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Mary-Chapin Carpenter is a Nashville artist who is stretching the boundaries of country music to embrace contemporary folk and rock. Carpenter’s intensely personal songs about rocky relationships and self-identity have earned a strong following on college and alternative radio stations, but they have also found their way into the country market and even onto the country top-forty charts. Richmond Times-Dispatch correspondent Gordon Ely noted that Carpenter, who writes her own material, "has a style that manages to combine the literariness of her Ivy League education with the emotional honesty and self-revelation that is the stock in trade of country music. In the process, she’s managed to dodge the glitz-and-glamour boys and maintain an air of unpretentiousness."

Sequined suits and cowboy boots are not part of Carpenter’s act. Nor does she often rely on the standard stock of country instruments as backup for her songs. Instead she performs in well-worn, comfortable clothing, with her own acoustic guitar work complimenting her arresting low-range vocals. "I don’t think of myself as country," Carpenter told the Wichita Eagle-Beacon. But, she added, "The truth is I was never really comfortable about being labeled as a folkie. For me, folk music means playing something traditional, or ethnic music. But when I played my music in clubs for years, I played contemporary music."

Mary-Chapin, whose name is a double moniker like Mary Jane, was born in Princeton, New Jersey. Her father was a prominent executive with Life magazine, so she grew up in comfortable circumstances. When she was still young the family moved to Washington, D.C., a city that has embraced her as one of its own. There she picked up the guitar and learned to play, influenced by her older sisters’ Beatles, Mamas and Papas, and Judy Collins albums.

Launched Performing Career
After she graduated from high school, Carpenter became very serious about music, spending long hours strumming her guitar and composing songs in the privacy of her room. She told the San Jose Mercury News that she never considered a career in music until her father prodded her in that direction. "He said, There’s a bar down the street; they have open-mike sessions; why don’t you go out and play at one of those things?’" she remembered. "That was the first time it occurred to me, frankly."

Carpenter attended Brown University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in American civilization. On the weekends and in the summers she performed, simply

as a hobby to earn spending money. Her repertory at the time was standard bar fare: top forty hits and oldies, with only an occasional original tune thrown in. Carpenter recalls these years as difficult ones—the late nights in pub settings led to excessive drinking. "I had a big problem," she told the San Jose Mercury News. "It was awful. I had to make a lifestyle change in a drastic way…. It’s still so painful to me to think about how I was."

Eventually Carpenter decided to play only in those places that would allow her to do her own material. She was fortunately situated in Washington, D.C., a stronghold for bluegrass, folk, and innovative acoustic music. By 1986 Carpenter was a local star, very much in demand in Washington’s busy clubs. With the help of sideman John Jennings, she assembled enough songs for a demo tape and secured a manager who would try to find her a recording contract in Nashville. A CBS executive liked the tape, signed Carpenter to the label, and allowed her a large measure of creative freedom in the studio.

Carpenter’s first album, Hometown Girl, was released in 1988. Her work was quickly—if somewhat dubiously—categorized as "contemporary country," similar in style and substance to the music of Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith. Carpenter remembered in the Wichita Eagle-Beacon that although Hometown Girl received positive reviews, it did not sell well. "If it weren’t for public radio, it wouldn’t have seen the light of day," she said. Even public radio provided her with a fan following, however, especially on college campuses.

Won Popular and Critical Acclaim
The breakthrough album for Carpenter was State of the Heart, released in 1989. Somewhat to her surprise, two cuts from the album—"Quittin’ Time" and "You Never Had It So Good"—shot up the country charts, and she was named best new female vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 1990. Carpenter made these strides without condescending to the so-called "traditional" country female vocalist sound. "The people in the country community made me feel accepted that you can be different," she told the Wichita Eagle-Beacon. "Outside Nashville, there’s a notion that country music is all cheating songs and beehive hairdos and they don’t allow you to be anything else. But you can see that they’re reaching out."

