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Thread #7416   Message #1830141
Posted By: GUEST,Eric
08-Sep-06 - 02:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: songs by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Subject: RE: Mary Chapin Carpenter Lyrics
If you want guitar tab as well try http://adamschneider.net/music/mcc/
Adam has 50 to 60 songs up there. I first heard of her when John Stewart mentioned that she was singing his "Runaway Train" in concert with a great arrangement by John Jennings. Roseanne Cash picked up on it and recorded it with a very similar arrangement and made it a no. 1 hit in the US country charts so MCC did not seem interested in recording it after that. I actually heard her sing through my interest in Nanci Griffith and they were on a US tv special [along with Roaeanne Cash] as new "folky" country stars. I have seen her here in the UK 2 or 3 times and much as I love her she seems to have got a little samey recently. Still, she has done some brilliant songs.

Eric