Blue Nun (album)

Blue Nun is an album by the American musician Carlene Carter, released in 1981. It features two duets with British rocker Paul Carrack: "Oh How Happy" and "Do Me Lover".

Critical reception

Writing in The Boston Phoenix, Joyce Millman opined that while Carter "can write a snazzy pop tune ... the absence of any 'Western swing' makes Blue Nun a bit of a disappointment. ... [T]hough [producer Nick] Lowe has assembled the best pop hired hands (guitarists Martin Belmont, Billy Bremner, and ex-Record Huw Gower), Carter frequently sounds like a teenager singing along with her Supremes records."

Track listing

• Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.

Personnel

• Martin Belmont – guitar
• Billy Bremner – guitar, backing vocals
• Bette Bright – backing vocals
• Paul Carrack – Hammond organ, piano, backing vocals
• Carlene Carter – guitar, piano, vocals
• Ginny Clee – backing vocals
• Big Al Downing – backing vocals
• James Eller – bass, backing vocals
• Huw Gower – guitar, backing vocals
• Bobby Irwin – drums, backing vocals
• Nick Lowe – bass, backing vocals
• Glenn Tilbrook – backing vocals

• Paul Bass, Aldo Bocca, Rob Keyloch, Neill King – engineer

References