Though she has preferred to maintain her own career as a singer-songwriter without riding her father's coattails, Deana Carter recognizes, like many others, that her father, Fred Carter Jr., has been one of the finest studio musicians in Nashville from the 1950s on, and one of the key architects of country-rock, thanks to his work with Bob Dylan, the Band, and others. THE CHAIN is Deana Carter's tribute to her father, a heartfelt covers album consisting solely of famous songs that her father played on, such as Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer" and Neil Young's "Old Man."