Valerie Carter

The problem with most of the women singers currently working in Southern California is
that all of them seem dominated by producers and arrangers. From Linda Ronstadt to
Bonnie Raitt to Emmylou Harris and Wendy Waldman, and with the striking exception of
Joni Mitchell, all are chattel to the strength and appropriateness of arrangement and
production. The marvel of Valerie Carter's debut album is that she surmounts thi... More >