# Mary Chapin Carpenter Round Robin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838 "2004-04-02T02:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/1 "2004-04-02T02:59:39Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Saracen\_Pig\_Spartan\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Saracen\_Pig\_Spartan\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saracen_Pig_Spartan_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/2 "2004-04-02T03:11:45Z")
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 . It was astonishingly good. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/3 "2004-04-02T03:28:35Z")
Welcome to the SDMB **Saracen Pig! Spartan Dog!** 🙂 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: ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/4 "2004-04-02T03:31:40Z")
My favourite cover is “Grow Old With Me” which I first heard on Working Class Hero a tribute album to John Lennon but is now on Party Doll… She really has a song for every mood, and that’s the one for sobbing at weddings. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/5 "2004-04-02T03:37:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/6 "2004-04-02T04:47:42Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I had no idea she was anything more than one (or two?) hit wonder. _steps to the side to avoid the lightening strikes, while thinking “Og, am I that old already at 29??.”_ Mary is truly a genre-transcending talent. You don’t have to like country music to like her. Give her a listen, now that you’re not being forced to. 😉 [MCC’s official bio](http://www.marychapincarpenter.com/marybioindex2.html) and [infoplease.com](http://infoplease.com) says: > [@](#): > > Country singer and songwriter whose well-known hits include “How Do” (1989) and “ I Feel Lucky” (1993). A graduate of Brown University (1981) and New Jersey native, Carpenter proved you don’t have to be from Nashville to crank out country hits. She has won best female vocalist awards from the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music. Carpenter had been playing in Washington D.C. clubs for ten years winning several Washington Area Music Awards (known as the Wammies), before signing with Columbia Nashville for her first album, Hometown Girl, in 1987. Other albums include Come On Come On (1992), Stones in the Road (1994) which was awarded a Grammy for Best Country Album in 1995, and A Place in the World (1996). The albums missing from that are: [ul] [li]Party Doll and other favorites 1999[/li][li]time_sex_love 2001[/li][/ul] I personally didn’t fall in love with time_sex_love, 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. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/7 "2004-04-02T05:30:17Z")
She’s a country artist? 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? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Saracen\_Pig\_Spartan\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Saracen\_Pig\_Spartan\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saracen_Pig_Spartan_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/8 "2004-04-02T16:35:12Z")
**honeydewgrrl** , Sorry about that. You do know that she has a new album that is being released on April 27, 2004. It’s called Between Here And Gone. I love “_I Am a Town_” and _“Come On, Come On”_. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/9 "2004-04-02T16:51:25Z")
Aww, **Time_Sex_Love** \* has one of my favorite MCC songs, _The Dreaming Road_ : > [@](#): > > I loved you more than life and I guess that’s why I died > When you would not love me back I couldn’t survive > And so the girl I was, turned into someone else > Keeping to myself and from the light > I wasn’t odd or strange, just quietly rearranged > Sometimes the biggest change stays out of sight 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](http://adamschneider.net/music/mcc/index.html) 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). ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-chapin-carpenter-round-robin/237838/10 "2004-04-03T04:27:17Z")
> [@](#): > > I just saw MCC in a guitar pull with Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, and Dar Williams. I hate you. 😛