Albums That Should Exist: Mary Chapin Carpenter - Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Britain, 10-21-1993

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Britain, 10-21-1993

Mary Chapin Carpenter has been known as a folky singer songwriter type for a long time. But for the first half of the 1990s she was considered a country rock artist. For a long time, I was looking for an excellent sounding concert from those years. I finally found one, which only started being traded as a bootleg a few weeks ago. In this concert, she played with a fully band, and frequently rocked out. Normally, I'm all for mellow acoustic stuff, but in her case I wish she would rock a lot more.

This concerts dates to 1993. That's a significant time for her, because her "Come On Come On" album released the year before was the peak of her popularity, selling four million copies in the US. It has no less than seven hit singles on the country charts, and she plays most of those here.

This concert was recorded for a live radio broadcast in Britain. As such, it's professionally recorded. There was one snag though. Apparently, it was edited down to fit into an hour long time slot. So there probably were some missed songs, as well as some missed banter between songs.

However I made up for that a bit because it turns out there actually were two concerts recorded for live radio broadcast in Britain just two days apart, one in Glasgow and the other in Edinburgh. The same bootlegger recorded them both off the radio. I've compared the two shows, and found two songs played in Edinburgh that weren't played in Glasgow. So I've added those two to the end. If you include those songs, the concert totals an hour and ten minutes. That's not far off from the typical concert length of her musical genre at the time, which I would guess at an hour and twenty minutes to an hour and thirty minutes. So if there is some missing music (and there probably is), at least it's not that much.

01 I Feel Lucky (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
02 He Thinks He'll Keep Her (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
03 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
04 I'm Going Out Tonight (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
05 Rhythm of the Blues (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
06 Read My Lips (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
07 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 How Do (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
09 Only a Dream (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
10 Down at the Twist and Shout (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
11 The Hard Way (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
12 I Take My Chances (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
13 Passionate Kisses (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
14 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
15 Come On Come On (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
16 Hearts in Her Eyes (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
17 I Am a Town (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
18 Party Doll (Mary Chapin Carpenter)