With hits like \u201cPassionate Kisses,\u201d \u201cI Feel Lucky,\u201d and \u201cHe Thinks He\u2019ll Keep Her,\u201d Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five Grammys\u00ae (with 18 nominations), two Country Music Association Awards, and two Academy of Country Music Awards. She is one of only 15 female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.\u202fOver the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has sold more than 16 million records.\u202fIn 2020,\u202fshe recorded two albums: <\/span>The Dirt And The Stars<\/span><\/i>, released in August 2020, and <\/span>One Night Lonely<\/span><\/i>, recorded live without an audience at the legendary Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Virginia during the COVID-19 shutdown and nominated for the 2022 Grammy\u00ae for Best Folk Album.<\/span><\/p>\n The New York Times<\/span><\/i> describes her music as \u201can unclassifiable hybrid of pop, folk and country that she performs in the low, steady voice of someone confiding her thoughts in a journal,\u201d adding that her voice is \u201cmade to engage in hushed heart-to-heart all-night conversations about things that really matter.\u201d And <\/span>Salt Lake Magazine<\/span><\/i> describes her \u201cemotionally intelligent country music\u201d as \u201csometimes boisterous and fun and other times introspective and socially-conscious \u2026 a great blend of smart and sassy.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of <\/span>The Dirt And The Stars<\/span><\/i>\u2014produced by\u202fEthan Johns\u202f(Ray LaMontagne, Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon) and recorded entirely live at Peter Gabriel\u2019s Real World Studios in Bath, England\u2014Carpenter quotes the writer Margaret Renkl. \u201c\u2018We are all in the process of becoming.\u2019 That doesn\u2019t stop at a certain age,\u201d Carpenter says. \u201cTo be always a student of art and music and life, as she says, that, to me, is what makes life worth living. The songs are very personal and they\u2019re difficult in some ways\u2014and definitely come from places of pain and self-illumination, but also places of joy, discovery, and the rewards of self- knowledge. 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. 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