A Mary-Chapin Carpenter album may contain a wide variety of songs and styles, from Cajun-country to simple acoustic folk ballads to blue laments about love gone wrong. San Jose Mercury News correspondent Eliza Wing called Carpenter’s voice "a strong, straight-ahead instrument that sounds as though it’s used to talking out problems late into the night." The critic added that the artist’s songs, "whether they’re mournful, contemplative or angry, rely on country idioms even as they bend the genre."

Music Offers Woman’s Perspective
Carpenter admits that she uses songwriting as "self-therapy" to help expel her own personal melancholy over broken relationships and sundered friendships. Her music certainly offers a woman’s perspective on deep emotional issues, but her appeal cuts neatly across the gender gap. "I never set out to write songs to appeal to only one kind of person or gender," she told the Orlando Sentinel. "My characters tend to be single women—a lot of the songs I write are about me …—but the feelings I feel are feelings I know I share with a lot of men my age, too."

The acceptance in Nashville is particularly gratifying to Carpenter, since it has come on her own terms. "Country music is not what you wear or what kind of instruments are on your record," she told the Orlando Sentinel. "It’s a state of mind having to do with substance, not style."

Selected discography
Hometown Girl, CBS, 1988.
State of the Heart (includes "Quittin’ Time" and "You Never Had It So Good"), CBS, 1989.
Shooting Straight in the Dark, CBS, 1991.

Sources
Books
Vaughan, Andrew, Who’s Who in New Country Music, St. Martin’s, 1989.

Periodicals
Orlando Sentinel, November 23, 1990.
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 3, 1990.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 8, 1990.
San Jose Mercury News, March 22, 1991.
Wichita Eagle-Beacon, April 30, 1991.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter was part of a small movement of folk-influenced country singer/songwriters of the late '80s. Although many of these performers never achieved commercial success, Carpenter was able to channel her anti-Nashville approach into chart success and industry awards by the early '90s.

Carpenter was born and raised in Princeton, NJ, the daughter of a Life magazine executive; she spent two years of her childhood in Japan, where her father was launching the Asian edition of Life. Her mother had begun to play guitar during the folk explosion of the early '60s, and she gave her daughter a guitar when Mary became interested in music as a child. Carpenter played music during her high-school years, but she didn't actively pursue it as a career. In 1974 her family moved to Washington, D.C., where she became involved in the city's folk music scene. After graduating from high school in the mid-'70s, she spent a year traveling Europe; when she was finished, she enrolled at Brown University, where she was an American civilization major.

Following her college graduation, she became deeply involved in the Washington-area folk scene, performing a mixture of originals, contemporary singer/songwriter material, and pop covers. Carpenter met guitarist John Jennings during the early '80s and the pair began performing together. They eventually made a demo tape of their songs, which they sold at their concerts. The tape wound up at Columbia Records, and the label offered Carpenter an audition. By early 1987, Columbia had signed her as a recording artist, and her first album, Hometown Girl, was released that year.

Hometown Girl and its follow-up, State of the Heart (1989), earned her a dedicated cult following, as well as two Top Ten singles, "Never Had It So Good" and "Quittin' Time." Country radio was hesitant to play her soft, folky, feminist material, but she received good reviews and airplay on more progressive country stations, as well as college radio. Shooting Straight in the Dark, released in 1990, managed to break down a lot of the barriers that stood in her way. "Down at the Twist and Shout" became a number two single and the album sold well, setting the stage for her breakthrough album, 1992's Come on Come On.

Come on Come On signaled a slight change in direction for Carpenter -- although there were still folk songs, she felt freer to loosen up on honky tonk and country-rock songs, which resulted in several hit singles. Two of the singles from the album -- "I Feel Lucky" and "Passionate Kisses" -- hit number four, and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" became her first number one. Come on Come On would eventually sell over two million copies. Her fifth album, Stones in the Road, released in 1994, concentrated on the folkier material, but it was still a major success, selling over a million copies within its first six months of release. Place in the World was released in October 1996, and Time* Sex* Love* followed in spring 2001. Carpenter's tenth album, 2004's Between Here and Gone, was produced with pianist Matt Rollings. The Calling was issued in 2007 by Zoë Records. Zoë also released a holiday album from Carpenter, Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas, in the fall of 2008. A new studio album, The Age of Miracles, appeared early in 2010. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Background information
Born (1958-02-21) February 21, 1958 (age 54)
Princeton, New Jersey
United States
Genres Folk, Country, Rock
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar
Years active 1987–present
Labels Columbia, Zoe
Associated acts Terri Clark
Shawn Colvin
Joe Diffie
Joan Baez
Kathy Mattea
Radney Foster
Trisha Yearwood
Website www.marychapincarpenter.com

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American folk and country music singer, songwriter and musician. 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 U.S. 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. Her most acclaimed and most topical album to date, The Calling, was released in March 2007. She followed that with The Age of Miracles in April 2010.

