Paulette Carlson

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Paulette Carlson (born October 11, 1952 in Northfield, Minnesota), is a country singer who rose to fame as the lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101. She started her recording career in 1983, signing a contract with RCA and releasing Paulette Carlson. Three singles were released from that album: "You Gotta Get to My Heart (Before You Lay a Hand on Me)", "Can You Fool", and "I'd Say Yes" in 1983-1984. In 1986, she helped put together Highway 101 and they signed with Warner Brothers Records. Highway 101's self-titled debut album was released in 1987 and yielded four hit singles, "The Bed You Made for Me", "Whiskey, If You Were a Woman", "Somewhere Tonight" (#1), and "Cry Cry Cry" (#1). Carlson wrote or co-wrote three of the album tracks: "Good Goodbye" (co-written with Bob DiPiero and Pat McManus), "Are You Still Mine" and Highway 101's first hit single "The Bed You Made for Me".

Highway 101 released their sophomore album, Highway 101², in 1988. The hits included "(Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes" (#1), "All the Reasons Why", "Honky Tonk Heart" and "Setting Me Up". Carlson co-wrote "All The Reasons Why" with Beth Nielsen Chapman. The following year found Carlson busy with several projects: she participated in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2 album, got married, and, with Highway 101, released Paint the Town. That album's hits included "Who's Lonely Now" (#1), "This Side of Goodbye" and "Walkin', Talkin', Cryin', Barely Beatin' Broken Heart". Highway 101 also won both ACM and CMA's Group of the Year awards in 1988-1989. In 1990, after Highway 101 released Greatest Hits and their final single "Someone Else's Trouble Now", Carlson announced her departure from the group for a solo career.

She signed with Capitol Records and released Love Goes On in 1991, which included three released singles: "I'll Start with You", "Not with My Heart You Don't" and "The Chain Just Broke". This was a very personal album for Carlson as she co-wrote seven of the ten tracks. In 1993, she released a Christmas album titled Christmas Is for You, where she wrote the title track as well as "Mrs. Santa Claus".

In 1996 Carlson reunited with two of her original Highway 101 band members, Curtis Stone and Jack Daniels, releasing Reunited, which was a mixture of eight new songs along with four of the original band's biggest hits from their first three albums. The two new singles were "Where'd You Get Your Cheatin' From" and "It Must Be Love". Carlson also wrote a couple of new songs for this album as well: "Texas Girl" (co-written with Jeff Pennig and Gene Nelson), and "She Don't Have the Heart to Love You". Latest & Greatest was released in 1997, containing seven of Highway 101's greatest hits ("the Greatest") from their first three albums, along with three new songs ("the Latest"): "If I'm Over You", "I Just Don't Love the Man", and "24 Hours". Soon after, Carlson retired to raise her daughter.

In 2005, she released her fourth solo album, It's About Time.

Discography

(solo)

(with Highway 101)

Paulette Carlson Music Videos

  • I'll Start With You [1991]
  • The Chain Just Broke [1992]
  • Christmas is For You [1994]
  • Mrs. Santa Claus [1994]
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