What could be better than a new Mary Chapin Carpenter song? Tough one – but maybe a new Mary Chapin Carpenter song that presages a new album and features Anaïs Mitchell of…oh, you all know of what. Well, ‘Home Is A Song‘ is that very new song – it comes from Carpenter’s 17th album, ‘Personal History’, which was produced by Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman and recorded live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath. Across the eleven tracks, Carpenter presents a set of songs more autobiographical than any collection that has come before. Carpenter shares, “A novel that I’ve loved for years is My Name is Lucy Barton, written by Elizabeth Strout. There’s this moment where the main character is taking a creative writing course, and her teacher says to her, ‘You will only have one story. You will write your one story in many ways.’ I remember reading that line and taking an audible breath. In that moment, I said out loud to no one, ‘Oh, that’s what the songs are.’”