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.[1] As of 2005, she had sold more than 12 million records.[2]

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 the popular outdoor venue Wolftrap.

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Biography

Early life

Carpenter was born in Princeton, New Jersey, to Chapin Carpenter Jr., a Life Magazine executive, and Mary Bowie Robertson. Carpenter lived in Japan from 1969 to 1971 before moving to Washington, D.C.[3] She attended Princeton Day School, a private coeducational prep school,[4] before graduating from The Taft School in 1976.[5]

Carpenter described her childhood as "pretty typical[ly] suburban," with her musical interests defined chiefly by her sisters' albums of artists such as The Mamas & the Papas, the Beatles, and Judy Collins.[6] When Carpenter was 16 her parents divorced, an event that affected Carpenter and that she wrote about in her song "House of Cards."[3] Carpenter spent much of her time in high school playing the guitar and piano; while at Princeton Day School, her "classmates threatened to cut her guitar strings if she played "Leaving on a Jet Plane" one more time."[7] Despite her interest in music, Carpenter never considered performing publicly until, shortly after graduating from Taft, her father suggested that she perform at a local open-mike bar, a stressful experience for the shy Carpenter, who recalled, "I thought I was going to barf."[8]

Carpenter graduated from Brown University in 1981 with a degree in American Civilization. Carpenter played some summer sets in Washington's music scene, where she met guitarist John Jennings, who would become her producer and long-time collaborator. However, she considered music a hobby and planned on getting a "real job."[6] She briefly quit performing, but after several job interviews decided to return to music. Carpenter was persuaded by Jennings to play original material instead of covers.[8] Within a few years, she landed a manager and recorded a demo tape that led to a deal with Columbia Records.[6]

Early records and "country" label

Carpenter's first album, Hometown Girl, was produced by John Jennings and was released in 1987. Though songs from Hometown Girl got play on public and college radio stations, it was not until Columbia began promoting Carpenter as a "country" artist that she found a wider audience.[9] For a long time, Carpenter was ambivalent about this pigeonholing, saying she preferred the term "singer-songwriter" or "slash rocker" (as in country/folk/rock). She told Rolling Stone in 1991, "I've never approached music from a categorization process, so to be a casualty of it is real disconcerting to me".[6]

Some music critics argue that Carpenter's style covers a range of influences even broader than those from "country" and "folk." Time critic Richard Corliss described the songs in her album A Place in the World as "reminiscent of early Beatles or rollicking Motown,"[10] and one reviewer of Time* Sex* Love* noted the "wash of Beach Boys-style harmonies...backwards guitar loops" and use of a sitar on one track,[11] all elements not commonly found on a country or folk album.

After 1989's State of the Heart, Carpenter released Shooting Straight in the Dark in 1990, which yielded her biggest single up to that point, the Grammy Award-winning "Down at the Twist and Shout". Two years later, Carpenter released the album that, to date, has been her biggest popular success, Come On Come On (1992). The album went quadruple platinum, remaining on the Country Top 100 list for more than 97 weeks,[1] and eventually spawned seven charting singles. Come On Come On was also critically acclaimed; The New York Times's Karen Schoemer wrote that Carpenter had "risen through the country ranks without flash or bravado: no big hair, sequined gowns, teary performances....Enriched with Ms. Carpenter's subtlety, Come On Come On grows stronger and prettier with every listen."[12]

