Favorite tracks:
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I Feel Lucky
The Hard Way
I Am A Town
I Take My Chances
Rhythm Of The Blues
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.
Lyric Of The Day #19 (July 9, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxwqBJLU8A
Starting with:
Close the door,
light the light
We're stayin' home
tonight
And a chorus that begins:
We'll build a world of our own that no one else can
share
My all-time favorite Australian act was obviously 55 years ahead of its
time.