Little Acts of Treason is the title of an album released in 1995 by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Carlene Carter

Carlene Carter

Carlene Carter is an American country singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter and her first husband, Carl Smith....

. Included is "Loose Talk," a duet with Carter's father, country singer Carl Smith

Carl Smith (country musician)

Carl Milton Smith was an American country music singer. Known as "Mister Country," Smith was the husband of June Carter and Goldie Hill, the drinking companion of Johnny Cash, and the father of Carlene Carter...

. The album's lead-off single "Love Like This" was originally recorded by Blackhawk

Blackhawk (band)

Blackhawk is an American country music group founded in 1992 by Henry Paul , Van Stephenson , and Dave Robbins...

 for their 1994 debut album, Blackhawk

Blackhawk (album)

Blackhawk is the first studio album by the American country music group Blackhawk. Released in 1994 on Arista Nashville, it was certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for shipping two million copies. The album produced the singles "Goodbye Says It All", "Every Once in a While", "I Sure Can...

, and before that by Kennedy Rose

Kennedy Rose

Kennedy Rose is an American country music duo composed of singer-songwriters Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose. Both members of the duo previously recorded in the all-women band Calamity Jane on Columbia Records in the 1980s. After splitting from the duo, Kennedy and Rose founded the duo and signed to...

 on their 1990 album hai ku.

Carter co-produced with James Stroud

James Stroud

James Stroud is an American musician and record producer who works in pop, rock, and country music. In the 1990s he was the president of Giant Records and held several credits as a session drummer...

 on tracks 1-4, 8, 10 and 11 and Howie Epstein

Howie Epstein

Howard Norman Epstein , was a musician best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early life:...

 on track 12; she produced the rest of the album herself.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Carlene Carter

Carlene Carter

Carlene Carter is an American country singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter and her first husband, Carl Smith....

, except where indicated.

1. "Hurricane" (Carter, Al Anderson
   Al Anderson (NRBQ)
   Alan Gordon "Al" Anderson is an American guitarist, singer, and songwiter. Between 1971 and the early 1990s, he was the lead guitarist in the rock band NRBQ, also releasing several solo albums. He also played electric guitar on Jonathan Edwards' 1973 album Have a Good Time for Me...
   
   ) – 3:11
2. "Love Like This" (Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose
   Pam Rose
   Pam Rose is an American country music songwriter. In her career, she has been a member of the groups Calamity Jane and Kennedy Rose, both times pairing with fellow songwriter Mary Ann Kennedy. Rose's co-writing credits include the Grammy Award-nominated songs "Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands"...
   
   , Pat Bunch) – 3:21
3. "Little Acts of Treason" – 3:47
4. "He Will Be Mine" (Carter, Anderson) – 3:15
5. "Come Here You" – 4:43
6. "Change" – 4:37
7. "The Lucky Ones" – 4:01
8. "All Night Long" (Carter, Anderson) – 3:46
9. "You'll Be the One" – 4:28
10. "Loose Talk" (Freddie Hart, Ann Lucas) – 2:43
    • feat. Carl Smith
11. "Go Wild" (Carter, Anderson) – 3:11
12. "The Winding Stream" (A.P. Carter) – 3:20
13. "Come Here You" [reprise] – 1:08

Personnel

• Carlene Carter - guitar, percussion, piano, vocals
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
   - background vocals
• Carl Smith
  Carl Smith (country musician)
  Carl Milton Smith was an American country music singer. Known as "Mister Country," Smith was the husband of June Carter and Goldie Hill, the drinking companion of Johnny Cash, and the father of Carlene Carter...
  
   - vocals
• Al Anderson
  Al Anderson (NRBQ)
  Alan Gordon "Al" Anderson is an American guitarist, singer, and songwiter. Between 1971 and the early 1990s, he was the lead guitarist in the rock band NRBQ, also releasing several solo albums. He also played electric guitar on Jonathan Edwards' 1973 album Have a Good Time for Me...
  
   - guitar
• John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson is a US musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone...
  
   - guitar
• Matt Rollings
  Matt Rollings
  Matt Rollings is an American composer, musician and record producer. He plays piano, organ, and keyboards.Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, he has worked with many artists, not all country...
  
   - piano
• Mickey Raphael
  Mickey Raphael
  Michael Siegfried "Mickey" Raphael is a professional harmonica player, best known for his work with Willie Nelson. He has recorded with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, Mötley Crüe, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Chesney, U2 and Neil Young.Raphael's style is mostly second...
  
   - harmonica
• Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...
  
   - drums
• Robert Becker - violin
• Benmont Tench
  Benmont Tench
  Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
  
   - organ, fiddle, piano
• Michael Black - background vocals
• Kenneth Burward-Hoy - viola
• Larry Byrom
  Larry Byrom
  Larry Byrom is an American guitarist who has written, recorded, and toured with acts like Steppenwolf, Ratchell, Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Peter Frampton, Eddie Rabbit and Tanya Tucker.- References :...
  
   - acoustic guitar
• Darius Campo - viola
• Howie Epstein
  Howie Epstein
  Howard Norman Epstein , was a musician best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early life:...
  
   - background vocals
• Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
   - guitar, steel guitar
• John Hobbs - piano
• Dann Huff
  Dann Huff
  Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...
  
   - electric guitar
• Danny Jacob - guitar
• Scott Joss - fiddle, harmonica
• Jana King - background vocals
• Jay Dee Maness - guitar
• Mark O'Connor
  Mark O'Connor
  Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz, country and classical violinist fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition...
  
   - fiddle
• Phil Parlapiano - accordion, harmonium
• Mickey Rafael - drums
• Rachel Robinson - flageolet
• Vince Santoro - drums
• Joe Spivey - mandolin
• Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. He was born in Dayton, Ohio but grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has concentrated on the bass guitar since he was thirteen. He majored in music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Inevitably his talents forced him to abandon the...
  
  - bass
• Curtis Young - background vocals
• Jim Hanson - bass
• Barbara Santoro - background vocals
• Bruce Bukov, Lily Chen, David Ewart, Michael Markham - violin
• Tiffany A. Lowe - background vocals
• Not Quite Ready for the Opry Singers - choir, chorus
• Steve Richards - cello

Chart performance

Chart (1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	65
Canadian RPM Country Albums	18