Personal History (Vinyl) - By: Mary Chapin Carpenter - Model Number: LLR0051

Description

I started writing the songs on this album as the pandemic began winding down; the titular song What Did You Miss� pointed the way forward, with its final verse: I™ve been writing it down/song by song/as a personal history� when imagining this collection of songs as memoir, and how the wisdom that comes with growing older becomes a north star, whether one is celebrating life™s joys or navigating life™s inevitable losses.

From the first verse of Paint + Turpentine� about sitting in the dark of the Birchmere Music Hall watching Guy Clark teach a master class in songwriting and story telling, to coming to terms with how later life turned out in Girl and Her Dog�, to inventorying what matters in The Saving Things� to discovering the wisdom in words and phrases that we usually roll our eyes towards in Say It Anyway�, it is my hope that these songs allow the listener to come away not only with a musical sketch of my life from young adulthood on, but also an affirming reflection of their own life as well.

Label
Lambent Light Records

Tracks & Genre

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