The songs of Come On Come On had the qualities that would come to identify her work: humorous, fast-paced country-rock songs with themes of perseverance, desire, and independence, alternating with slow, introspective ballads that speak to social or relational issues.[13] "Passionate Kisses", a cover of fellow singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams's 1988 song, was the album's third single. Carpenter's version peaked on the U.S. Country chart at #4, and was the first of Carpenter's songs to cross over to mainstream pop and adult contemporary charts, charting at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #11 on Adult Contemporary.[14]

The sixth single on Come On Come On, "He Thinks He'll Keep Her", was Carpenter's biggest hit off the album, charting at #2 on Billboard's Country chart and at #1 on Radio & Records's Country chart.[14] Written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz, the fast-paced song follows a 36-year-old homemaker who leaves her husband, and was inspired by a 1970s series of Geritol commercials in which a man boasts of his wife's seemingly limitless energy and her many accomplishments, then concludes by saying, "My wife...I think I'll keep her." Carpenter said, "That line has always stuck with me. It's just such a joke."[15] The single received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year.

Continued 1990s success

In the wake of Come On Come On's success, Carpenter wrote songs for a variety of artists, including Joan Baez, who recorded "Stones in the Road" for her 1992 album Play Me Backwards after hearing Carpenter sing it live. Pop singer Cyndi Lauper co-wrote "Sally's Pigeons" with Carpenter and released it on her 1993 album Hat Full of Stars. Country singer Wynonna Judd recorded Carpenter's composition "Girls With Guitars" on her 1993 album Tell Me Why. Judd released the song as a single in 1994, in what Carpenter called "the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me as a songwriter,"[1] and it peaked on the U.S. Country chart at #10.[16] Later, Carpenter co-wrote "Where Are You Now," which Trisha Yearwood recorded on her 2000 album Real Live Woman; the song peaked on the Country chart at #45. In the 1990s, Carpenter also duetted with Shawn Colvin, a "longtime recording pal", and sang backup in Radney Foster's "Nobody Wins,"[17] Dolly Parton (on Parton's 1993 single "Romeo"), and Joan Baez on a 1995 live recording of "Diamonds & Rust." Carpenter also performed a number of concerts with Baez and the Indigo Girls as The Four Voices, during the mid- to late-1990s.

Carpenter followed Come On Come On with 1994's Stones in the Road, at which point USA Today wrote that "without sounding anything like a country star was previously expected to sound, [Carpenter]'s one of the genre's biggest stars."[3] Stones in the Road sold only around two million copies, but was a crossover success with non-country audiences.[17] Also in 1994, Carpenter contributed the song "Willie Short" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. Carpenter's sixth album, A Place in the World, was released in 1996 to "raves" from publications as varied as Time, People, Elle, the New York Post, and USA Today.[17] The Boston Globe found the album more "philosophical [and] heady" than her previous work, and quoted Carpenter as saying, "[A]ll I've wanted to get out of songwriting is a sense of growth....I'm not shying away from any issues or subjects. I don't feel there's anything I can't address."[17]

In 1996, Carpenter's cover of the John Lennon song "Grow Old With Me," from the Lennon tribute album Working Class Hero, became an Adult Contemporary chart hit. The song "10,000 Miles" was the signature track in the 1996 family film Fly Away Home.

In 1998, Carpenter was signed to write the music and lyrics for a planned Broadway musical adaptation of the 1953 western film Shane.[18] Producers proposed Shane to Carpenter after Dolly Parton, and then Garth Brooks, left the project. According to Carpenter, the producers singled out "songs like 'I Am a Town' and 'John Doe No. 24,' songs that are story songs, very character driven, as the key that made them want to see if this was something I was interested in. I was surprised by that, and intrigued."[19] Carpenter left the project in 2000.[20]

2000s work - Ashes and Roses

In 2001, Carpenter released her first studio album in five years, Time*Sex*Love. The New York Times wrote that Carpenter was "harder than ever to define stylistically," and described the album as a departure, "essentially a concept album about middle age."[21] In songs such as "The Long Way Home," Carpenter espoused taking life at one's own pace, rather than indulging in rampant goal-driven materialism.

