Mary Chapin Carpenter looks for Miracles in April
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 – Mary Chapin Carpenter will be back with "The Age of Miracles" on April 27 on Zoe/Rounder Records. This will be Carpenter's first CD since "Come Darkness, Come Night," a holiday disc she did in 2008 where she wrote all the songs. Her last regular studio CD was 2007's "The Calling."
Recorded in Nashville, the 12-track album was produced by Carpenter and long-time collaborator Matt Rollings (Lyle Lovett, Keith Urban) and was recorded and mixed by Chuck Ainlay (Mark Knopfler, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson). Carpenter was backed by a band that includes Rollings (piano, B-3 organ), Russ Kunkel (drums), Duke Levine (electric and acoustic guitar), Glenn Worf (bass), Dan Dugmore (steel and 12 string guitar) and Eric Darken (percussion). The album also features guest vocals by Vince Gill on I Put My Ring Back On and Alison Krauss on I Was a Bird.
A national tour is planned surrounding the release.
More news for Mary Chapin Carpenter
- 02/10/25: Carpenter, Clark join forces
- 01/24/25: Brown, Myers, Springsteen, McNown drop new music
- 01/10/25: Carpenter, Fowlis, Polwart open up with new song
- 03/07/22: Carpenter slates summer tour, dates with Emmylou
- 08/07/20: Bryan, Carpenter unveil new sounds
- 07/10/20: Carpenter is out with "Secret Keepers"
- 06/12/20: Carpenter readies "The Dirt And The Stars"
- 04/09/19: Carpenter, Colvin set tour
CD reviews for Mary Chapin Carpenter
There is an air of quiet reflection on Mary Chapin Carpenter's 15th studio album. Although its 11 tracks were written and recorded prior to the global pandemic, "The Dirt and the Stars" is an appropriate artistic statement for these times - days in which socially-isolated people are left with more time to contemplate life and the human condition.
Recorded live at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, England under the watchful eye of producer Ethan Johns, Carpenter ...
Artists with Ivy League degrees are just like us, but they can see into the future a little ahead of time. Brown graduate Mary Chapin Carpenter was writing wry feminist anthems like "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" and "The Hard Way" over25 years ago. And even those songs were from her fourth studio album - Carpenter's full career spans since the late '80s. She's remained a critical fave from the start, but her luster as a country music ingenue has long worn off. ...
Mary Chapin Carpenter revisits 10 songs - not her greatest hits by any stretch - from her two-decade plus career with a twist. No guitars or anything else resembling her typical instrumentation (jazz drummer Peter Erskine contributes). Instead, Carpenter is often only backed by an orchestra on what is being billed as her debut orchestral record.
Carpenter recorded the disc at London's AIR Studios with a 63-piece orchestra and 15-voice choir, the latter being under the radar screen throughout. ...
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