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Track Listing
1. Going Out Tonight
2. Right Now
3. More Things Change, The
4. When She's Gone
5. Middle Ground
6. Can't Take Love For Granted
7. Down at the Twist and Shout
8. Halley Came to Jackson
9. What You Didn't Say
10. You Win Again
11. Moon and St. Christopher, The - (with Shawn Colvin)
Album Notes
Personnel: Mary Chapin Carpenter (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Jennings (acoustic & electric guitar, synthesizer, bass, background vocals); Matt Rollings (acoustic guitar, piano); Michael Doucet, Mark O'Connor (fiddle); John McCutcheon (hammered dulcimer); Jimmy Breaux (accordion); Don Dixon (bass, background vocals); Rico Petruccelli (bass); Robbie Magruder, Dave Palamar, Vince Santoro (drums); Billy Ware (percussion); Marti Jones, Mike Cotter, Herb Pederson (background vocals).
Producers: John Jennings, Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Recorded at Bias Studios, Springfield, Virginia and Hometone Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
SHOOTING STRAIGHT IN THE DARK, the follow-up to STATE OF THE HEART, proves that Mary Chapin Carpenter's successful second album was no fluke. Here Carpenter sticks with a similar stylistic template. Songs such as "Right Now" and "Down at the Twist and Shout," the Cajun-flavored hit featuring great guest work by members of Beausoleil, are done in a recognizable C&W style.
The rest of the album, however, features introspective and highly literate singer/songwriter folk ("Halley Came to Jackson" is a lovely extended metaphor about family tradition) and late-'70s Fleetwood Mac-style pop. "You Win Again" and "Middle Ground" neatly combine fat pop-chorus hooks with Carpenter's mildly feminist lyrical bent.
Industry Reviews
Sound A / Performance A - ...keen observation and excellent storytelling...Carpenter's songwriting is disarmingly open and mature. Her singing is excellent, by turns rueful and sassy, smart and sad, winsome and spiteful...
Audio Magazine (01/01/1991)
Sound A / Performance A - ...keen observation and excellent storytelling...Carpenter's songwriting is disarmingly open and mature. Her singing is excellent, by turns rueful and sassy, smart and sad, winsome and spiteful...
Audio Magazine (01/01/1991)
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