Sunday, March 16, 2025

Mary Chapin Carpenter - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: BBC Music Live Festival, Barbican Centre, York, Britain, 5-24-2001

Here's another BBC concert by singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. It's the third out of four I plan on posting.

Just a few days after this concert, Carpenter released her studio album "Time* Sex* Love*." She'd had great success for all of the 1990s, but this album didn't do so well. The music was still as good as before: if you look at the crowd-sourced ratings website rateyourmusic.com, her rating for this album is on par with her 1990s albums. The problem was that she was marketed as a country artist, and she was steadily moving away from a country sound. So country music radio stations stopped playing her, but she didn't have a clearly identifiable new niche to fall into.  

Five of the songs here would appear on her new album: "Swept Away," "Whenever You're Ready," "The Dreaming Road," "The Long Way Home," and "Late for Your Life." Curiously, the lead single fro the new album, "Simple Life," wasn't included. However, I'd guess she played it but the BBC edited it out when they were cutting the concert to less than an hour.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 Passionate Kisses (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
02 The Hard Way (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
03 Swept Away (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
04 Whenever You're Ready (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
05 I Take My Chances (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
06 The Dreaming Road (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
07 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 Shut Up and Kiss Me (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
09 The Long Way Home (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
10 He Thinks He'll Keep Her (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
11 Late for Your Life (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/J8yrRlvx3OqAajM/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "Today Show" TV show some point in 2001.

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