Just a Stone's Throw Away [Import]

Valerie Carter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony Japan
• ASIN: B000025SML
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,427 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. O-o-h Child

2. Ringing Doorbells in the Rain

3. Heartache

4. Face of Appalachia

5. So, So, Happy

6. A Stone's Throw Away

7. Cowboy Angel

8. City Lights

9. Back to Blue Some More

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just buy it, January 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Just a Stone's Throw Away (Audio CD)

Don't waste time thinking it over. This is simply one of the all-time greatly overlooked classics. If you appreciate amazing vocals in the realm of Ronstadt's pipes, McLachlan's vulnerability, with a little Etta James thrown in, then just order this. The songs are a little outdated, but they hold up incredibly well. I don't get any kickbacks for this, nor do I know Valerie Carter. I have just loved this piece of work since it was released over 20 years ago. She is phenomenal.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Crazy After 25 years, August 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Just a Stone's Throw Away (Audio CD)

I have looked for this album in used record stores since I broke up with my boyfriend and he got the album collection 25 years ago. This is probably my all-time favorite album, and so I am thrilled to find it re-released on CD. Valerie Carter's music has the versatility and funk of say, Janis Joplin, and the expressive style and power of KD Lang. In my 20s, I listened over and over to the haunting "Back to Blues Some More," which still captures for me the exquisite alienation of love lost on the wrong-side of the tracks. "The Face of Appalachia" imbues bluegrass with the Blues, with some excellent 12-string work, and I am not typically a bluegrass fan. Her version of "Ooh, Ooh, Child" is sultry, funky, and sublime, and she blows it away as only Janis, or KD, or Carlie can do. She also experiments with a blues-country style, in "Cowboy Angel" and her interpretation is neither saccharine nor shallow. If you have never heard this album, it is a MUST.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Lost Treasure, January 29, 2006

By 

K. Coburn "movie fan" (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Just a Stone's Throw Away (Audio CD)

I first heard of Valerie Cater with her version of Ooh Child. It was featured during the end credits of the 1979 film Over The Edge. I fell in love with it and for years wanted to find a recording of it. Having purchased the film on DVD and listening to the song again, on a whim I did the search here for Valerie's work.

To my delight, I found this CD. Upon purchasing and listening to it, I found out just how talented this lady is. Along with Ooh Child: Ringing Doorbells in the Rain and Face of Appalachia are my favorite tracks. Somehow, City Lights is sort of an odd song, not really fitting in with the feel of the rest of the tracks on the CD. But nevertheless an exceptional album.

I hope everyone will find that Lost Treasure CD they so want. With this, I know I have!