Lucinda has had a long and productive career, still turning out excellent albums. Mary CC seems to have dropped off the face of the earth (or at least country radio) since she hit it big in the 90’s.
“Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which she received from 1992 to 1995. She has sold more than 12 million records worldwide. On October 7, 2012, Mary Chapin Carpenter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.”
But you’re right. She’s been recording all along, but after the mid-90s, she seems to have lost the knack of coming up with songs with a hook in them.
Kind of makes you wonder which career you would rather have, one where you were on top of the world for four or five years but then never come close to those heights or a long steady thirty year career with quite a few awards and honors.
That’s a great question, David. I think if it were me,
I’d take the five years on top, save my money and do exactly what I want for the rest of my life. Hopefully that’s what MCC is doing.
On the other hand maybe that’s what Lucinda Williams seems to be doing too, without ever having reached the heights that MCC did.
May 7th, 2018 at 8:41 pm
Lucinda has had a long and productive career, still turning out excellent albums. Mary CC seems to have dropped off the face of the earth (or at least country radio) since she hit it big in the 90’s.
May 7th, 2018 at 9:49 pm
From Wikipedia:
“Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which she received from 1992 to 1995. She has sold more than 12 million records worldwide. On October 7, 2012, Mary Chapin Carpenter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.”
But you’re right. She’s been recording all along, but after the mid-90s, she seems to have lost the knack of coming up with songs with a hook in them.
May 8th, 2018 at 5:45 am
Love Lucinda. We saw her last year and are seeing her again this year, with Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam.
May 8th, 2018 at 4:32 pm
Bonus video: “Passionate Kisses.”
May 8th, 2018 at 8:33 pm
Kind of makes you wonder which career you would rather have, one where you were on top of the world for four or five years but then never come close to those heights or a long steady thirty year career with quite a few awards and honors.
May 8th, 2018 at 11:43 pm
That’s a great question, David. I think if it were me,
I’d take the five years on top, save my money and do exactly what I want for the rest of my life. Hopefully that’s what MCC is doing.
On the other hand maybe that’s what Lucinda Williams seems to be doing too, without ever having reached the heights that MCC did.