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December 3, 1998

Mary Chapin Carpenter Plays the Diva

Solo Veteran Throws Musical Curveballs
December 2, 1998

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Hammerstein Ballroom, N.Y., November 21, 1998
July 18, 1997

Willie Nelson, Others To Perform On Heritage

Willie Nelson, Others To Perform On Heritage

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Party Doll And Other Favorites

Purists love to act like Merle Haggard was the last cool thing to happen to country music, but we lived through a golden age as recently as the early Nineties. Back then, Mary Chapin Carpenter was Nashville's proudest oddity and most unexpected icon -- a New Jerseyite with folkie roots, feminist lea...

1999 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Come On Come On

1992

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An Ivy League-educated singer/songwriter from the Northeast with a reflective, literate style of lyric writing, Mary Chapin Carpenter has always stopped short of mocking the sequined outfits, big hair, and simple romanticism often associated with country divas. Accordingly, Carpenter's music - which incorporates folk and rock textures as well as country - has been embraced by both Nashville and fa...

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