Mary Chapin Carpenter

Songwriter, Performer - "Shut Up And Kiss Me," "He Thinks He'll Keep Her," "I Feel Lucky," Stones In The Road

Mary Chapin Carpenter has earned her five Grammy Awards and sold 13 million records in the first 20 years of her career. Carpenter's most recent release, The Calling is her second co-production with pianist Matt Rollings. The pair had initially worked together on Carpenter's 2004 disc, Between Here and Gone. Carpenter is renowned for such country chart staples as "I Feel Lucky," "Shut Up and Kiss Me" and "Down at the Twist and Shout." On The Calling, as in previous recordings, Carpenter confidently crosses boundaries of genre, incorporating elements of folk and rock as well as country into the mix. The Central Virginia-based Carpenter admits that songwriting "takes a long period of time for me. It's never a short, easy process," but this time, "I had a lot more songs than I can ever recall marching into the studio with, about 20 or 21."