Mary Chapin Carpenter
Princeton - New Jersey - United States

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records. Although her first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any charting singles, she broke through with 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark.

Carpenter's most successful album is 1992's Come On Come On, which accounted for seven singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the United States for shipments of four million copies. Follow-up Stones in the Road appeared two years later and won Carpenter the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, while certifying double platinum for shipments of two million copies. After a number of commercially unsuccessful albums throughout the first decade of the 21st century, she exited Columbia for Zoë Records. Her first album for this label was 2007's The Calling. Since leaving Zoë Records in 2015, Carpenter has recorded for her own Lambent Light label, distributed by Thirty Tigers.

Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards, from 18 nominations, including four consecutive wins in the category of Best Female Country Vocal Performance between 1992 and 1995. She has charted 27 times on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, with her 1994 single "Shut Up and Kiss Me" reaching number one. Her musical style takes influence from contemporary country and folk, with many of her songs including feminist themes. While largely composed of songs she wrote herself or with longtime producer John Jennings, her discography includes covers of Gene Vincent, Lucinda Williams, and Dire Straits.

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Personal History

Label: Lambent Light

Genres: Folk

Styles: Contemporary Folk, Alternative Folk

Songs on the Album

Track # Song Title Style Genre
1 What Did You Miss Alternative Folk Folk
2 Paint + Turpentine Alternative Folk Folk
3 New Religion Alternative Folk Folk
4 Girl and Her Dog Alternative Folk Folk
5 The Saving Things Alternative Folk Folk
6 Hello My Name is Alternative Folk Folk
7 Bitter Ender Alternative Folk Folk
8 The Night We Never Met Alternative Folk Folk
9 Home is a Song (feat. Anaïs Mitchell) Alternative Folk Folk
10 Say It Anyway Alternative Folk Folk
11 Coda Alternative Folk Folk

Looking for the Thread

Label: Lambent Light

Genres: Folk

Styles: Contemporary Folk

Songs on the Album

Track # Song Title Style Genre
1 Gràdh Geal Mo Chridhe - Contemporary Folk Folk
2 A Heart That Never Closes - Contemporary Folk Folk
3 Rebecca - Contemporary Folk Folk
4 Looking for the Thread - Contemporary Folk Folk
5 Hold Everything - Contemporary Folk Folk
6 Silver in the Blue - Contemporary Folk Folk
7 You Know Where You Are - Contemporary Folk Folk
8 Satellite - Contemporary Folk Folk
9 Buidheann Mo Chridhe Clann Ualrig - Contemporary Folk Folk
10 Send Love - Contemporary Folk Folk

The Dirt and the Stars

Label: Lambent Light

Genres: Rock, Folk, Country

Styles: Roots Rock, Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Country

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Sometimes Just the Sky

Label: Thirty Tigers

Genres: Folk

Styles: Contemporary Folk

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The Things That We Are Made of
Details

Label: Thirty Tigers

Genres: Folk, Country

Styles: Folk, Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Country

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Songs from the Movie

Label: Rounder

Genres: Folk, Country

Styles: Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Country

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Track # Song Title Style Genre
I Am a Town Contemporary Country Country

Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas

Label: Rounder

Genres: Holiday, Folk

Styles: Christmas, Contemporary Folk

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Unknown

Label: Unknown

Genres: Country, Folk

Styles: Country, Contemporary Folk

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