Carlene Carter – C’est C Bon (1983 / Epic Records / Carrollton Press Pressing / LP)

Carlene Carter – C’est C Bon (1983 / Epic Records / Carrollton Press Pressing / LP)

A factory-sealed Mint original pressing of Carlene Carter's 1983 Epic Records album — a Carrollton Press LP, pristine and unplayed.

Carlene Carter occupies a genuinely singular position in country music history — the daughter of June Carter Cash, granddaughter of Mother Maybelle Carter, and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash, she arrived with a lineage that would have defined almost anyone else's career entirely and instead chose to spend much of her early recording life actively subverting it. Her late-1970s and early-1980s recordings for Warner Bros. UK — produced in part by her then-husband Nick Lowe and informed by the British pub rock and new wave scene around him — are among the most distinctive records made by any artist operating in the country orbit during that period. C'est C Bon, released in 1983 on Epic, represents her major label country pivot: more polished than the Warner Bros. work, but carrying the same wit, independence, and cross-genre sensibility that made her early career so compelling. The title — French for "It's Good" — is characteristic Carlene, playful and slightly irreverent about the conventions of a genre she was simultaneously working within and against. This original Epic pressing carries the Carrollton Press designation — Columbia Records' Carrollton, GA plant, which produced much of Epic's early-1980s domestic catalog and is specifically documented by collectors of the label and era. A sealed Mint Carrollton Press original at this price is accessible value for Carter family collectors, country rock completists, and anyone building a serious early-1980s Epic country catalog.

• Format: LP, Album, Stereo
• Pressing: Carrollton Press (Columbia Records Carrollton, GA)
• Edition: Original Pressing, 1983
• Label: Epic Records – BFE 38663
• Genre: Country Rock, Pop Rock
• Media Condition: Mint (M) — factory sealed, unplayed
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

Sealed Mint Carrollton Press original — Carlene Carter on Epic, 1983. Carter family lineage, Nick Lowe connections, and a title that says exactly what it means. A clean original at an accessible price.

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