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Nanci Griffith - 100% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
6 July 1953, Seguin, Texas, USA. This singer-songwriter brilliantly straddles the boundary between folk and country music, with occasional nods to the mainstream rock audience. Her mother was an amateur actress and her father a member of a barbershop quartet. They passed on their interest in performance to Nanci, and although she majored in education at the University of Tex Read more 
Kathy Mattea - 80% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
Kathleen Alice Mattea, 21 June 1959, Cross Lane, West Virginia, USA. During her teens, Mattea began playing with her guitar at church functions and, when she attended university, she joined a folk and bluegrass group, Pennsboro. She decided to go with the band leader to Nashville and, among several jobs, she worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Despite t Read more 
Shawn Colvin - 74% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
Shanna Colvin, 10 January 1956, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. A singer-songwriter in the tradition of her teen idol Joni Mitchell, Colvin was of considerable age before she recorded her first songs. Backed by fellow guitarist and songwriting partner John Leventhal (later a collaborator with Marc Cohn), her debut pulled together arresting material with an understated approac Read more 
Carrie Newcomer - 68% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
25 May 1958, Dowagiac, Michigan, USA. Bloomington, Indiana-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Carrie Newcomer grew up in a Quaker household in Chicago and later studied Fine Art and Education at Purdue University. In the mid-80s she played alongside guitarist Larry Smeyak and percussionist Dennis Leas in the folk trio Stone Soup, releasing two albums on her Windchime labe Read more 
Rosanne Cash - 68% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
24 May 1955, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The daughter of Johnny Cash from his first marriage to Vivian Liberto, Cash lived with her mother in California after her parents divorced in 1966. Perhaps inevitably, she returned to Nashville, where she studied drama at Vanderbilt University, before relocating to Los Angeles to study ‘method’ acting at Lee Strasberg’s In Read more 
Trisha Yearwood - 65% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
Patricia Lynn Yearwood, 19 September 1964, Monticello, Georgia, USA. During the mid-90s Yearwood became a figurehead of the new wave of highly creative female country singers, including Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea and Mary Chapin Carpenter, who breathed exciting new life into an old formula.In 1985, Yearwood started working as a session singer in Nashv Read more 
Patty Loveless - 62% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
Patricia Lee Ramey, 4 January 1957, Pikeville, Kentucky, USA. The youngest of eight children, she began to write songs and sing in local venues with her brother Roger, after the family relocated to Louisville. When she was 14 years old they visited Nashville, where her singing and songwriting so impressed the Wilburn Brothers (although they felt she was not mature enough to Read more 
Suzy Bogguss - 57% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
Suzy Kay Bogguss, 30 December 1956, Aledo, Illinois, USA. Bogguss grew up in a farming family that loved music but had diverse tastes: her father favoured country music, her mother big bands, and her brothers and sister the 60s hits. Bogguss gained a degree in art at Illinois State University, but sang in clubs and coffee houses to earn extra money. She included country song Read more Kim Richey - 56% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
1 December 1956, Zanesville, Ohio, USA. Country singer-songwriter Kim Richey has established an enviable reputation for the quality of her writing, earning credits for her work with Radney Foster (‘Nobody Wins’), George Ducas (‘Those Words We Said’) and Trisha Yearwood (‘Believe Me Baby (I Lied)’). Her own recording career began in earnest with Read more 
Eliza Gilkyson - 52% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
1950, Hollywood, California, USA. Singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson has enjoyed a long if not always fruitful career, although by the start of the new millennium she had begun to reap some much deserved critical and commercial acclaim.Gilkyson is from a musical family, with her late father, the noted performer and songwriter Terry Gilkyson enjoying a U Read more 
Cheryl Wheeler - 51% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
10 July 1951, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Wheeler was raised in Timonium, Maryland, and has been playing guitar since she was 10 years old. One of her first jobs was singing in a restaurant and working as a waitress - at the same time. In the late 70s, she was a familiar figure in the Newport folk clubs. Her first album was produced by singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards and sh Read more 
Beth Nielsen Chapman - 50% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
14 September 1956, Harlingen, Texas, USA. Nielsen Chapman sang harmony on Tanya Tucker’s 1988 US number 1 country single ‘Strong Enough To Bend’, which she wrote with Don Schlitz. She also sang harmony and wrote Willie Nelson’s 1989 US country number 1, ‘Nothing I Can Do It About It Now’. Her debut album for Reprise Records (following an earlier Read more 
Lucy Kaplansky - 49% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
2 February 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Kaplansky’s father was a professor of mathematics as well as an accomplished pianist, which gave his young daughter an equal grounding in academia and music. She became involved in the Chicago folk scene, and then moved up to New York in 1978 to catch the current folk revival. Kaplansky worked with another young singer, Shawn Col Read more 
Allison Moorer - 47% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
21 June 1972, Quantico, Alabama, USA. Country singer Allison Moorer became an instant celebrity in 1998 when she was heavily featured in the successful Robert Redford movie The Horse Whisperer. She performed her song ‘A Soft Place To Fall’ in its entirety as Redford danced with co-star Kristen Scott-Thomas. This was followed by the release of her debut album, Alaba Read more 
Lori McKenna - 47% match to Mary Chapin Carpenter
December 1968, Stoughton, Massachusetts, USA. Singing and playing guitar, McKenna has built a dedicated audience for her music, which falls into the area between folk and country. Although she was born and continues to live far away from the main centres of country music, McKenna has found ways to echo universal experience in the stories her songs tell. Writing her own mater Read more
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