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Mary Chapin Carpenter

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.


— Mary Chapin Carpenter


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Carpenter's ninth studio album The Calling was released in 2007 by Rounder Records' rock/pop imprint Zoë and featured commentary about contemporary politics including reactions to the impact of Hurricane Katrina ("Houston") and the agreement with the Dixie Chicks ("On With the Song"). Carpenter was the author of a biweekly column in the Washington Times from December 2008 to March 2009 in which Mary Chapin Carpenter discussed topics related to music and politics. The album received some of the best reviews of Carpenter's career.

She followed that with The Age of Miracles in April 2010. Carpenter's first album 1987's Hometown Girl did not produce any singles although 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts. Her most acclaimed and most topical album to date The Calling was released in March 2007.

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