Album Notes

When I was just a very young child, I used to listen to the old radio and all the country songs .When no music was on the radio, we had special nights when our favorite radio shows was on. Namely, Our Miss Brooks, Amos and Andy, Baby Snooks, The shadow, The Great Gildersleeve THE LONE RANGER just to name a few. Those were the good old days.
Today the Old Home Place has been torn down and all that is left is the memories of those years when it was safe to go to town at a young age to the movies without any fear of being in harms way.
I didn't have the chance to get a high school education because of not having a home like so many others had, Our parents divorced when i was 6 years old and from then on it was the children's home and then from home to home with whoever would take us in for the money they got from the state.
I can say that only one family was ever what you can call good to us. When i was in the 3rd grade my mother re-married and got us back home again . Life was a little better then ,but not all it should have been...and I ended up having to quit school at 16 and find work and a place to live on my own. At this time ,I met a guy who had a song out on the jukeboxes under the name of Donnie Young who later changed his stage name to Johnny PayCheck. One night as we were playing real late (2AM) in the morning, I was about ready to give up looking for any chance to be good at playing the guitar, when Johnny told me A WINNER NEVER QUITS AND A QUITER NEVER WINS>>How true that was to be.
Before I enlisted in the service, I played in some local bars and a few out of town places.
I was never seen in town that I didn't have my d-28 martin guitar with me. All I thought of or dreamed of was being a country music singer/writer.even if I never made the big time, writing about my life and times and songs about others loves and lost loves...the feelings of heartbreak
I guess is what I can write about most, my life from an early age...Even today,many memories are still there to remind me of those days when it was ONE day at a time to exist. The songs I have written on this cd has it's own time and moment in my life and I am shure many of you folks can say that some of these songs can pretty well describe a time in your life also. The good times, sad times ,the memories. One of my favorites is how I felt when our old home place was torn down.(THEY'RE TEARING DOWN THE OLD HOME PLACE)...
I wrote Tribute To Daddy, when a friend of mine lost his brother in the war and had a wife & little girl........
THE WEDDING VOWS song I dedicated to Heidi Newfield (TRICK PONY) and her husband Bill. JUNE 6,2004. Gave her an autographed copy when she was here in person. I wish them many happy years together.
The best day of my life was when Johnny and George Jones showed up at my sisters home in Greenfield,Ohio and I had the great pleasure of playing music most all night with them .It was one of George's NO SHOW times >And also when I was in Nashville in july 2003 and played at the Nashville Palace and Broken Spoke Saloon. That week I was introduced to Jack Greene by Jim Peaks, the mgr. at the ERNEST TUBB record shop across from OPRYLAND . My wife and I were treated with front row seats at his show that night and it will be a time we will always remember. Candi Carpenter was appearing with him and she sang BLUE to me..THAT WAS A SPECIAL TREAT> I have done and been thru a lot im my life.. enough time to write a book .......but maybe that will be later ..
These current songs can be purchased one at a time on several digital download sites. For info on downloading one or more songs from this cd, e-mail me and I will give you the sites this cd is available on .

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(R. CARTER BLUE FEATURED IN COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE
IN THE JULY-DECEMBER 2004 ISSUE.....
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THIS CD CLEARLY REFLECTS A TALENTED
SINGER-SONGWRITER WHO HAS THE ABILTIY TO COMBINE
LYRICS AND MUSIC TOGETHER IN ORDER TO BRING
TOGETHER A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF TRADITIONAL
COUNTRY SONGS. TRIBUTE TO DADDY IS ONLY A SAMPLE
OF WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS GREAT COLLECTION.
WHAT YOU WANT FROM A SONG YOU WILL FIND HERE,
AS THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND FOR BLUE STAR BRINGS
TO YOU ONLY THE BEST IN TRADITIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC.......