The Alternate Root - Discover Roots & Americana Music
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • Top 100 Albums 2020
    • It's All Music Radio
    • Touring In Place
    • All Reviews/Archives
    • On The Radar
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
    • Record Collection
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact

reviews

mary chapin carpenter the dirt and the stars

8/15/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
​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)
 
Listen and buy the music of Mary Chapin Carpenter from AMAZON
For more information, please visit the Mary Chapin Carpenter website
 
 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017

Picture

    subscribe to our newsletter

Submit

To submit music, please mail a copy of your CD to the following address:
Danny McCloskey
The Alternate Root
1717 East Vista Chino
Ste A7 PMB 302
Palm Springs, CA 92262

Contact Us

    we do not share email addresses

Submit

©2021 The Alternate Root All Rights Reserved
website by Jim Cortez jctez12@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • Top 100 Albums 2020
    • It's All Music Radio
    • Touring In Place
    • All Reviews/Archives
    • On The Radar
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
    • Record Collection
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact