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Mary Chapin Carpenter Shooting Straight in the Dark

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CD Details

  • Released: May 29, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Sbme Special Mkts.

Entertainment Reviews:

Audio Magazine (1/91) - Sound A / Performance A - "...keen observation and excellent storytelling...Carpenter's songwriting is disarmingly open and mature. Her singing is excellent, by turns rueful and sassy, smart and sad, winsome and spiteful..."

Tracks:

  • 1.Going out Tonight
  • 2.Right Now
  • 3.The More Things Change
  • 4.When She's Gone
  • 5.Middle Ground
  • 6.Can't Take Love for Granted
  • 7.Down at the Twist and Shout
  • 8.Halley Came to Jackson
  • 9.What You Didn't Say
  • 10.You Win Again
  • 11.The Moon and St. Christopher

Product Description:

Personnel: Mary Chapin Carpenter (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Jennings (acoustic & electric guitar, synthesizer, bass, background vocals); Matt Rollings (acoustic guitar, piano); Michael Doucet, Mark O'Connor (fiddle); John McCutcheon (hammered dulcimer); Jimmy Breaux (accordion); Don Dixon (bass, background vocals); Rico Petruccelli (bass); Robbie Magruder, Dave Palamar, Vince Santoro (drums); Billy Ware (percussion); Marti Jones, Mike Cotter, Herb Pederson (background vocals).
Producers: John Jennings, Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Recorded at Bias Studios, Springfield, Virginia and Hometone Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
SHOOTING STRAIGHT IN THE DARK, the follow-up to STATE OF THE HEART, proves that Mary Chapin Carpenter's successful second album was no fluke. Here Carpenter sticks with a similar stylistic template. Songs such as "Right Now" and "Down at the Twist and Shout," the Cajun-flavored hit featuring great guest work by members of Beausoleil, are done in a recognizable C&W style.
The rest of the album, however, features introspective and highly literate singer/songwriter folk ("Halley Came to Jackson" is a lovely extended metaphor about family tradition) and late-'70s Fleetwood Mac-style pop. "You Win Again" and "Middle Ground" neatly combine fat pop-chorus hooks with Carpenter's mildly feminist lyrical bent.

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  • Sales Rank: 23,337
  • UPC: 886970858724
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