Time*Sex*Love sold fewer copies than Carpenter's earlier work,[21] and yielded only one charting single, "Simple Life," which peaked on the U.S. Country chart at #53.[14] Carpenter explained that, "When the record was released, I really believed there were several radio-friendly songs...it has been since proven to me that is not exactly the case." [11]

In 2004, Carpenter released Between Here and Gone, a somber album that addressed events such as the events of September 11 and the death of singer-songwriter Dave Carter.[2][22] The album received some of the best reviews of Carpenter's career.

Carpenter's ninth studio album, The Calling, was released in 2007 by Rounder Records' rock/pop imprint Zoë and featured commentary about contemporary politics, including reactions to the impact of Hurricane Katrina ("Houston") and the agreement with the Dixie Chicks ("On With the Song"). In less than three months after its release, The Calling sold more than 100,000 copies in the US, without benefit of any substantial airplay on commercial country radio. This was followed by a Christmas album, Come Darkness, Come Light, which mixed original and traditional material, also on the Zoë label.[23]

Carpenter's latest studio album, The Age of Miracles was released on April 27, 2010.[24] It debuted at #28, her highest peak since 1996.

In late 2011, Carpenter announced via Facebook and Twitter that she is hard at work on a follow-up album to "The Age of Miracles." The beginning recording sessions were recorded at AIR Studios in London, England.

On February 14, 2012, Mary announced via her management on her official Facebook page, that her new album, Ashes and Roses, will be released on June 12, 2012. The album will have thirteen new songs: 01. Transcendental Reunion 02. What to Keep and What to Throw Away 03. The Swords We Carried 04. Another Home 05. Chasing What's Already Gone 06. Learning the World 07. I Tried Going West 08. Don't Need Much to Be Happy 09. Soul Companion (duet with James Taylor) 10. Old Love 11. New Years Day 12. Fading Away 13. Jericho.

Mary will embark on a North American tour upon release of the album. She is touring beforehand with her old friend Shawn Colvin in preparation for the solo American tour.

Initial Twitter reviews of the album have been enormously positive with one review labeling it as her "best and most personal work to date."

Personal life

Despite a series of relationships, including one with John Jennings, the media made much of Carpenter's single status throughout the nineties; in a 1994 profile, Entertainment Weekly even dubbed her "a spokes-singer for the thirtysomething single woman."[25] Carpenter has since married contractor Timmy Smith.[26] Throughout her career, she has actively supported various charities, including CARE and Habitat for Humanity, and has conducted fundraising concerts for such causes as the elimination of landmines.

Carpenter has struggled with periods of depression since childhood.[27] While on tour with her album The Calling in spring 2007, Carpenter experienced severe chest and back pain. She continued to perform until a bout of breathlessness took her to the ER, where she learned she had suffered a pulmonary embolism. Cancelling her summer tour to recover, Carpenter "felt that [she] had let everyone down" and fell into a depression before rediscovering "the learning curve of gratitude."[28] Carpenter spoke about the experience on National Public Radio's This I Believe program in June 2007.

Carpenter was the author of a biweekly column in the Washington Times from December 2008 to March 2009 in which she discussed topics related to music and politics.[29]

