Rambling Rhoads: 2020-07-05

As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Thursday, July 9, 2020

LP #35 Mary Chapin Carpenter – Come On Come On (1992)

Back in the days when country music radio welcomed everyone from Rhodes Scholars to Brown University graduates, Mary Chapin Carpenter had an amazing run of commercial success, hitting the top 20 of Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart 17 times between 1989 and 1995. Seven of those hits were from this album, and the album itself was her most commercially successful, selling over 4 million copies in the U.S. Most of the non-single tracks are great as well (especially “I Am A Town” and “Rhythm Of The Blues”), to the extent that I (regretfully) had to leave her cover of Mark Knopfler’s “The Bug” off of my list below.

Favorite tracks:

Passionate Kisses

He Thinks He'll Keep Her

I Feel Lucky

The Hard Way

I Am A Town

I Take My Chances

Rhythm Of The Blues