Ah Mary. Was it really almost 30 years ago? A career bursting with high points and one that has seen her move further and further away from the increasingly narrow field of vision that is the CMAs.
This classic clip features a very slim and young looking Vince Gill as CMA host and a horribly cheesy ad as inspiration for a song from Mary’s 1992 album ‘Come On Come On‘. It was an album that contained a number of songs such as ‘I Feel Lucky‘ and ‘PassionateKisses‘ that would become firmly established as classics in the Mary Chapin Carpenter songbook. It also featured a collaboration on the title track with her great friend and oft times touring companion Shawn Colvin.
The clip is particularly memorable for featuring four of country music’s greatest female vocalists of that era – Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, Kathy Mattea and Suzy Boguss. Looking back it seems now a golden period for female country artists.
From Mary Chapin Carpenter's most commercially successful album 'Come On Come On' comes the Grammy nominated 'He Thinks He'll Keep Her'. Recorded at the 1993 CMA awards this classic comes complete with a very youthful looking Vince Gill introducing and showing the piece of sexist cheese that inspired the song. It…
Like the majority of the artists in the ‘Essentials’ feature Mary Chapin Carpenter will be familiar to many. 35 years after her country leaning debut ‘Hometown Girl’ Carpenter continues to cement a reputation as one of the finest artists of her generation. Her five Grammys may date back to the…
Mary Chapin Carpenter had released 7 albums spanning 17 years by the time ‘Between Here and Gone’ was released in 2004. Over that time Carpenter had evolved out of the initial country label attached to her earliest albums into someone that the music industry, and American radio in particular, had…
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