Rag"; the raging uptempo rocker "Lies" (written by Roger Troy & Nick Gravenites); the haunting minor-keyed ballad "Gold Hearted Lady"; and the roaring, ultra-catchy title track which sounds kind of like a disco-rocker with its catchy beat and string arrangement, but it rocks out devastatingly and has an infectious, impassioned Carlene vocal. The album also has the fun, lighthearted, rolling pop-rocker "Do It In A Heartbeat"; the sassy, riffy country-rocker "One Good Lover"; the memorable, tender and reflective "Old Photographs"; and the fine ballad "It's No Wonder (Why I Love Him)". The closing track is a version of the Elvis Costello composition "Radio Sweetheart" which has one of those damn endlessly-repeated fadeouts so characteristic of early Costello, but at least in this case it serves as a respectable 'anthemic' finale to the album.
"Musical Shapes" isn't as exciting overall, but it's by no means less than respectable, and it has such moments as the album opening one-two punch of "Cry" and "Madness"; the venomous "Too Bad About Sandy"; and the highly catchy rockabilly-flavored "The Very First Kiss".
"Two Sides to Every Woman" hasn't been released officially on CD prior to this, and it's an absolute must for any serious listener, containing some of the hardest-rocking country music you could imagine. Adding "Musical Shapes" makes this CD even more valuable. Overall, a superb twofer.
