First song you remember hearing: Quittin’ time (still one of my top 5)
Best song with special guest(s) vocal: He thinks he’ll keep her (w/ Indigo Girls)
Best song with special guest(s) instrumental: Down at the Twist and Shout (w/ BeauSoleil)
Best showcase of MCC’s vocal talent: Only a dream
Best cover: The Bug
Best overall song written by MCC (music): Down at the Twist and Shout
Best overall song written by MCC (lyrics): I am a town
Best overall song written by MCC (lyrics and music) : Why walk when you can fly
Best overall Album: Come On Come On
(There’s just something about the intersection of MCC, Dire Straights, the Indigo Girls, Joe Diffie, passionate kisses, and Pabst Blue Ribbon all on one album)
Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of my Top 5 Alltime Concerts I’ve Ever Been To, and I didn’t even like country music at the time.
My dad had gotten tickets to see her out at Wolftrap in Virginia. this was back in 1992-93-94, somewhere in there. It was in the summer.
Anyway, turned out that he couldn’t go, so he asked if I wanted the tickets. My best friend was over at the time and we both said, “Sure,” at the same time, my friend with a bit more enthusiasm then me.
So we drive out there, and the seats turned out to be fabulous.
FABULOUS.
2nd row, just ever so slightly stage right.
The opening act was BeauSoleil.
My friend and I spent the entire 2 1/2 hour concert on our feet .
I neglected to explain my OP, but what I’m fishing for are the selections that other dopers would make for the categories that I listed. So since you’ve been converted to the other Church of Mary, share your opinion about her best work.
She is one of my all time favorites, and yet I cannot seem to bring myself to see her in concert. I fear The Rapture. :eek:
Growing up in the early nineties to parents that listened to country, I was forced to listen to it (and liked it at the time) but the only two songs of hers I’m familiar with are “She Thinks He’ll Keep Her” and “Down at the Twist and Shout”, both of which I remember liking well enough.
I had no idea she was anything more than one (or two?) hit wonder.
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I personally didn’t fall in love with timesexlove, but I try not to think about that too much.
Of course I just saw on her tour page that she’s coming to Atlanta’s Chastain (my favorite larger venue…outdoor…you can bring your own little table wine/cheese/candles) so now of course I simply must go.
Seriously, she’s one of our favourites. Certainly, some of her songs don’t seem to be country, but I’ve never turned her off the radio because she’s “country.” She has a lot to say in her music, and I like to hear it. When my wife finally heard “Grow Old Along With Me,” she asked why we didn’t have it at our wedding.
Just wish my wife would stop going down to the corner for a Quick Pick, a pack of Camels, a burrito, and a Barq’s. She always walks, and as MCC says, why walk when you can fly?
Aww, TimeSexLove* has one of my favorite MCC songs, The Dreaming Road :
I just saw MCC in a guitar pull with Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, and Dar Williams. It was wonderful. The first I heard of her was from Come On, Come On and I listened to that CD over and over and over.
I like her uptempo stuff but the slower stuff seems to resound with me better.
About 5 years ago I found Adam Schneider’s website of guitar music for MCC (and some others) and he even figured out the tuning for a lot of the songs (a much more patient transcriber that I’d ever be).
