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Americana, roots. 

Ik vind het haar beste album ooit en ik en al heel lang fan. Persoonlijk, emotioneel, mooi, uitnodigend om mee te reizen.

My introduction to Mary Chapin Carpenter was with a song called “This Shirt.” There was something special about it. Maybe I’m sentimental, but it was a song that perfectly suited anyone who needed to relate to something. This certainly was relatable & very Mary Chapin Carpenter. The Princeton, NJ native has had other songs beginning in 1987 with similar heartstrings & she, like Carrie Newcomer, Nancy Griffith, Kris McKay (“If Ever You Need Me”) & New Zealand country singer Donna Dean (“What Am I Gonna Do?”) continues to hit all the reflective, reminiscing & sentimental notes that draw listeners like magnets.

This latest LP from the multiple Grammy-winning artist is her 11-track, 17th album, Personal History (Drops June 6/Thirty Tigers) that begins with another “This Shirt” quite impressively. “What Did You Miss?” For some, it’s a 2-tissue song because her voice is soaked in sincerity & poignancy. It’s not something a vocal coach can teach an aspiring vocalist. You can learn vocal intonations, improve range, & apply the important tonalities, but that sincerity in the voice has to come from the soul. Mary Chapin’s been doing it for years.

The album was recorded live at Peter Gabriel’s Real-World Studios in England & is more autobiographical than usual. Produced by Josh Kaufman (guitar/organ/harmonium/harmonica). The instrumentation is fairly spare, with little that is controversial. “Girl & Her Dog” is another poignant tune. The choice of words is far from the basic cliches of many singer-songwriters.

Whereas “The Saving Things” is a nice song, with well-written lyrics, it does have shades of the melody from The Band’s “Book Faded Brown,” by Rick Danko. The tantalizing “Hello, My Name Is,” has a wonderful Herb Alpert-type trumpet with a Burt Bacharach-arrangement style. It enlivens the tune since we don’t hear that type of melodic trumpet as much as we did in the ‘60s. Mary Chapin certainly enjoys shuffling her musical surprises around.

Following the previous trumpet-lite song is “Bitter Ender” with a Dylan-soft harmonica in a more energetic melody. Nice to hear Mary Chapin get a little saucy with her words, too. “The Night We Never Met” taps into a George Gershwin-Hoagy Carmichael-Cole Porter vein ingeniously. The tune is retro & has an easy-listening charm. Lovely tune.

The album concludes with Mary Chapin’s signature emotional measure in “Say It Anyway” — another moving piece…until next time.

Tracks:
01 What Did You Miss
02 Paint + Turpentine
03 New Religion
04 Girl And Her Dog
05 The Saving Things
06 Hello My Name Is
07 Bitter Ender
08 The Night We Never Met
09 Home Is A Song
10 Say It Anyway
11 Coda

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_qEyFOgIc