say something interesting about clarence carter's "making love (at the dark end of the street)"

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this record is strangely cathartic.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i only heard it about 18 months ago. it kinda threw me.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

How did he know which end was the dark end?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

was this like the "everybody's free (to wear sunscreen)" of its day?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

better to make love at the dark end of the street than the bright one...

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

wow, "Patches" is *totally* a country song. a black country song. what do the Chuck/Don/Matt/Frank mafia think about this? one wonders.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 6 March 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The distance between various southern soul records and country ones is pretty small.

This is a great record, I think - my favourite thing Carter ever did. There are a few other versions I like better, but it's one of my favourite songs.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 March 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Strokin'!

― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet the ILX Country mafia dig Clarence Carter. He's a busy tourin' guy. He's always in DC. I like when he repeats his name a bunch a times in a row-clarence carterclarence carter clarence carter. I thik I played "Patches" on my college radio show many moons back.

Great stuff while lighter in mood than Peter Guralnick fave James Carr's take on "Dark End of the Street," written by country boys Chips Moman and Dan Penn.

― Steve-k (Steve K), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone who wrote off Clarence Carter after some asshole played them "Strokin'" as a joke should check out this song and a lot of other amazing songs by Carter, who is criminally underappreciated.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it is lighter in mood, i guess, during the recitation, but then it breaks out into something seriously intense, and the shift can be strangely bracing.

carter's first 5 (??) records are quite good. even back then he had some shticky elements to his vocal approach that sort of took over with time. "strokin'" is unlistenable.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

we need a thread for "Back Door Santa" (it's off the same album, at least)

― milo z, Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVnH39UzI8&feature=player_embedded

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:54 (seventeen years ago)

Woah.

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:25 (seventeen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

RIP Clarence Carter, 90

https://soultracks.com/clarence-carter-dies/

He was a great one. As I (under a different name) noted above in 2005 he put on a great live show

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 May 2026 19:46 (five months ago)

RIP. Now he's strokin' it with the big man in the sky

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Friday, 15 May 2026 02:13 (five months ago)

Can't believe Amateur(ist) was so harsh on "Strokin" . It's a great song. No wonder I don't see Amateur(ist) on the Chitlin Circuit soul thread

― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 May 2026 02:58 (five months ago)

It is a great song!

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Friday, 15 May 2026 03:55 (five months ago)

every line in it is funny

― frogbs, Friday, 15 May 2026 04:00 (five months ago)

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