![]() ![]() For so long I had been following one path but the changes that come with growing older has opened up a new way of seeing and experiencing the world, from a deeper place. In the last few years, I feel as if my life has altered its compass readings. “Farther Along And Further In” is about recognizing that something has changed, gradually but distinctly. I think many creative people have some sort of thing they do, to help them plug in to a different place. My brain can go anywhere it wants that just feels very different than being tethered to the kitchen table. It brings me happiness and solace to be in nature, losing myself, but it’s also very much about working things out. They just took so many different paths to arrive at their finished selves. ![]() Well, all of them took their various turns and chalked up miles along the way but “Farther Along And Further In,” and “Nocturne” – there is no way those two songs in particular could have been written without walking. So, I suppose I could say there are many themes, but they all come back to that initial idea that we are all constantly “becoming” through art and expression.ĭid any particular song on the album spring from song-walking? They arrived from looking outward as much as inward, speaking to life changes, growing older, politics, compassion, #metoo, heartbreak, empathy, the power of memory, time and place. No sugar coating, the songs are very personal and they’re difficult in some ways, and definitely come from places of pain and self-illumination, but also places of joy, discovery and the rewards of self- knowledge. It’s certainly what makes me want to still write songs. To be always a student of art and music and life, as she says, that, to me, is what makes life worth living. She wrote a deeply insightful one in which she said, “We are all in the process of becoming.” That doesn’t stop at a certain age. The writer Margaret Renkl contributes regular columns about lots of different things to The New York Times. Is there a particular theme for this album? Below she reveals some of the inspiration behind The Dirt And The Stars. As one of just 15 women voted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, with over 15 million albums sold, 5 Grammy awards (from 15 nominations) and the recipient of two CMA and ACM awards, Carpenter’s now-classic hits include “I Feel Lucky,” “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” and “The Hard Way.” Produced by Ethan Johns (Ray LaMontagne, Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon) and recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath, in southwest England, The Dirt And The Stars marks Carpenter’s first collection of all-new material since 2016’s The Things That We Are Made Of. Written at her rural Virginia farmhouse before stay-at-home orders became the “new normal,” the songs celebrate invaluable experiences and irreplaceable wisdom, while also advocating exploration of the best in all of us. Five-time Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter’s 15th studio album, The Dirt And The Stars, finds the singer-songwriter pondering life’s intimate, personal moments and exploring its most universally challenging questions at an unprecedented time. ![]()
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