The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Trisha Yearwood, Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls, Lee Roy Parnell
Legacy Recordings, 2003
1 CD
Catalogue #: 90772
EAN: 0827969077221
UPC: 827969077221
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Personnel includes: Mary-Chapin Carpenter (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Jennings (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Peter Bonta (acoustic guitar); Steuart Smith, Mike McAdam (electric guitar); Lee Roy Parnell (slide guitar); Mark O' Connor, Michael Duocet (fiddle); Beaumont Tench (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); John Jarvis, Matt Rollings (piano); Steve Nathan (Hammond B-3 organ); John Carol (keyboards); J.T. Brown (bass, background vocals); Don Dixon, Glenn Worf, Rico Petrucelli (bass); Edgar Meyer (double bass); Dave Mattacks (drums, percussion); Kenny Aronoff, Robbie Magruder (drums); Tom Roady (percussion); Trisha Yearwood, Shawn Colvin, The Indigo Girls, Garrison Starr (background vocals).
Producers: Mary-Chapin Carpenter, John Jennings, Blake Chancey, Mark Isham.
Compilation producer: Gregg Geller.
Recorded between 1989 & 2001. Includes liner notes by Jay Orr.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter came to country music in the 1980s from a "coffee-house folk" background, bringing with her the genre's brainy introspection. An easterner and a Princeton graduate, Carpenter is an unlikely country star, but hits such as "Down at the Twist and Shout," "I Feel Lucky," and "Shut Up and Kiss Me" demonstrate that her finger is squarely on the country audience's pulse
Trisha Yearwood
Often hailed as Linda Ronstadt's successor, Trisha Yearwood became one of the 1990s' most respected and popular country music artists by virtue of her magnificent voice and her choice of intelligent, quality material. She has the distinction of being the first female country singer to reach Number One on the country charts with a debut single. A multiple Grammy-winner, the versatile Yearwood has duetted with the likes of Aaron Neville, Don Henley and Garth Brooks, and for a time was married to Mavericks bassist Robert Reynolds.
Shawn Colvin
Grammy-winner Shawn Colvin came up on the East Coast folk scene in the '80s, finally scoring a major label deal toward the end of that decade. Despite consistently strong work centered around her resilient voice and folk-rock songwriting, she didn't hit it big until her 1996 album A FEW SMALL REPAIRS, which put her on the pop map, though the singer-songwriter crowd had been cooing her praises for years.
