The cascading rhythms and flowing melodies of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s new album wash over us, bathing us in their sparkling splendor so that we emerge from these waters cleansed of illusions about ourselves and the world around us. The songs […]
A feeling that has frequently dominated Mary Chapin Carpenter’s shows is reflection. An artist who bares her soul through her songs sends audiences home musing over the emotions she so lucidly expressed. Reflection was the theme of Carpenter’s London appearance, […]
Here’s a podcast on the recent Americana Music Association UK Awards show in London earlier this month. Included in the podcast are songs by Lewis and Leigh, Sam Outlaw, Jim Lauderdale and Steepways. Please feel free to share your feedback in the comments […]
It may not be in quite the same league as the way young Brits like The Rolling Stones and Cream re-introduced Americans to their own blues heritage back in the Sixties and Seventies, but is the UK now exporting Americana […]
My greatest impression of this show demonstrated by all performers is the purity of the musician’s craft. Openers Applewood Road’s harmonies, Mary Chapin Carpenter’s songs and voice as well as the way the band supported her and displayed their own […]
This album has been out a couple of months. It has already been reviewed here in ND although I’d say it’s a review that can best be characterised as damning with faint praise. I think it’s a record that deserves […]
As I continue to spotlight some amazingly dedicated radio programmers from other countries, Dutch DJ Jos Van den Boom is the first to mention the universal, worldwide question of what to do with all the CDs we accumulate. Bill Frater: Where […]
Mary Chapin Carpenter may be best known for her recording of Lucinda Williams’ “Passionate Kisses” – a lighthearted, somewhat hopeful tune about love and fidelity. But more than two decades into her career, the singer-songwriter is unafraid of tearing into life’s […]
The fourteenth album from Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Things That We Are Made Of (out May 6 on Lambent Light Records/Thirty Tigers) sounds like a coming-of-age album for the middle-aged. As actress Bette Davis famously said, “Growing old isn’t for sissies,” […]
Mary Chapin Carpenter 4/4/15 Fox Theatre Tucson, AZ
