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Shooting Straight in the Dark is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by Columbia Records on October 9, 1990. It rose to No. 11 on the Billboard's Country Albums chart , with four of its tracks reaching the Hot Country Songs chart: " You Win Again " (No. 16), " Right Now " (No. 15), " Down at the ...
Album • Mary Chapin Carpenter • 1990. 11 songs • 42 minutes Shooting Straight in the Dark is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by...
[1] Carpenter entered the 1990s with her third album, Shooting Straight in the Dark, which was released in October 1990 and certified platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. Its third single "Down at the Twist and Shout" won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1992 and became a top 10 hit.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter was born February 21, 1958, in Princeton, New Jersey. Her father, Chapin Carpenter Jr., was an executive for Life magazine. When she was 12 years old, the family moved to Tokyo, Japan, and lived there for about two years, as her father was looking to begin an Asian edition of Life. Her mother, Mary Bowie Robertson, was a folk ...
1987–1991: Early years with Columbia Records
Jennings had originally planned to sign Carpenter to an independent label, but the owner of a Washington, D.C. nightclub submitted some of Carpenter's demos to a representative of Columbia Records' Nashville division. This led to her signing with that label in 1987, only two days before she was slated to sign the contract with the other independent label. Columbia released her debut album Hometown Girl in 1987. The label hyphenated her first name as "Mary-Chapin" to indicate that it was a com...
1992–1995: Come On Come On and Stones in the Road
Come On Come On, Carpenter's fourth Columbia album, was also her most commercially successful. A decade after its 1992 release, it was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), honoring shipments of four million copies in the United States. It also charted a total of seven singles between 1992 and 1994. First among these was "I Feel Lucky". Upon its release to country radio, it achieved a peak of number four on Hot Country Songs. The song was also a...
1996–1999: Continuation of Columbia years
In 1996, Carpenter recorded a song titled "Dreamland" for a multi-artist album of lullabies called 'Til Their Eyes Shine: The Lullaby Album. The same year HarperCollins published the song's lyrics in a children's book also titled Dreamland, with illustrations by Julia Noonan. All profits from sales of the book were donated to the Institute for Intercultural Understanding, a children's advocacy group. Her last studio album to be released in the 1990s was 1997's A Place in the World. As was the...
Carpenter has appeared on a number of works by other artists. One of her first guest appearances was on the Indigo Girls' 1990 album Nomads Indians Saints, where she provided vocals to the track "Hammer and a Nail". She did likewise to Colvin's "Climb on a Back That's Strong" and Radney Foster's "Nobody Wins", both from 1992. A year later, she join...
Carpenter's music is defined by her folk music influences and lyrical focus. Erlewine wrote that Carpenter "found favor on country radio in the 1980s and '90s by taking her emotionally intelligent songs to a mass audience." Of her 1980s albums, he stated that "Country radio was hesitant to play her soft, folky, feminist material, but she received g...
Carpenter was unmarried for most of her recording career. In a 1994 profile, Dana Kennedy of Entertainment Weekly referred to Carpenter as "a spokes-singer for the thirtysomething single woman". On June 1, 2002, she married Timmy Smith, a general contractor then working in Batesville, Virginia. Actress Sissy Spacek and singer Dave Matthews were in ...
Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards, three Academy of Country Music awards,and two Country Music Association awards.
Carpenter has released sixteen studio albums between 1987 and 2020. Studio albums 1. Hometown Girl(1987) 2. State of the Heart(1989) 3. Shooting Straight in the Dark(1990) 4. Come On Come On(1992) 5. Stones in the Road(1994) 6. A Place in the World(1996) 7. Time* Sex* Love*(2001) 8. Between Here and Gone(2004) 9. The Calling(2007) 10. Come Darkness...
Mary Chapin Carpenter at IMDbShooting Straight in the Dark is Mary Chapin Carpenter's third studio album. It was a #11 Country Album on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Four of its tracks became Billboard Hot Country Songs hits: "You Win Again" at #16, "Right Now" at #15, "Down at the Twist and Shout" at #2, and "Going Out Tonight" at #14.
Shawn Colvin provided backing vocals on three of the album's songs. Track listing. All songs written by Mary Chapin Carpenter; except where indicated. Personnel. Credits from album liner notes. Peter Bonta – acoustic guitar on "Down at the Twist and Shout", keyboards on "Can't Take Love for Granted", piano on "Halley Came to Jackson"
Shooting straight in the dark. Mary Chapin Carpenter. Catalog no.: JHX0739. Product: 1 compact disc. Order info: Columbia Records CK 46077. Genres: Country. Singer-songwriter. Released: July 1993. Total playing time: 0:42:12. Your rating: * Average: no ratings. Tracks. 30 seconds audio clips. 1. Going out tonight. 3:17. 2. Right now. 2:36. 3.
