mary chapin carpenter the dirt and the stars

​Mary Chapin Carpenter (from the album The Dirt and The Stars available on Lambient Light Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
She’s got a list of accolades a mile long and is worthy of every last one. Grammys, a spot in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and a handful of Country Music Awards, Mary Chapin Carpenter is a Folkie with a crystal-clear croon, and has solidified, and continues to justify, her spot in the singer/songwriter world. Her latest tunes, collected in the recent release The Dirt and the Stars, were written before the world went on hold, a mellow offering that finds Mary Chapin Carpenter open and personal. “It’s Ok To Feel Sad” is a soundtrack for the pandemic. As she sings ‘its ok to be tired, fuck all the excuses, whatever’s required, there’s no day that’s useless’ she is channeling what are now universal feelings of not wasting a day. 
“All Broken Hearts Break Differently” is a piano ballad that ends with a minute of moody musical ambience and “Old D-35” uses a classic Martin guitar to be the centerpiece of a walk down memory lane. “American Stooge” is a Roots Rock groover and scathing lyrical examination of making the American dream come true via suckin’ up.  “Secret Keepers” dances around jangle Pop, while the first line of the album closer takes you back to wherever you were when you were seventeen, ‘ready to ride anywhere, the summer night sticks to my skin, and the beers gone to my head’. The cut, “Between the Dirt and the Stars”, also throws out props to Mick and Keith namechecking ‘Wild Horses’, giving that familiar hook the responsibility of being ‘everything you’ll ever know, is written in the choruses’. Mary Chapin Carpenter’s musical formula is that of acoustic balladeer. The Dirt and the Stars reminisces and ponders, a melodic, Rootsy walk through a photo album and one more drive in your best friends parents car.  (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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