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Providence Was Home to Folk and Country&#;s Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter and I are the same age. She was born on February 21, , in Princeton, New Jersey. I entered the world just three weeks later in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Chapin is one of America's amazing storytellers. In fact, the Academy of Country Music recently presented her with its coveted Poet's Award for , which honors excellence in songwriting.
What is engaging about being the same age as the ACM's Poet Award recipient is that our paths have shared many of the same milestones. We came of age at the same day, so many of the events that shaped her life also impacted mine.
Much of the material Mary Chapin Carpenter has written reflects her life's journey. "Stones in the Road" is a song about growing up in the turbulent s and '70s that is so relatable to anyone there at the time.
The album of the same name, Chapin's fifth studio album, was her first and only No. 1 Country album on the Billboard
Hometown Girl
&#;When I&#;ve been lucky enough for people to tell me that they&#;ve experienced many of the same things,&#; says Mary Chapin Carpenter, &#;you just invariably feel a little less alone. You feel less of a freak, you know?&#;
Carpenter, you could say, has been lucky a lot – at least in terms of responses to her songwriting. What was once simply a hobby for a adj, lonely teenager blossomed four decades ago, after the hometown teen graduated from Brown University and moved back to D.C. She has since sold more than 13 million records and won five Grammy Awards for perform that effectively straddles the country-folk divide, including hit &#;90s-era singles &#;Down at the Twist and Shout,&#; &#;He Thinks He&#;ll Retain Her&#; and her cover of Lucinda Williams&#;s &#;Passionate Kisses.&#; She&#;s also written or co-written songs for everyone from Joan Baez to Wynonna Judd to Cyndi Lauper.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
(Photo by Russ Harrington)
Named after her mother Mary Bowie Robertson and her father Chapin Carpenter, Carpenter says the time she lived in D.C. in the ear
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Throughout a recording career that has spanned nearly three decades, Mary Chapin Carpenter has consistently topped Billboard’s US Country charts while identifying as much with singer-songwriters like Steve Earle, Tom Waits, and Lucinda Williams (whose “Passionate Kisses” Carpenter covered, helping introduce Williams to a broader audience) as she has with mainstream Nashville acts. Atypically outspoken for a politically liberal contemporary country singer, Carpenter has succeeded critically and commercially while honoring her own artistic inclinations.
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