Friday, April 28, 2023 1am ET: Feature Live LP: Mary Chapin Carpenter – One Night Lonely (2021)

One Night Lonely is a 2021 live video album from American country musician Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was recorded and released 25 years after her first live performance video, Jubilee: Live at Wolf Trap, also recorded at the same venue. Released July 12, 2021

The performance followed from a series of “Songs from Home” performances that Carpenter live streamed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing for The Arts Desk, Liz Thomson calls this culmination of that series “beautifully shot” and a “a stunning performance” that is “thoughtful, thought-provoking, consoling, and utterly involving”. The recording was first made available for digital streaming on November 27, 2020, followed by compact disc and vinyl LP releases on December 4.

The album was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 64th Grammy Awards.

“The Age of Miracles” – 5:16
“Chasing What’s Already Gone” – 4:48
“Farther Along and Further In” – 3:43
“Sometimes Just the Sky” – 5:13
“I Have a Need for Solitude” – 4:51
“Something Tamed, Something Wild” – 3:58
“Houston” – 5:20
“I Take My Chances” – 3:54
“Grand Central Station” – 4:15
“All Broken Hearts Break Differently” – 3:53
“This Shirt” – 4:58
“I Am a Town” – 5:03
“Stones in the Road” – 4:17
“Heroes and Heroines” – 4:11
“Old D-35” – 5:33
“This Is Love” – 5:10
“John Doe No. 24” – 6:16
“Don’t Need Much to Be Happy” – 4:25
“He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” – 3:54
“Why Shouldn’t We” – 5:04
“Twilight” – 4:29
“Late for Your Life” – 4:24
“The Hard Way” – 4:15
“Between the Dirt and the Stars” – 4:32
“The Things That We Are Made Of” – 5:22
“Traveler’s Prayer” – 4:43

Mary Chapin Carpenter – acoustic guitar, vocals

Tuesday 2/21/23 11am ET: Feature Artist – Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter’s first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Carpenter’s most successful album to date remains 1992’s Come On Come On, which yielded seven charting country singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the US for sales exceeding four million copies. She followed it with Stones in the Road (1994) and A Place in the World (1996), which both featured hit singles. In the 2000s, Carpenter’s albums departed both thematically and musically from her early work, becoming less radio-friendly and more focused on societal and political issues. In 2007, she released The Calling. She followed that with The Age of Miracles (2010), Ashes and Roses (2012) and the orchestral album, Songs From the Movie (2014).

Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which she received from 1992 to 1995. She has sold more than 12 million records worldwide. On October 7, 2012, Carpenter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Carpenter has performed on television shows such as Late Night with David Letterman and Austin City Limits and on radio shows such as The Diane Rehm Show. She also tours frequently, returning to Washington almost every summer to perform at Wolf Trap.

She is a direct descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin, United States Chief Justice John Marshall and a fifth cousin of the late singer and humanitarian Harry Chapin (along with his brothers Tom and Steve).

Monday 2/21/22 10am ET: Artist Countdown: Mary Chapin Carpenter Top 30 Hits

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American rock, folk, and country music singer-songwriter.[1][2] Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter’s first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any charting singles, although 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Carpenter entered the 2000s with her seventh studio album Time* Sex* Love* (2001), debuting at number six on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The release was nominated by the Grammy Awards in 2002 for Best-Engineered Album. Three years later, Between Here and Gone (2004) was issued. The record was co-produced by Carpenter and pianist Matt Rollings. She returned in 2007 with her 10th studio album The Calling on Zoë Records. The project debuted at number 10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and sold 100,000 copies within its first few weeks. After recording a holiday album, Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas in 2008, Carpenter entered the next decade with The Age of Miracles in April 2010. Among other entries, The Age or Miracles debuted within the top 10 of the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. She followed with her 13th studio album Ashes and Roses (2012). Carpenter then collaborated with arranger Vince Mendoza to issue Songs from the Movie (2014), an album of orchestral music. In May 2016, The Things That We Are Made Of marked a return to traditional roots music and debuted a number eight on the Top Country Albums chart. Carpenter’s fifteenth studio album Sometimes Just the Sky (2018) contained new versions of previously-recorded material and debuted at number thirteen on the Billboard folk albums chart.

1	Passionate Kisses
2	I Feel Lucky
3	Shut Up and Kiss Me
4	He Thinks He’ll Keep Her
5	I Take My Chances
6	Tender When I Want to Be
7	Down at the Twist and Shout
8	Romeo (Dolly Parton & Friends)
9	Never Had It So Good
10	Quittin’ Time
11	Let Me into Your Heart
12	Something of a Dreamer
13	You Win Again
14	The Hard Way
15	Going Out Tonight
16	Not Too Much to Ask (with Joe Diffie)
17	Right Now
18	The Bug
19	House of Cards
20	Almost Home
21	How Do
22	I Want to Be Your Girlfriend
23	Why Walk When You Can Fly
24	The Way I Feel
25	Wherever You Are
26	Better to Dream of You
27	Simple Life
28	Keeping the Faith
29	I Put My Ring Back On
30	Soul Companion (with James Taylor)

Thursday 8/20/2020 10pm ET: Feature LP 2020: Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Dirt and the Stars

The Dirt and the Stars is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released on August 7, 2020 by Lambent Light Records.

In a press release, Carpenter described the songs on the album as “very personal” and “difficult in some ways, and definitely come from places of pain and self-illumination, but also places of joy, discovery and the rewards of self- knowledge.” She wrote the album at her Virginia farmhouse and recorded it at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath, England.

1. “Farther Along and Further In” 4:57
2. “It’s Ok to be Sad” 5:05
3. “All Broken Hearts Break Differently” 4:42
4. “Old D-35” 5:55
5. “American Stooge” 6:05
6. “Where the Beauty Is” 3:51
7. “Nocturne” 6:16
8. “Secret Keepers” 3:23
9. “Asking for a Friend” 5:13
10. “Everybody’s Got Something” 5:19
11. “Between the Dirt and the Stars” 7:43

Thursday 4pm ET: Feature Artist – Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter’s first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Carpenter’s most successful album to date remains 1992’s Come On Come On, which yielded seven charting country singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the US for sales exceeding four million copies. She followed it with Stones in the Road (1994) and A Place in the World (1996), which both featured hit singles. In the 2000s, Carpenter’s albums departed both thematically and musically from her early work, becoming less radio-friendly and more focused on societal and political issues. In 2007, she released The Calling. She followed that with The Age of Miracles (2010), Ashes and Roses (2012) and the orchestral album, Songs From the Movie (2014).

Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which she received from 1992 to 1995. She has sold more than 12 million records worldwide. On October 7, 2012, Carpenter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Carpenter has performed on television shows such as Late Night with David Letterman and Austin City Limits and on radio shows such as The Diane Rehm Show. She also tours frequently, returning to Washington almost every summer to perform at Wolf Trap.

She is a direct descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin, United States Chief Justice John Marshall and a fifth cousin of the late singer and humanitarian Harry Chapin (along with his brothers Tom and Steve).

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Sunday 9pm: Feature LP: Mary Chapin Carpenter – Shooting Straight in the Dark (1990) @M_CCarpenter

Shooting Straight in the Dark is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s third studio album. It was a #11 Country Album on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Four of its tracks became Billboard Hot Country Songs hits: “You Win Again” at #16, “Right Now” at #15, “Down at the Twist and Shout” at #2, and “Going Out Tonight” at #14. Members of the Cajun band BeauSoleil provide guest instrumentation on “Down at the Twist and Shout”. Shawn Colvin provided backing vocals on three of the album’s songs.

Click here for album contents from Wikipedia

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