Awards

Academy of Country Music

Country Music Association

Grammy Awards

Discography

Main article: Mary Chapin Carpenter discography

References

  1. ^ a b c Harrington, Richard. "Mary Chapin Carpenter, Taking Her Time," The Washington Post, 1994-05-25.
  2. ^ a b Lehndorff, John. "Carpenter's new music comes from deep inside", Chicago Sun-Times, 2005-05-13. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
  3. ^ a b c Zimmerman, David. "Carpenter’s foundation: Country star true to her folk roots," USA Today, 1994-10-05.
  4. ^ Kallas, Anna. "HER PREP SCHOOL IS NOTABLE FOR ITS NOTABLES - Christopher Reeve and Mary Chapin Carpenter walked the same halls - oh, and so did the Menendez brothers.", Dayton Daily News, June 1, 1997. Accessed December 3, 2007. "Chris and I went to the same private school in New Jersey - Princeton Day School - as did Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Menendez brothers, but more about them later."
  5. ^ Schoemer, Karen. "No Hair Spray, No Spangles", The New York Times, August 1, 1993. Accessed December 3, 2007. "Born and reared in Princeton, N.J., one of four sisters whose father, Chapin Carpenter, worked for Life magazine, Carpenter is suburban to the core. What's more, she attended private schools, including the Taft School in Connecticut, and graduated from Brown University."
  6. ^ a b c d Wing, Eliza. "Country’s Unlikely Star: Bending the genre, Mary-Chapin Carpenter shoots straight for the top," Rolling Stone, 1991-03-21.
  7. ^ Duncan, Petie Oliphant, and Stuart Duncan. "100 Years of Theatre," speech given at the Princeton Day School Centennial Follies, October 1999. Reprinted in Princeton Day School Mame playbill, February 2000.
  8. ^ a b Harrington, Richard. "Carpenter, Building a Name: The Washington Area’s Singer-Songwriter & Her Label of Success," The Washington Post, 1989-06-11.
  9. ^ Corliss, Richard (1992-08-24). "Getting there the hard way". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976308,00.html. Retrieved 2007-02-04. 
  10. ^ Corliss, Richard (1996-11-11). "Ironic, don’tcha think?; Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin can teach their better-selling juniors a thing or two". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985526,00.html. Retrieved 2007-02-04. 
  11. ^ a b Abbott, Jim. "Chapin Carpenter is no longer sure if she can be called ‘country’." The Orlando Sentinel, 2001-08-03.
  12. ^ Schoemer, Karen (1992-08-09). "RECORDINGS VIEW: A Salute to the Quiet Heroines". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DE153CF93AA3575BC0A964958260. Retrieved 2007-03-28. 
  13. ^ Joyce, Mike. "Even After 10 Years, Surprises Remain; A Fond Look Back With Mary Chapin Carpenter," The Washington Post, 1999-05-31. Retrieved on 2007-11-29.
  14. ^ a b c Chart numbers are based on information from the online databases RIAA Gold & Platinum Database, the UK BPI Sales Database, and UK Every Hit.
  15. ^ Staff of WomaNews. "Smart Talk: Shortcuts," Chicago Tribune, 1992-09-06.
  16. ^ Wynonna Judd Artist Chart History, Billboard.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.
  17. ^ a b c d Morse, Steve. "A Better Place: Mary Chapin Carpenter’s new CD presents her eclectic philosophy," The Boston Globe, 1996-11-29.
  18. ^ "Entertainment: Shane comes back", BBC News, 1998-11-11. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.
  19. ^ Davis, John. T. "She's back -- without ever leaving", Austin American-Statesman, 1999-06-22.
  20. ^ Little Jo Team Sought to Pen New Shane Musical. Playbill.com (2000-02-17). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
  21. ^ a b Sack, Kevin (2001-08-14). "Confronting Middle Age With Songs And Pluck". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E1DB1E3FF937A2575BC0A9679C8B63. Retrieved 2007-03-28. 
  22. ^ "Mary Chapin Carpenter: A Thanksgiving Special", NPR All Things Considered, 2004-11-25. (Carpenter states: "Actually, I wrote this song after I learned about the passing of an extraordinary musician by the name of Dave Carter. He was a visionary songwriter, he was part of a duo called, Carter and Grammer...")
  23. ^ "Mary Chapin Carpenter Releases Christmas Album", CMT News
  24. ^ http://www.rounder.com/artist/news/detail.aspx?nid=4011&aid=25505
  25. ^ Kennedy, Dana (1994-11-11). "MUSIC NEWS: Not So Happy At Last". Entertainment Weekly. http://ew.com/ew/article/0,,304419,00.html. Retrieved 2007-03-28. 
  26. ^ Belcher, David. "A Storyteller Back at Her Craft," The New York Times, 2010-05-08.
  27. ^ "Country Music Star Mary Chapin Carpenter Talks About Struggle With Depression", Fox News, 2006-05-02. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
  28. ^ Carpenter, Mary Chapin. "The Learning Curve of Gratitude", Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, 24 June 2007. Retrieved on 27 November 2007.
  29. ^ washingtontimes.com[dead link]

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