Kim Carnes Feature: View from the House (1988)
LOS ANGELES – "People may have a misconception as to why I went to Nashville and what this album was going to sound like," says Kim Carnes. "It was never my intent to make a country album." If you'd call Bruce Hornsby country, then by some stretch of the imagination you'd call this record strictly country. Acoustical-Rock-Pop-Country perhaps (for all you labeling freaks out there!) Carnes' new LP View from the House is her debut for MCA, and it is an suspicious piece of non-sequencer record-making, filled with wonderful tunes from folks like John Prine ("If you Don't Want My Love", "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness") Frankie Miller and Troy Seals ("Heartbreak Radio"), and a reqorking of the Johnny Otis standard "Willie and the Hand Jive". The tracks are played live by Carnes and a group of distinguished musicians including Leland Sklar on bass and Billy Joe Walker Jr. on guitars, and cameo appearances by
